I remember having this problem once before, but for the life of me can't remember how to fix it.
So when one of my HP laptops whitescreened on me, I took out its hard drive and put it in another laptop (an HP nx7300 to be exact). Everything works beautifully apart for the fact that it does not detect any nvidia at all. This is what the Driver Manager shows me, and this is what Nvidia X Server Settings shows me.
I realize that the two machines likely have two different graphics cards. However, lspci -v doesn't seem to even show the graphics card at all.
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30a2
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30a2
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at f4400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
I/O ports at 4000 [size=8]
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at f4480000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: i915
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30a2
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at f4500000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30a2
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44
Memory at f4580000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=08, subordinate=08, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00005000-00005fff
Memory behind bridge: 84000000-841fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000084200000-00000000843fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=10, subordinate=10, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00006000-00006fff
Memory behind bridge: f4000000-f40fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000084400000-00000000845fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=20, subordinate=20, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00003fff
Memory behind bridge: f0000000-f3ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000084600000-00000000847fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30a2
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
I/O ports at 4020 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30a2
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
I/O ports at 4040 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30a2
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at 4060 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30a2
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at 4080 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30a2
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
Memory at f4584000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=06, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 00007000-00007fff
Memory behind bridge: f4100000-f43fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000080000000-0000000083ffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30a2
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: lpc_ich
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30a2
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374
I/O ports at 40a0 [size=16]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7-M Family) SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 01) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30a2
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 43
I/O ports at 13f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 15f4 [size=4]
I/O ports at 1370 [size=8]
I/O ports at 1574 [size=4]
I/O ports at 40d0 [size=16]
Memory at f4585000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ahci
02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30a2
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 18
Memory at f4100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 80000000-83ffffff (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 88000000-8bffffff
I/O window 0: 00007000-000070ff
I/O window 1: 00007400-000074ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
02:06.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30a2
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at f4101000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Memory at f4104000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci
02:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company NX7300 laptop
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at f4108000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: b44
10:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company BCM4311 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
