I've bought an HP Envy 15 laptop, used, from Amazon. It had Windows 8 installed, so I tried installing Windows 7 instead. There were a lot of problems with that installation (the screen flickered, wireless wouldn't work regardless of what drivers I used, etc), so I installed Windows 8.1 instead. However, a lot of the drivers that came pre-installed on my laptop appear to be gone now.
For example, although there's a sticker on my laptop that says Nvidia GeForce, and I remember seeing GeForce as my graphics adapter in the dxdiag when I ran it on the original Windows installation, right now it says Intel HD 4600 for the graphics adapter. A downloaded Nvidia graphical driver doesn't install, because it says it doesn't recognize my video card. How can I find out what my graphics card is without opening my laptop up?
Best Answer
you have two cards., the intel card runs the monitor. you have to go into the GeForce settings with their software and set the NVidia card as the primary for all applications. the intel will still run your laptop screen