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jhogan93
By jhogan93
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hey guys i have an old compaq with a 945gct-hm (livermore  motherboard. i got a gtx 550ti in it and it works great except the part where i need to update the driver. windows cant "see" it cpu-z can see it but no matter what i try i cant get it to update the driver. the bios allows me to choose gpu (onboard, pci, pci-e) but always changes back to pci. i update the bios to v5.25 but still same issues. plz help thanks

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CPU-Z is for CPUs only , you'll need to get GPU-Z. As for the OS, you cannot use Windows 7 any longer is it no longer support by Microsoft. You'll need to move to Windows 10. 

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