Hardware Nvidia GPU not detected on Windows 10

smileyhead · Oct 29, 2020

JJO192 said:
Okay sweet good news. Next take this file and put it in Display.Driver folder and replace the exisiting one and try the setup again and let me know how you go.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/iyji9z9gqeuvvz9/nvcvi.inf/file

Now, I get this.

Alexander1970 · Oct 29, 2020

Hello.

Unfortunately I did not find any specific Information about the Chipset of this Laptop.Since it is an Intel Processor I presume it is an Intel Chipset.
Maybe the INTEL Chipset Driver (that's what it used to be called earlier...) are missing and/or some Component (Bridge ?) of it is not correctly installed...

The Description says:

The integrated Intel HD Graphics 4400 takes care of the graphics output. If even more performance is required, for example with 3D games, the Nvidia GeForce 940M with 2 GB VRAM takes over the work.

This seems to me,both GPU´s are required/installed to work correctly....

JJO192 · Oct 29, 2020

smileyhead said:
Now, I get this.

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Cool, Follow the guide for option two

https://www.howtogeek.com/167723/how-to-disable-driver-signature-verification-on-64-bit-windows-8.1-so-that-you-can-install-unsigned-drivers/#:~:text=Click the “Restart” button to,able to install unsigned drivers.
Once you have restarted the system with 'Disable driver signature enforcement', go to device manager, right click the 940m and update driver.

Browse my computer
Let me pick
Have disk
Locate the nvcvi.inf file and select it. Then show me the options of drivers you have available.

Alexander1970 · Oct 29, 2020

You need a Combo/Special Driver for BOTH GPUs from the Manufacturer....

..and,we hope it not,maybe the NVIDIA GPU is "dead"....

smileyhead · Oct 29, 2020

alexander1970 said:
Hello.

Unfortunately I did not find any specific Information about the Chipset of this Laptop.Since it is an Intel Processor I presume it is an Intel Chipset.
Maybe the INTEL Chipset Driver (that's what it used to be called earlier...) are missing and/or some Component (Bridge ?) of it is not correctly installed...

The Description says:

This seems to me,both GPU´s are required/installed to work correctly....

The Intel driver is installed correctly.

JJO192 said:
Cool, Follow the guide for option two

https://www.howtogeek.com/167723/how-to-disable-driver-signature-verification-on-64-bit-windows-8.1-so-that-you-can-install-unsigned-drivers/#:~:text=Click the “Restart” button to,able to install unsigned drivers.
Once you have restarted the system with 'Disable driver signature enforcement', go to device manager, right click the 940m and update driver.

Browse my computer
Let me pick
Have disk
Locate the nvcvi.inf file and select it. Then show me the options of drivers you have available.

These are my options.

JJO192 · Oct 29, 2020

smileyhead said:
The Intel driver is installed correctly.

These are my options.

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Replace the old one with this new one. I've updated it again

http://www.mediafire.com/file/iyji9z9gqeuvvz9/nvcvi.inf/file

Once you've replace that again (sorry for making you do that again)

Run the setup again and go for the install. If you get a red box saying that the driver is not signed, install anyway and let me know how you go. If that screen doesn't come up go back to the screen that you showed me, (search for the drive manually again) and proceed to install one the the 'NVIDIA GeForce 940M' drivers. If it fails attempt to install any that work, even the %NVIDIA_DEV.1347% ones, which ever takes. If one installs run the setup again.

smileyhead · Oct 29, 2020

JJO192 said:
Replace the old one with this new one. I've updated it again

http://www.mediafire.com/file/iyji9z9gqeuvvz9/nvcvi.inf/file

Once you've replace that again (sorry for making you do that again)

Run the setup again and go for the install. If you get a red box saying that the driver is not signed, install anyway and let me know how you go. If that screen doesn't come up go back to the screen that you showed me, (search for the drive manually again) and proceed to install one the the 'NVIDIA GeForce 940M' drivers. If it fails attempt to install any that work, even the %NVIDIA_DEV.1347% ones, which ever takes. If one installs run the setup again.

The install finished successfully. The card shows up in device manager, and GeForce Experience launched and gave me this.

JJO192 · Oct 29, 2020

smileyhead said:
The install finished successfully. The card shows up in device manager, and GeForce Experience launched and gave me this.

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What is the driver name displayed in device manager? And did the red unassigned driver screen come up?

smileyhead · Oct 29, 2020

JJO192 said:
What is the driver name displayed in device manager? And did the red unassigned driver screen come up?

It shows up as NVIDIA GeForce 940M. And yeah, the red screen did come up, but I clicked ‘install anyway.’

JJO192 · Oct 29, 2020

smileyhead said:
It shows up as NVIDIA GeForce 940M. And yeah, the red screen did come up, but I clicked ‘install anyway.’

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A restart may help after everything.

Then what I would say at this if it does't work, is to reinstall the drivers again with custom install, then clean install.

Or use DDU to completely uninstall, and install again, keep in mind that if you use DDU, you will need to restart in “Disable driver signature enforcement” option again. But I will say that just do a clean install first and see how you go. Also before that you could try an application that uses the Nvidia card to atleast see if other applications work with it. Then you will know atleast it does work. Your super close at this point.

Alexander1970 · Oct 29, 2020

A little Info:

It is called NVIDIA Optimus Technology
https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1042198/

And as I feared,it needs Manufacturer Modified Drivers for BOTH GPUs.....

Maybe you can try an Driver from an other Brand..
EDIT sorry it contains only GTX 1050 Driver and Intel 630

This one could maybe work....

EDIT sorry Windows 8.1 only....
But is has an Windows 7 64 Bit Driver..

