When i click on the nvidia control panel It says
NVIDIA Display settings are not available.
An NVIDIA graphics card was not detected in your system

Can someone please help me solve my problem my fps is dropping in my games

Hello there rush4wild (:
It depends on the games your playing one time i played a game that disabled my NVIDIA control panel, Meaning you might have to redownload it later, Your FPS will continue to stay the same even though your NVIDIA panel is not detected if it's not i would say redownload it (Try) serch on your start mean "Run" Put in NVIDIA Control Panel on where it says run, Then finally if it doesn't work just type in "NVIDIA control panel" if not go to your computer and go to your hardrive and see if it's in your harddrive if not, Go to the main website, and redownload NVIDIDA if you need to, if not i would say reformatt your computer, I don't think this problem could hurt your computer some times games redownloaded another NVIDIA and disables your current one and deletes the one you already had, I've had the same problems,
Hope it helps,

Did it work fine before? Did you do anything before it stopped working? Updated any drivers?

Try updating you Intel GPU driver and than download Nvidia drivers from official site and install them

Try dowloading the drivers nvidia that you require

When did you get the laptop and have you updated the BIOS for the motherboard?

Chances are you have a defective motherboard, if it does not detect the Nvidia card as even being there, it will not let you update the drivers, when I update my Nvidia drivers I completely remove old ones first so it's deeper than just that.

You need to call Alienware Support immediately.

rush I had the same probloems install the 290 drivers .. since then no problems for 3 months :) They seem stable for me that is... it is really annoying and it was soo long to get it detect again >

Just had the same problem. After a couple of BSOD's while playing Battlefield3 the card was not recognized. In the diagnosticstool an error is displayed (System Board: Internal Timer not functional).

After contacting Dell-support I reflashed the BIOS with A08 and in the BIOS saved all settings to default (F9). After that the NVIDIA card was detected again. The error in the diagnosticstool is still there though. Dell support told me to ignore the error. I'm a little sceptic, cause I read on the internet that this issue can return from time to time. But for now it works fine..for one whole day that is, it arrived new from China two days ago and crashed yesterday.