17 R4, 7th Gen, Nvidia GTX 1060 not showing

Question

Hey guys hope everyone is doing good. I am facing an issue, I cannot detect my Nvidia Nvidia GTX 1060 in Device Manager at all in this out of warranty 17 R4.

When I try to install the driver through Nvidia website, I get this error.

I really don't know what to do. Can please anyone help me? I am on unsupported Windows 11. I have gone through a lot of YouTube videos but none of them helped.

Mary G · Answer

You must use Dell's customized Nvidia driver with the laptop, not Nvidia's Desktop driver--if you actually have the Nvidia card in your computer. Your driver page at Dell does not have a windows 11 driver for your model. Try the Windows 10 driver--- Support for Alienware 17 R4 | Drivers & Downloads | Dell US

You might have to go back to Windows 10.

Tsoomro · Answer

I also tried it on unsupported Windows 7 and it didn't work.

crimsom · Answer

Hi @Tsoomro welcome to this free user-to-user Alienware laptop discussion forum.

Dell does not provide Window 11 drivers for the Alienware 17 R4.

Does the Intel® Driver & Support Assistant install the Windows 11 drivers for your discrete NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPU?

Tsoomro · Answer

Hi @crimsom  Nope it didn't i can't even see the graphic card in device manager and you can see above.

crimsom · Answer

Hi @Tsoomro thank you for sharing update.

Connect laptop's ethernet cable to internet. Visit Device Manager and delete all drivers with yellow triangle, then Restart (not Shut Down) to save changes. When window boots, it will try and install new drivers over the internet. Does this work?

JOcean · Answer

In addition to what the others have suggested, it appears that you need the chipset drivers installed. If Dell does not have them, Intel should

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