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Nvidia video driver is incomplete
The Nvidia video driver R296609 is incomplete. It does not apply properly via OSD in sccm, or even manually once the laptop has Win7 on it.
I downloaded the R297609 driver from the dell driver website for E6420 which contained some extra folders and files in the root directory. As a test I removed the extra folders and files so the package looked like the one from the cab bundle and the driver failed to apply again. If I leave the package as is with the extra files and folders then it applies no problems. The person who put the cab bundle together has taken too much out of this package in an effort to minimise it and I'm not sure how it got through testing.
Testing was done on Win7x64. We don't use x86 but it would probably be the same. The E6520 also uses this driver and it's the same deal in that cab bundle.
I downloaded the R297609 driver from the dell driver website for E6420 which contained some extra folders and files in the root directory. As a test I removed the extra folders and files so the package looked like the one from the cab bundle and the driver failed to apply again. If I leave the package as is with the extra files and folders then it applies no problems. The person who put the cab bundle together has taken too much out of this package in an effort to minimise it and I'm not sure how it got through testing.
Testing was done on Win7x64. We don't use x86 but it would probably be the same. The E6520 also uses this driver and it's the same deal in that cab bundle.
DELL-Warren B
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August 30th, 2011 23:00
The Win7 cabs were the priority, updated XP cabs are in testing and should show up soon.
DELL-Warren B
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August 30th, 2011 23:00
ArmitageID
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August 31st, 2011 07:00
hotrod694
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August 31st, 2011 08:00
mpauchet
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October 4th, 2011 03:00
I tried to install the new R312009 nvidia driver v268.83 on an XP SP3 that was loaded with the A01 cab file and it failed. several different attempts to install the driver in other ways (update it from the device manager, or 'install' the NVDM.INF directly all ended with an error that not all needed files were found.
the Dell log of the installation only provides an error 1603 error code which is probably the most mysterious one ever invented by MS ;-) and without verbose MSI log not possible to find out why.
any suggestions?
Maarten