The best source for the latest, Microsoft Certified, Nvidia drivers are on the www.nvidia.com website: Just type the card type you have, operating system, and the site will direct you to the driver best suited for your card.
but at the nvidia website there is a warning that the drivers are only for the workstation cadrs and not for the go series available. For the go series you have to look by the laptop vendor and download the lates drivers from there.
But that is exactly what i have done and the question is whats the differense between the two driver releases?
Not necessarily, I have an Inspiron 8200 with Nvidia 440 Go graphics card, and I update the drives with the Nvidia Forceware Regualrand Mobile drivers: But instead of using the setup that comes with the driver's program I extract the driver's file to a directory, and install the driver the old way:
Go to control panel, System Icon, Hardware tab, Device manager tab, Display adapter, under the display adapter you will see the graphics card installed, right click with mouse, then update driver, locate the uncompressed directory were the driver file is and the system will read the *.inf file, usually it will automatically identify your card, otherwise look for a card similar to the one installed, and follow the directions.
I usually install new drives not certified still by Microsoft; they take too long to certify drives.
There is a new Forceware laptop driver at: http://www.tcmagazine.info/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=8273
If you experience problem during re-boot; the card is not working properly, then boot-up under safe mode (F8) go to the control panel and go through the same procedure above except there is an option to roll-back the driver to the previous version. Once you have rolled-back the driver you can re-boot and you will have the previous driver.
Chipstone
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November 7th, 2004 20:00
The best source for the latest, Microsoft Certified, Nvidia drivers are on the www.nvidia.com website: Just type the card type you have, operating system, and the site will direct you to the driver best suited for your card.
thomatrs
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November 8th, 2004 06:00
thanks for the response and you are right,
but at the nvidia website there is a warning that the drivers are only for the workstation cadrs and not for the go series available. For the go series you have to look by the laptop vendor and download the lates drivers from there.
But that is exactly what i have done and the question is whats the differense between the two driver releases?
thanks
Thom
Chipstone
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November 8th, 2004 15:00
Go to control panel, System Icon, Hardware tab, Device manager tab, Display adapter, under the display adapter you will see the graphics card installed, right click with mouse, then update driver, locate the uncompressed directory were the driver file is and the system will read the *.inf file, usually it will automatically identify your card, otherwise look for a card similar to the one installed, and follow the directions.
I usually install new drives not certified still by Microsoft; they take too long to certify drives.
There is a new Forceware laptop driver at: http://www.tcmagazine.info/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=8273
If you experience problem during re-boot; the card is not working properly, then boot-up under safe mode (F8) go to the control panel and go through the same procedure above except there is an option to roll-back the driver to the previous version. Once you have rolled-back the driver you can re-boot and you will have the previous driver.
ofelas
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November 11th, 2004 01:00
ftp://ftp.dell.com/video/R82002.EXE
Message Edited by ofelas on 11-10-2004 10:28 PM
ofelas
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December 11th, 2004 16:00
And this one fixes a lot of application issues, but it has a couple performance kinks in dual display mode (DVD playback on second display) -
ftp://ftp.dell.com/video/R88801.EXE