TouchSmart IQ506 video problems in Windows 7 Ultimate edition.

I installed Windows 7 Ultimate without any problems, but my screen flickers all the seconds (20 or more).  It is extremely annoying, and I can't install the drivers, I have download from nvidia.  She telling me that this driver does not support this video card.  I checked with GPU - Z and it signals a 9300M GS and the pilot for the series 9xxxM says that it supports.

HP, does not support Windows 7 yet, so I can't use that option and using the Windows 7 update of the generic drivers is not clear upward flicker no more.

Someone at - it their system works properly with Windows 7 yet?  Please do not force me to Vista!

-= Mark =-

I posted this the other week, found I had the same problem - but my message has been moved by one of the host - don't know why cause not specific to the IQ PC...

http://h30434.www3.HP.com/PSG/board/message?board.ID=TouchSmartPC&thread.ID=1759

All you need to do is search for your drivers Vista x 64 drivers HP...  Here are the drivers for your PC:

http://h10025.www1.HP.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?OS=2100&LC=en&DLC=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=3752245

You must download the exe from the HP driver and extract with winrar (right click on the exe Driver HP and select "extract with winrar") then run the extracted setup.exe manually from the src subdirectory.

You'll want to install "summer 2008 Original NVIDIA Unified Graphics Driver" first and then followed up with the installation of the "NVIDIA GeForce 9300 M GS graphic BIOS and Driver Update"

You also need to install the sound card driver (to get your microphone working), the keyboard driver, the OSD menu and some of the function keys, if you have a TV tuner, intall originally was 2008 and also update driver...

Your PC will work like a dream with W7, no need to go back to Vista - enjoy!

Is what I also suggest go back HP drivers after October when Win 7 RTM is officially released, I would say that HP will have updates the driver available for Windows 7 x 64 I hope to here here.

Message edited by JimT on 07/09/2009 09:45

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