# Why in the @\*#& cant I upgrade graphics drivers

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-in-the-cant-i-upgrade-graphics-drivers/247627
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**Created:** [December 27, 2007, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-in-the-cant-i-upgrade-graphics-drivers/247627 "2007-12-27T14:21:09Z")
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### Author: ![DDD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@DDD](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DDD)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2007, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-in-the-cant-i-upgrade-graphics-drivers/247627/1 "2007-12-27T14:21:09Z")

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OK, I have a dell Inspiron e1705 laptop with a go7800 128mb Nvidia card in it. Currently it is running the 79.xx drivers. Well I need to update them. I go to nvidia and grab the latest forceware drivers which is like 85.xx. Now I check the compatibility and all that good stuff and everything checks out. But yet when I run the installer it says cant find hardware compatible. Now this is where it may get a little weird and I am not sure what is what. When I check the properties of my vid card from the device manager my vid card says go7800. Cool. But when I go to get my drivers it doesnt give a option for a plain old go7800, it says go7800GTX. Not sure if that is the issue. But it says it should work with my card when I check the requirements and and manufacturer for my laptop.

Confused, and greatly hobbled because I need to use LW 9.3 and have the new OpenGL 2.0 support ☹ Please help.

OH btw more stats on the computer.

Windows XP  
2gb RAM  
1.88GHZ dual core processor  
bought about 2 years ago.