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Install G 103M Driver on Windows 7

20 June 2009 by R. Bambang Widiatmoko | 3 Comments


nVidia GeForce G 103M ussually used in notebook for the VGA adapter. Recently I had problem when install it in Windows 7 for my laptop, HP Compaq Presario CQ40-419TX. nVidia has provide the driver in their website [download here], but the driver couldn’t be installed in Windows 7. Windows only want to use default Windows VGA driver instead from nVidia. After doing some experiment, I got the solution.
Download the driver, run the file, 186.03_notebook_win7_32bit_international_whql.exe. If you click it, it will extract firstly to the drive, usually in C:NVIDIA. Don’t continue the installation, it won’t work since it will only install the HD Audio driver, not the VGA driver. We only need the extracted files.

How To:

1. Open Device Manager -> Display Adapters -> right click on Standard VGA Adapter -> Update Driver Software…
2. Browse my computer for driver software -> Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer
3. Click on Have Disk… button.
4. Browse in C:NVIDIADisplayDriver186.03InternationalDispl aynvaa.inf
5. Select G 103M. OK.
Now you can experience the aero / 3D flip effect ^^
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And for the audio driver, I only use from Windows default, since the driver from HP (for Vista) didn’t work.

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  • martin

    When I reach step 5) in the walkthrough I get the message:

    The folder you specified doesn’t contain a compatible software driver for your device. In the folder contains a driver, make sure it is designed to work with Windows for x64-based systems.

  • martin

    @martin
    My bad! I’m running at the 64-bit version.
    link is here:
    http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook_winvista_win7_x64_186.81_whql.html

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