Graphics card is not recognized in windows 7

I'm having this same exact problem with my mbp i5. I can't for the life of me figure it out. I tried reinstalling, updating to bootcamp 3.1, reinstall drivers, and also went to nvidia website and got same error. I've read so many different forums and haven't found anything that's worked yet. It's very frustrating. Apple needs to make another update because it seems like a lot of other people are having the same driver issues.

I read that the 64 bit OS has better driver support. I suppose I'll try to install it and see. If you end up figuring it out please post it on here.

I figured out how to get ur nvidia graphics card to be recognized on your windows partition! Put in your mac OS cd you received with your macbook. Go into view folders (there might be another way, but this is what I did) and click setup. The bootcamp assistant will begin to install all drivers and updates to make your windows experience mac friendly. It will soon install drivers so that windows will recognize the graphics card as well as trackpad, etc.

Simply setup the bootcamp assistant from the mac OS cd while running windows.

^^Gecko, I'm not bustin' on you, but you're wrong. Or, you are, but I doubt it, one of the lucky ones.
I've gotten 3.1 installed by running the setup .exe file from the DVD via Windows Explorer. Everything seems OK except the graphics/resolution. My NVIDIA card isn't recognized and my resolution options only go up to 1280 x 800.
The Window 7 Performance Information and Tools shows this:
"Graphics
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Total available graphics memory Not detected
Dedicated graphics memory 0 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 0 MB
Display adapter driver version 6.1.7600.16385
Primary monitor resolution 1280x800
DirectX version DirectX 8 or earlier"

Apple, please, help us!

Message was edited by: K Dubb

Message was edited by: K Dubb

I had this problem 2 days ago.

The Apple disk doesn't help; in fact everything was working fine until I installed Apple's drivers.

Go to NVIDIA's website, put in your card series number, and download/install the driver it suggests. Then Restart. It worked perfectly for me. Good luck

^^^Boondocksftfw, thank you. Installing the NVIDIA drivers from their website worked for me. Now the Performance Information and Tools test shows:
"Graphics
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Display adapter type NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M
Total available graphics memory 2234 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 512 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 1722 MB
Display adapter driver version 8.17.12.5896
Primary monitor resolution 1440x900
DirectX version DirectX 10"

You can see from my earlier post that I am now showing NVIDIA, 512MB & 1440 x 900, where before I was gettin' nothin'

Put your Mac OSX DVD in the computer. Click the bottom left start menu in Windows 7 and type in "Device Manager." Open the Device Manager utility. Under "Display Adapters," right click on the generic VGA card shown and click "update driver." (This can also be done by double clicking the VGA Driver, choosing the Driver tab at the top, and then choosing update driver). Choose to search for a new driver yourself. Browse to the MAC OSX DVD and navigate to the folder that is labeled "Drivers" (may be inside the boot camp folder, I don't have it in front of me). Within the Drivers folder, scroll down to NVidia (or whatever video Card you have), open that folder and choose the mobile chipset compatible with your version of Windows 7, i.e. 64 or 32 bit.

Let me know if this works for anyone.

People DON'T WANT Apple's drivers, they don't work, and they just need to download the proper graphics installers from the vendor.

In fact, at one point, users had to, with trouble, uninstall Apple's in order to stop BSOD and crashing, and BC 3.0 (now a year old) and then 3.1 (from Nov) only caused problems and made it worse.