Win 7 - GFX card problems +

[Vandercook]

Hey all.
Just went out and bought the new Windows 7 Home Premium edition and installed it on my NovaTech gaming laptop today, only to find several problems with drivers.
I bought my laptop about 7-8 months ago, it is a x70 with the following specs:
CPU: Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo P8600 @ 2.40GHz
MOB: M860TU (not a 100% sure on this one, used the CPUZ program to locate it though)
Chipset: Intel PM45
Southbridge: Intel 82801IM (ICH9-M)
RAM: 4GB DDR3
HDD: 250Gb 7200 SATA
GFX: Nvidia GTX260 1GB VGA

One of my problems is, that the driver CD-rom which followed with the purchase of the laptop, of course doesnt work with Windows 7 (though it does work with the beta version) and every single GFX driver I've tried to download, being it a complete package or just the bare minimum, seems to fail. All driver's where of course downloaded from Nvidia's official website.
When I try to install the GFX driver's, the pop-up message informs me that the driver can not be installed because it doesnt work with my hardware.
The GFX driver I am trying to install at the moment is the:
Nvidia GeForce -> GeForce 200 Series -> GeForce GTX 260 -> Windows 7 64-bit -> English (UK)

I havent installed any other hardware or tampered with the hardware at all.
Do any of you guys have a solution to my problem?

Best regards,
Vandercook

[David84]

the problem your having mate is your trying to use the desktop version of the driver when you need the mobile version try this http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/notebook_winvista_win7_x64_195.62_whql_uk.html

[Vandercook]

Thank you very much for the quick reply and solution, David84, it did fix my GFX driver problem, but seems like there's more of them.
My Windows Experience Index score is still at 1 due to bad GFX and when I try to enter any game at all, it is all in pixel form. Any idea what would be missing at this point?

[David84]

you said that the driver cd that came with the laptop didnt work in win7 so im thinking you've yet to install chipset drivers?

edit just found this link should have all the drivers you need for win7 on that laptop

http://74.212.252.103/pages/notebooks/download.cfm?ProductType=8662

[Vandercook]

One of the things I was able to install without the included CD was actually the chipset drivers, which should be functioning fully right about now. Also installed DirectX, so that isnt the problem either at the moment.

[David84]

check out my edit above maybe the chipset drivers from that link are more upto date sorry i cant be of more help my knowledge of laptops is limited

[Vandercook]

Again thank you David84, been a really great help mate, appreciate it. :-)
Will try re-formatting the computer now and re-installing with the drivers from your links, and hopefully I will get things running soonish.