Acer Aspire 5520 GPU Driver Problem

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  1. dougal79

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    My niece recently got an Acer Aspire 5520 laptop.
    There was a problem with a virus & her brother ended up reinstalling windows vista onto it.
    Now when she trys to play games it comes up an error message saying:

    Failed to find any DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics adapters in this system! Please make sure you have a DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics adapter and have installed the latest drivers provided by the manufacturer.

    I think the problem is that there is no driver installed.
    I tried finding the driver for it from the Nvidia site, but it says to go to the Acer site & download it from there.
    But there doesnt seem to be any drivers on the site!!!

    Here is a link to the specs of her laptop:
    http://www.acerdirect.co.uk/Acer_Aspire_5520-6A2G12Mi_LX.AJ70X.010/version.asp

    Any help is much appreciated :)
     
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    dougal79 Regular member

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    I tried that mate, but it after trying to install, it says unable to find drivers.

    Any other ideas or anywhere else i can find drivers ?

    Cheers
     
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    sammorris Senior member

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    When does it give you this error message?
     
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    dougal79 Regular member

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    It gives this message after downloading & installing.
    I get to the point where it says installing & it goes through the files it installs & then i get the error.

    Cheers ;)
     
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    sammorris Senior member

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    Can you screenshot the exact error message for us?
     
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    dougal79 Regular member

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    Its cool mate, got the solution from another site (laptop2go.com).

    Cheers
     
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    sammorris Senior member

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    Would you mind telling us what you did for future reference, in case this comes up again?
     

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