You are not currently using a display attached to nvidia

opticshock

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Basically, I'm a complete idiot.
I wanted to increase performance ingame for my Dell XPS L502X with Nvidia gt525m
I heard that old driver entries clashed with newer entries
So off I went to guru 3d to download driver sweeper
I downloaded it and then analysed nvidia. And then i clicked clean with all the entries checked without looking at it
I hadnt even uninstalled a driver
I restarted and windows 7 started in 800x600 resolution
then i clicked on nvidia settings in tray and it said "You are not currently using a display attacked to a nvidia gpu"
I have looked through every thread possible and nothing works
I dont have any working system restore points
And i really dont want to reinstall windows 7

I have rolled back the driver and nothing happened
I have uninstalled all nvidia drivers and then used driver sweeper
Still nothing works and it still says the same thing

Please someone have a fix for this
I cant do anything, i can barely play online tetris, let alone blacklight retribution

thank you, please help
 

opticshock

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sorry I forgot to mention I installed the latest drivers for my gpu
And it still didn't work
Thanks for the really quick response
 

opticshock

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Did I eveR mention how much of an idiot I am?
Anyway should I uninstall the nvidia drivers and then driver sweeper
And after that use the Download link u posted?

Thanks this forum is awesome
 

opticshock

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Now when i uninstall nvidia graphics driver, after i restart vga compatible video controller drivers start installing and nvidia drivers are restored
 

opticshock

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What i said about vga was wrong but its still not working.
here is an image of my dell\driver folder http://i50.tinypic.com/15yvymp.png
in my c\nvidia folder there is only DisplayDriver
can someone please tell me what is in their NVIDIA folder because i need to know if i can copy from dell to nvidia
 

opticshock

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Yes i opened the dell file then its automatically extracted the files. And then i went to c:\dell\drivers\6PNDN and then ran the setup within that folder