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Compaq Presario V6000 crashes after installing video drivers Vista/7 64 bit

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Skryblz

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I'm having a hell of a time installing video drivers for this computer. I started with Windows 7 on here, but found out through searching that HP never released their "custom" drivers for the GeForce Go 6150 on this laptop. So, I reverted back to Vista which was factory-installed and I have all drivers except the video one. I've literally tried everything I could think of, went to HP/Compaq's site and downloaded the OEM Vista 64 drivers, went to NVIDIA's site and did their hardware scan (tells me to go to HP), tried using modified inf's, and Windows Update but EVERYTIME the driver installs and says successful, the reboot POST's, shows Vista loading up, then black screen and auto-restart. I go into safe-mode and open device manager which shows it is installed but will not let me boot normally. Then I uninstall the driver, deleted the driver software/remnants and tried another one. I must've done at least 5 different executables to no avail. Anyone with any experience working with these? I also have an HP DV6000 Vista 64, practically the SAME EXACT machine with the same GeForce GO 6150 and the drivers work for that one just fine. I know they are ancient problematic machines, just got them both for next to nothing.

Could the GPU just be shot? Should I go back to Windows 7 and/or downgrade to a 32 bit version?

I did have to do the popular heat gun trick on this V6000... heated it up and squished the GPU back into the board in order for ANY video to show up at first (all black screen even on POST originally). The display has been fine since then, which leads me to believe the GPU is OK (I'd have no display if it was dead, right??) I just can't find the correct drivers. I've even searched by the HWID and had successful "installs" but on reboot it always crashes!!

HWID is PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0244&SUBSYS_30B7103C
 
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I am having trouble with order of events here. Might help find an answer.
1. Laptop came with Vista and worked fine.
2. Tried to install 7 but couldn't find drivers for video card.
3. Went back to Vista, but it still won't work with the correct drivers.

Is that about it? Also, where in the process did the "heat gun trick" fit in?

Also, have you tried using Windows Update to find drivers?

And can you give us the specific model? The V6000 covers over a dozen individual models.
 
To be precise it is a Compaq V6205NR.

When I originally got the computer there was no video at all. I contemplated buying a new mobo, but saw the gpu was a common issue and after watching a few youtube videos gave it a shot. Computer booted up! However, there was many startup issues, viruses etc. and instead of repairing the original install (Vista) I formatted and installed Windows 7.

7 was running fine, but I could not install video drivers; 1st through Windows update led to the system rebooting and crashing, recovering automatically to before the install, but windows update kept telling me to install it. THEN I tried installing Vista 64 bit drivers which I found suggested on other forums through Google, crashing again. When I say crash, there is no bsod error. It POSTs, shows the windows loading bar, then the screen is black, but not off just the backlight is lit it seems. Computer auto-restarts after a minute and tells me there was an error, so I boot to safe mode to uninstall the erroneous drivers.

That link you gave me denis points to XP drivers. Would those work on 7, or at least in compatibility mode? Like I said, I have a HP DV6338se with the exact same GPU, same HWID's and everything. I tried to install those drivers on this computer just a few minutes ago and the same issue, crash and reboot to safe-mode.
 
It has been a while, but I seem to remember some Vista drivers working on 7, but there is no way to know for sure if that would work in your case.

So the video card seemed to be working once you fixed it. You mentioned 64-bit drivers, but it looks like that computer only came with 32-bit Vista. And unless it has considerably more than the default 1 GB of RAM, I would not recommend messing with 64-bit on that machine.

And, in case you didn't know, you cannot install 64-bit drivers on a 32-bit OS.

Also, make sure you are installing the nForce chipset driver.
 
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