Laptop GPU pretty much doesn't exist anymore...?

[KoolKaboom]

So today, my computer wasn't running games very well, so i went to check & update the driver, for I have had troubles with this in the past. I used the geforce experience to upgrade my drivers, as it was the most convenient. about halfway though the install, a popup to upgrade geforce experience to v6.1 (i think) popped up, and my only option was to install it, so i accepted. This cancelled my driver install, which I think is the source of my problems. Now, geforce experience does not work, everything I,do to detect my gpu is worthless (I have tried msi afterburner and the nvidia driver website), and i can't play many games because i"m limited to the integrated graphics of my laptop.

 

I'm fairly certain that this isn't a problem with optimus like most other laptop gpu problems, but in the software itself, for nothing i do even detects the gpu, where i can normally do that even when optimus is messing things up.

 

Specs incase they are needed:

Alienware m14x r1 (I don't need the hate)

GT 555m

intel i7 2630QM

6gb RAM

 

If anyone has any suggestions on what to do or has seen any problems similar to this one, please tell me about it. If any other information is needed I'll be happy to give it.

[Godlygamer23]

Remove the drivers and re-install them.

[The_1ted]

Is the graphics card visible in the windows device manager? If so you could also try a complete reinstall of your OS.

[KoolKaboom]

So I fixed the problem today, but the reason was weird. I restarted my computer, which somehow fixed it, even though I had restarted it multiple times since posting this. I don't know what exactly happened or how it got fixed, but it was fixed. Thanks for everyone who helped, and I hope this doesn't happen to many people because this was very frustrating.