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ive worked on those switchable gpu asus ones

and they always show 2 gpus....that you install both drivers for...but your isn't

 

So I've been trying to fix it for 4 hours and then decided to update BIOS and it worked afterwards. So this is what helped me. Just an updated if anyone stumbles across the same issue.

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Hey everybody!

I've been trying Windows 10 for couple of weeks, and it's been great and all, but after it updated itself to build 9266 (or something like that) start button and whole Metro stuff stopped working and I rolled back to Windows 8 I had before.

After rolling back I was installing drivers as usually. While installing drivers for my Logitech MX518 I got blue screen of death and after that my laptop won't detect nVidia GPU I have. The only one shown in the device manager is Intel integrated HD adapter.

Laptop is: Asus k52j

Intel core i5 M430 2.27 GHz

4 gb ddr3 memory

and I used to have nVidia 310m video card.

 

The things I tried:

Completely formatting system drive and re-installing Windows. No luck.

Tried re-installing GPU drivers, but installation fails while checking system compatibility with error "This graphics driver didn't find compatible hardware".

Erasing every nVidia file I had on my laptop then booting in safe mode and trying to install from there. No luck.

 

I remember, that I've already had this problem and somehow I've fixed it, but I can't recall what I did, so I'm asking you guys for help.

 

Thanks. 

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wrong driver

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idk man, run a driver pack solution disk on that sh!t.

 

to be fair, win10 installer does say don't do it if you want to use that PC for anything other than checking out win10.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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I would try completely formatting the HDD and then just going through a clean installation of windows 7/8 and installing divers manually.

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you don't rollback a os...you HAVE to clean install it...otherwise u will basically screw your pc up...like it kinda sounds like you did

I did a clean install, I've jsut chosen the wrong term. English is not my first language.

 

The odd thing is that It worked normally, after I reinstalled the OS. It then just sort of gave up and I can't figure out what the heck is going on.

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go to device manager and get us the device id

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I would try completely formatting the HDD and then just going through a clean installation of windows 7/8 and installing divers manually.

So, you're suggesting that I, format both C(system) and D(everything else) partitions and try from scratch? I've never stumbled on a problem, where D drive would mess up system's work.

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So, you're suggesting that I, format both C(system) and D(everything else) partitions and try from scratch? I've never stumbled on a problem, where D drive would mess up system's work.

It was just a idea, If nothing else is trying I would use that as a last resort, Windows 10 clearly says do not use this if you need the system for other things and can't reset it if needed.

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no he just ment your c drive

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get the device id for us 

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Install GeForce Experience and download the drivers from there.

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Install GeForce Experience and download the drivers from there.

GeForce Experience won't install, as I've mentioned above. It doesn't detect that I have an nVidia card in my laptop.

 

get the device id for us 

Gimme a sec.

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OP, try this, it's gold.

 

http://drp.su/

 

seriously, it will find every driver you need. i used it when i did laptop referbs. i'd slap a disk in 3-4 times a day.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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get the device id for us 

If you mean nVidia's GPU device ID, no can do, because it won't even show itself in device manager. Otherwise I'd like to ask you to specify what you want me to do,

 

 

OP, try this, it's gold.

 

http://drp.su/

 

seriously, it will find every driver you need. i used it when i did laptop referbs. i'd slap a disk in 3-4 times a day.

 

I know what driver I need, it's just it won't install it.

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under video devices in device manager

you have to have something listed there

right click on that

properties

then go to hardware id

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under video devices in device manager

you have to have something listed there

right click on that

properties

then go to hardware id

 

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Don't mind the language, I think you can guess what is what.

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that might be switchable graphics

whats the exact model of this laptop

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that might be switchable graphics

whats the exact model of this laptop

It is switchable. The exact model is ASUS K52JC. I know that I can switch between intel and nvidia, it's just that it's not an option anymore.

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did you look in the bios?

might be a option to turn it off and on

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could be a key combo as well with the f keys

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is there any yellow marks in the device manager

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is there any yellow marks in the device manager

Nope, it just as there was no additional GPU. Haven't checked BIOS, I'll be back as soon as I do.

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did you look in the bios?

might be a option to turn it off and on

BIOS hasn't any option regarding GPU, as far as I can tell. I'll maybe try fresh install and see what happens then.

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well if the pc isn't even seeing any hardware...then something is wrong or not configured

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