Reformatted, graphics card won't properly be discovered

[Redcow]

So I recently took a 3 year old HP and reformatted it, because my brother got a new PC. I have this HP hooked up to an HDTV now instead, but for some reason it won't get the proper graphics card drivers.

Basically, in device manager (I'm running Vista 32 bit), under display drivers I get : "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter".

That's not going to let me run any games..

I can see my monitor fine right now and I'm typing from the computer, it's just it doesn't know I have a Nvidia card.

I'm pretty sure the card is a Nvidia 7900, which I tried installing drivers from on their site. Doesn't work, because the drivers can't find any hardware to relate it to. I don't have the original CD.

This GPU worked fine before reformat. Games could be played. So I must be overlooking something.

[rampageturke]

-snip- bad reading

[gerbils_alt_2]

Did you try nvidia's auto driver search thing on their site, or did you just manually look for 7900 drivers?

[editline]07:23PM[/editline]

go here and try option 2
[url]http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index5.aspx?lang=en-us[/url]

[B1N4RY!]

If you have to, open up the computer and check the graphics card

[Redcow]

[QUOTE=gerbils_alt_2;21059986]Did you try nvidia's auto driver search thing on their site, or did you just manually look for 7900 drivers?

[editline]07:23PM[/editline]

go here and try option 2
[url]http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index5.aspx?lang=en-us[/url][/QUOTE]

I tried that. It won't pop up for the activex control thing for some reason. There's a motherboard detector and the activex controls pop up for that, so I think it's the site.

[rampageturke]

[QUOTE=Redcow;21060161]I tried that. It won't pop up for the activex control thing for some reason. There's a motherboard detector and the activex controls pop up for that, so I think it's the site.[/QUOTE]

dont use internet explorer

[Chris122990]

Since this is an OEM computer, it's possible that HP modified the card every so slightly that nVidia's drivers don't work.

Try searching HP's website for your computer and see if it lists video drivers there.