Two weeks ago I was having problems with my laptop and asked a friend to look into it. He reinstalled Windows Vista, but somehow left me without most of my drivers. So far, I've been able to reinstall most of them, but I'm still having trouble with my graph card. I have a HP dv6500, with an Nvidia GeForce 7300. I've tried to get the driver from Nvidia, but it says that I have no hardware which can use this driver. When going to my Hardware Manager, it calls my graph card a Standard VGA card.

This totally keeps me from installing games, video editing software or even watching videos: I always get the message that my graph card cannot accelerate.

I totally need help!

@johnnyvall did you get Driver Disc with your system.

If yes then kindly use that and install the driver.

That should get the card working

Sadly I'm fairly certain I do not have such a disc... Is there another way?

Okay, well unexpected problem: even in no fail mode, the Guru will not work. It only pops up a cmd window, which promptly closes, and then... nothing...

Also, how do I access the Event log?

Originally Posted by stoneys-nutz

To get to the Event Log, go to start > Administrator Tools > Event Viewer.

I found quite a buttload of errors: 2.8k. 2.7 of them were either 4375 or 4385 Servicing errors. What do I do with that info?

Originally Posted by stoneys-nutz

It may be worth checking the file system. Open a command prompt as administrator and type sfc/scannow press enter and let it scan, if errors are found you may need to run it again until clean.

Did so, and did not get anything!

Originally Posted by stoneys-nutz

Its better to download the drivers from the makers' site.

HP Pavilion dv6500 Entertainment Notebook PC series

Choose your OS and go to the download page, there, you will find all the drivers you need.

So totally working! Problem is solved!

Dude, where do you live, I have to go give you a giant smooch! Thank you so very much!