:confused::wonder: thats foreign to me,excuse my very small brain but i havent a clue what any of that means.:confused:

The simple, quick way to find out is to scan your system..

Intel® Driver Update Utility for graphics drivers - Check for the latest driver

yeah i already did that,it just says that i have standard vga graphics.

You don't need win7 drivers if they don't exist, Vistsa or XP drivers will work. If you try Vista ones they should install straight off. If you get XP ones install in xp compatability mode. Done it with a laptop that only has XP drivers available for it and no Microsoft Win7 drivers. Tried in non xp compatable mode and said need XP. Changed to compatabilty mode and installed fine and work fine.

i dont really understand any of it,my laptop already had vista so surely thats what the driver already is even after installing windows 7?its standard vga?all it is is that the screen looks almost widescreen,everything looks quite big and pics look short and fat.i really dont want to f**k it up by doing something i havent got a clue about,can u simplify?:lol1::cuckoo:

When you installed Win 7 that effectively 'erased' Vista and put on Windows 7 in its place. The standard vga graphics adapter you are seeing is the default Microsoft driver being used as Microsoft have not included your graphics card in its list of supplied drivers. Therefore you need to download new ones. Ideally you would download the Win 7 driver for your video card. However not all manufacturers have updated their drivers for older machines and say that your hardware only has Vista and or XP drivers available.

I have had this and so had to use the only driver available which was for XP. Win 7 and Vista both have a very usefull feature called compatibility mode which allows you to run stuff only designed for XP. Download the driver for XP and right click on the file and select properties. There is then a number of tabs, one of which is compatibility. Select this tab and put a tick in the checkbox for "run this program in compatibility mode for" and then in the drop down box select the operating system the drivers were designed for - i.e. if you dowloaded the xp driver select xp sp3, if you downloaded the vista driver select vista sp2. Then click apply and then double click the file and run it.

It should install and work fine, you then have correct drivers for your card working giving you the correct resolution to choose from.

thanks for that but i think im gonna give up,just tried doing that,got a load of crap that i dont need.....not sure even what to download as there is so much crap available,im slowly losing patience so thanks again,but i am at my wits end,why do computers have to be so confusing? cars are much simpler.:thumb:........f*****g enoying!

Computers aren't annoying, the problem you are having is down to a driver issue, its like putting diesel into a petrol car & expecting it to perform.

Downgrade to Vista or XP, the drivers will be sorted eventually & you will have more hair as a result :thumb:

its all over lol,im gonna leave it as it is....i can still use the laptop and thats the main thing,cant be doing with any more hassle.it all works as it should ,ill get used to the resolution as it aint worth "loseing any more hair over". stress free from this moment on! thanks for all the help,much appriciated.

Don't know if this is the same that Dj Jon gave you in the link but give it a try before giving up mate.

NVIDIA GeForce Series Video Driver HP Pavilion dv6500 CTO Entertainment Notebook PC - HP Customer Care (United States - English)

:lol1:.ok one last go.:D:thumb::Suspiciou

cheers anyway.....it dont work,nevermind,game over, im out.thanks again.

As someone said just get the XP or Vista drivers and install them in compatibility mode. Right click the setup.exe click properties n set the compatibilty mode to run in either Windows Vista or XP (Service Pack 3)