Laptop not detecting 860m video card

Mr_Erving

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Jan 19, 2016
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So I finally decided to upgrade to windows 10 and the upgrade went smoothly. I went into device manager to make sure everything was fine, but it wasn't. I reealised my 860m was not showing up. Then i realized I just had to uninstall my old display driver and then install a windows 10 one which i got from geforce.com. In the installer it just said it could not detect compatabile hardwarwe. It is about a 2-3 year old Alienware latptop from dell.
 

Metalauxilia

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Dec 18, 2013
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I'd try double checking nvidia's site to make sure you have the right driver. I've downloaded a driver in the past and had the same issue with another card turns out it was the wrong driver.
 

Mr_Erving

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Jan 19, 2016
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Just double checked, it's the right driver
 

Mr_Erving

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Jan 19, 2016
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it's also not showing up in device manager either
 

Mr_Erving

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Jan 19, 2016
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Ok, finally found a solution where i restarted in advanced mode and this default windows adapter came up under display adapters in device manager. Then I just clicked update driver software and it worked.