Arkvoodle

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October 25th, 2009 11:00

Help! My video drivers are missing!

Hello, I have an Inspiron E1505 and I have no idea what happened to my video drivers but now I can't close my laptop and open it without having to restart and I can't play the games I used to.. Can someone please help? I'm not really good with computers, by the way.:emotion-6:

  • The_Namek

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    Posted October 30th, 2009 18:00

    I use an app called DriverMax to identify what device drivers are needed when I do reinstalls on systems that have no documentation. You have a whole new set of drivers to install under Vista because the drivers you used for all your hardware in Windows XP aren't compatible with Vista. The Mobile Intel 945 Express Chipset driver your friend's program found is for the motherboard. If that one were for video it would've been identified as Intel 945GM Graphics Controller. What you need to do with the recovered file is reinstall it but do so after you download and install the Dell Notebook System Software from here.

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    Posted October 25th, 2009 15:00

    Click on the link  at the bottom and select .....

     

    Drivers & Downloads
    I'm looking for drivers and downloads.

    Enter your Service tag and download the video card from Dell.

    It will be the correct version, save it to your desktop. Close any

     open windows, double click the video driver and follow the

    prompts. ~Cindy~

    http://support.dell.com/support/index.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

  • Arkvoodle

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    Posted October 25th, 2009 15:00

    Can someone please help? I need this fixed ASAP!!

  • Arkvoodle

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    Posted October 25th, 2009 21:00

    I did not see that image in the link you posted?

  • Arkvoodle

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    Posted October 26th, 2009 05:00

    Oh, n evermind I see it. I don't see how I missed it!

    But, it says "There are no files to download. Please go to Drivers and Downloads to select file(s)."

     

    I'm confused now; Didn't I just download a file/driver?

  • Arkvoodle

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    Posted October 26th, 2009 21:00

    Can someone tell me why that message came up? My laptop is still having problems..

  • Arkvoodle

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    Posted October 28th, 2009 05:00

    Anyone?

  • The_Namek

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    Posted October 28th, 2009 11:00

    Arkvoodle,
    You'll need to determine what video adapter is in your computer before anyone can point you to the specific driver for it. The Inspiron E1505 can have either Intel integrated video or a card made by ATI or nVidia. To find out which one you have you need to go to Device Manager and expand the Display adapters branch.

  • Arkvoodle

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    Posted October 28th, 2009 14:00

    Umm, that whole section has been deleted, but in the other devices section it shows:

    Video Controller

    Video Controller (VGA Compatible)

     

    If it helps any, I have something called NVIDIA PhysX on my control Panel...

    Please respond ASAP.

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    Posted October 28th, 2009 21:00

    In that case you probably have the nVidia GeForce Go 7300. You didn't post what version of Windows you're running so here's a link to the Vista compatible driver and here's a link to the one for XP.