JJO192 · Oct 29, 2020

alexander1970 said:
A little Info:

It is called NVIDIA Optimus Technology
https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1042198/

And as I feared,it needs Manufacturer Modified Drivers for BOTH GPUs.....

Maybe you can try an Driver from an other Brand..
EDIT sorry it contains only GTX 1050 Driver and Intel 630

This one could maybe work....

EDIT sorry Windows 8.1 only....
But is has an Windows 7 64 Bit Driver..

Mine uses Optimus too, an Intel and Nvidia GPU

smileyhead · Oct 29, 2020

JJO192 said:
A restart may help after everything.

After a restart, I'm back to error 43...

JJO192 said:
Then what I would say at this if it does't work, is to reinstall the drivers again with custom install, then clean install.

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand correctly. Should I uninstall the driver, reinstall it from the installer with custom options (which ones?), then run the installer again, with the recommended settings?

Alexander1970 · Oct 29, 2020

Thank you.

JJO192 said:
Mine uses Optimus too, an Intel and Nvidia GPU

The "Problem" is without the correct Package you can not install the Driver.....

It seems there is no Windows 10 Optimus 64x Driver for the 940M only for Windows 7 64x
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/windows/189_42/optimus_win7_x64_notebook_189-42/

JJO192 · Oct 29, 2020

smileyhead said:
After a restart, I'm back to error 43...

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand correctly. Should I uninstall the driver, reinstall it from the installer with custom options (which ones?), then run the installer again, with the recommended settings?

Yeah I'd say download

https://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,14.html

Run it and select Nvidia and your GPU and do the recommended uninstall. It will then reboot. Once back to Windows, restart with “Disable driver signature enforcement” option again. Then run the installation again as you did before to get it installed and see how you fair.

smileyhead · Oct 29, 2020

JJO192 said:
Yeah I'd say download

https://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,14.html

Run it and select Nvidia and your GPU and do the recommended uninstall. It will then reboot. Once back to Windows, restart with “Disable driver signature enforcement” option again. Then run the installation again as you did before to get it installed and see how you fair.

Same as last time. GeForce Experience opens and says ‘No driver found. Click continue to install the latest Game Ready driver.’

GothicIII · Oct 29, 2020

All gpus since the GTX6xx upwards use the same Nvidia GPU driver for working. Does not matter if it is a mobile or desktop version. I use the same driver for a GTX1050Ti mobile and a RTX2070 desktop as egpu. If they don't install then there is most likely a hardware problem.
Sadly this is tedious to debug on optimus laptops. Nothing you can do on windows since there are no tools to debug this properly and there are no drivers besides the nvidia one (which do not install for you).

Error 43 is a general driver error and can occur on everything: Broken hardware, wrong driver, bad connection (for plugable devices) or even if only the driver crashed. This does not tell you anything besides "it does not work"

As a last resort to pin it down to a software problem, I would recommend to use a linux system (e.g. on usb) and try bumblebee or equivalent (e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/aoh5be/guide_hybrid_graphics_on_linux_nvidia_optimus/) and test it with the free drivers. If opengl-application still do not work on the nvidia gpu or the kernel module for it throws an exception then your dgpu is dead and you'd need a new laptop. It is not an easy task to setup on linux so you'd need someone experienced to get that working.

Tom Bombadildo · Oct 29, 2020

Out of curiosity, could you try setting up a quick Linux dualboot and try installing Nvidia's drivers there? You can then test the GPU there to confirm the hardware itself is actually working, because this sounds like less of a software issue and more of a potential hardware fault. The GPU definitely shouldn't be showing up multiple times like that in device manager, it's possible there's a bad BIOS setting but there could be an issue with the GPU itself.

Tom Bombadildo · Oct 29, 2020

GothicIII said:
All gpus since the GTX6xx upwards use the same Nvidia GPU driver for working. Does not matter if it is a mobile or desktop version. I use the same driver for a GTX1050Ti mobile and a RTX2070 desktop as egpu. If they don't install then there is most likely a hardware problem.
Sadly this is tedious to debug on optimus laptops. Nothing you can do on windows since there are no tools to debug this properly and there are no drivers besides the nvidia one (which do not install for you)

As a last resort to pin it down to a software problem, I would recommend to use a linux system (e.g. on usb) and try bumblebee or equivalent (e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/aoh5be/guide_hybrid_graphics_on_linux_nvidia_optimus/) and test it with the free drivers. If opengl-application still do not work on the nvidia gpu or the kernel module for it throws an exception then your igpu is dead and you'd need a new laptop. It is not an easy task to setup on linux so you'd need someone experienced to get that working.

Nvidia's native Linux drivers support Optimus now, there's nothing special you need to do other than install their latest proprietary driver from a repository and use the provided software that's included (Prime) to swap between integrated or dedicated graphics. You don't even need to bother with bumblebee anymore.

smileyhead · Oct 29, 2020

Tom Bombadildo said:
Out of curiosity, could you try setting up a quick Linux dualboot and try installing Nvidia's drivers there? You can then test the GPU there to confirm the hardware itself is actually working, because this sounds like less of a software issue and more of a potential hardware fault. The GPU definitely shouldn't be showing up multiple times like that in device manager, it's possible there's a bad BIOS setting but there could be an issue with the GPU itself.

Oh, you misunderstand. The GPU didn't show up multiple times. When I installed the driver manually from device manager, on the list of drivers I could install, there were multiple entries (drivers) with the same name. This was true for almost every other card, as well.
As a matter of fact, I just used Ubuntu before installing Windows and the GPU worked fine. It got detected and I installed the latest proprietary drivers for it. I even played Windows-based Steam games using Proton.

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