HELP w/ Nvidia Drivers not working.

Woohoopy

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I know this type of post is tedious, but I've tried everything. My new Nvidia Geforce 540m mxm graphics card was installed and originally detected as a VGA adapter. Luckily, windows managed to find the driver online and installed the 296.19 driver from WAY BACK about when the card was made in 2011. I want to install the 320.49 driver update, but the drivers, no matter if manually downloaded or automatically, never recognize my nvidia hardware and stop doing anything. I've tried uninstalling in safe mode and trying to reinstall and NOTHING. I've searched the web for hours and tried everything and NOTHING. Infact, I'm on my 4th system restore right now. Please, I need a way to bypass the hardware check or something. Help. Thanks.
-Postnote, it's an HP Touchsmart All in One, which wasn't originally designed for an mxm graphics card and Nvidia probably has no record of anyone using one. Luckily, the very similar HP Touchsmart elite 7320 does. Is there anyway of tricking it to think I have that computer?
 

Woohoopy

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Hey there, I realized the problem was that Nvidia stopped making drivers with the model ID for HP computers. So whenever I tried to download a driver, the hardware scan will always fail, UNLESS, I go back to 2XX.XX drivers which were the last ones HP "signed" so to speak. Pretty much a jerk move on HP's and Nvidia's part. If you want to get around this, you need to download the driver and MODDED INF file, ( a file that tricks the hardware scan), off of laptopvideo2go.com, and replace the inf in the driver with the downloaded inf. THE ONLY DOWNSIDE is that the most recent one for Windows 7 is like 305.XX. It didn't even run that well at all... But they have the latest for Windows 8 and XP if you're into that...