HP DV6745US, Nvidia 630M & Win7 (no drivers)

[dscudella]

I just bought a laptop, HP DV6745US which has a GeForce 630M in it. The laptop came with Win Vista Home Premium (per the COA sticker). I got it home, formatted the drive and put Win 7 Home Premium 64bit.

The problem is that Nvidia is saying I need to download the drivers straight from HP and HP is saying that Win 7 is not supported on my laptop.

Anyone got a work around?

 

[runswindows95]

I would download the drivers directly from http://www.nvidia.com.

 

[dscudella]

I would download the drivers directly from http://www.nvidia.com.

I tried that first of course, upon installation it says "unable to detect hardware". When I run the Nvidia drivers auto detect it says to contact HP and download drivers from them.

I've tried the official 306 and the beta 310, same deal.

 

[unreal9400]

Here are your PC specs- http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01296362&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=3646950
It's using NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M not 630M as you mention.
Try installing in compatibilty mode for Windows Vista.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-70238-2&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&os=2100&product=3646950&sw_lang=
Vista drivers should work i have tried before on my old Vista laptop using Vista drivers.

 

[dscudella]

I'll give a shot. Thank you

 

[dscudella]

Best answer selected by dscudella.

 

[dscudella]

Thank you Unreal9400, I could kiss you lol. Worked without any hiccups, Vista Compatibility Mode. I'm good to go.

Edit: This is why I thought it was 630M

 

[unreal9400]

You're welcome