When I do the manual hardware add, it lists several intel chipsets which I recall appearing when I was on stamina mode in XP (however i'm in speed mode currently, so the Nvidia card should show up). I have a feeling that this might have something to do with the fact that my laptop has a switch to go between 'stamina' and 'speed' modes, where the stamina mode runs off of a different chipset. I've also tried booting up the manual hardware addition tool (hdwwiz.exe), but when I boot that up it only finds my intel chipset, doesn't list my Nvidia card. I've read for hours about how to fix this, and most people have just said 'install the windows vista driver for your graphics card and you'll be good to go.' Well, i've downloaded the vista driver, but when I try to install it, it says that it can't find any hardware to install to GeForce 300 Series: GeForce GT 340, GeForce GT 330, GeForce GT 320, GeForce 315, GeForce 310. Release Notes (v341.81) GeForce 400 Series: GeForce 405. so instead of being able to run my native resolution of 1280x800, i'm stuck at 1024x768. This driver adds security updates for the driver components nvlddmkm.sys and nv4mini.sys. In my device manager for display adapters it lists 'standard VGA graphics adaptor'. I partitioned by hard drive to be able to dual boot windows XP and windows 7, but when I boot up windows 7, it doesn't recognize my graphics card. I'm on a Vaio VGN-SZ280P with an Nvidia Go 7400:
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