Trouble with XPS 17 and Windows 8 graphics

Hi,

Windows 8 has not been officially released yet and the drivers for the same are not available as of now.

You may try to install the video drivers in ‘Compatibility Mode’.

For that, you may download and save the video drivers for Windows 7 on the desktop. Please perform the following steps to install the drivers in compatibility mode:

1. Right click the .exe file for the drivers that you saved on the desktop.

2. Click Properties.

3. Click the Compatibility tab

4. On the compatibility tab, check the box that reads ‘Run this program in compatibility mode for:’

5. Select ‘Windows 7’ from the drop down menu.

6. Click on OK.

Alternately, you may choose to ‘Run the compatibility troubleshooter’ on the compatibility tab.

You may also check if Windows 8 compatible video drivers are available on the manufacturer’s website. The manufacturer for integrated video adapter for your system would be Intel. The discreet video card, NVidia GeForce 555M, is manufactured by NVidia.

The drivers for Windows 8 would be available on Dell website after the official launch of Windows. Once our product group has tested Windows 8 on Dell systems, they would come up with the required drivers and post them on the Dell support website. Windows 8 releases on October 26, 2012.

Changing the operating system would not affect the hardware warranty of your Dell system; however, it would void the software warranty.

Hope this helps. Do write back for further queries.

Thanks Gaurav, I've tried compatility mode, but it doesn't and various drivers but it doesn't fix the issue. Is there a schedule for the release of drivers we can refer to ? Also are there any beta drivers available ? Thanks.

Thank you for the response.

I understand that the drivers did not work in compatibility mode.

The date of release for Windows 8 is October 26, 2012 and the drivers should be available after that.

However, we cannot commit as of now if the Windows 8 drivers for this particular system model would be available on our website.

The beta drivers compatible with Windows 8 for the NVidia GeForce 555M video card have been released by NVidia. You may visit the following link for NVidia website and download the drivers:

www.nvidia.com/.../notebook-win8-64bit-302.80-preview-driver.html

Please let me know in case of further queries. I will be glad to assist.

The drivers above do nto support hybrid systems

Hi,

It seems at this moment there is no update of Windows 8 beta drivers from NVIDIA for Hybrid SLI technology.

Hopefully,NVIDIA would release the Windows 8 compatible drivers soon.Dell should also update the drivers after the official launch of Windows 8.

Please reply if you have any questions.

I know this is a slightly older post, but just thought I would clarify that pretty much all nvidia drivers say this and it is not related to Optimus and Optimus has worked fine on all those I have tried.

I'm having the screen flicker issue on Windows 8 if I'm running off battery. All the drivers are up to date.

What's the solution? Also, I had to revert to the Windows 7 trackpad software - hopefully we get gestures soon.

I am also having the same issue. Using Dell supplied Windows 8 drivers that are available on the Wiki.

en.community.dell.com/.../4194.xps-l702x-windows-8-64-bit.aspx

Using Dell A19 BIOS, this has not resolved the issue.

1. Clean installation of Windows 8 Pro
2. Turned off auto-obtain drivers
3. Installed Chipset drivers
4. Installed Intel display drivers
5. Installed Nvida Drivers 

Likewise although I have only installed the new drivers over the existing ones. I installed every one of the listed Windows 8 drivers including the A19 BIOS. It has made no difference to the flicker on battery. Patiently waiting for a solution.

Can anyone from Dell shed any light or report this issue please?

I recently updated to Windows 8 pro on a Dell XPS 15z. I have downloaded all the update drivers for both Nvidia and Intel HD graphics. I have also flashed the BIOS. Still having the flicker problem when running on battery power. I also have a Dell ST2210 22" monitor to extend my display. Seems to operate okay, the resolution is not nearly as good as it was in Windows 7. More than anything both of these problems are an annoyance.

FYI. I reverted to the Dell provided Intel HD Win 7 64-bit driver that fixed the same Win 7 screen flicker issue, but then could not get past the Win 8 login screen (rebooted several times). Could not find any F8 or safe boot options for Win 8 Pro (presumably there is something?), so I had to restore using my Win 8 Pro DVD and the System Restore image I took before loading the old Win 7 drivers (phew!).

I did upgrade to the A19 BIOS before loading Win 8 Pro (upgraded from Win 7 SP1 Home Premium). No issues installing and taking the updates.

So, looks like we wait for Intel (Dell) to provide a Win 8 fix. Hopefully this affects all Intel 3000 graphics/NVidia dual graphics systems, otherwise we'll be waiting a long time!

The other issue I notice is that the XPS L702x fan is running a lot more again now. I set the 'Manage 3D Settings' in the NVidia Control Panel to Integrated Graphics, but the fan still runs a lot of the time. I need to explore the battery options a bit more I think.

When I dropped the Monitor refresh rate settings to 40hz it seems to fix the problem on my computer.  But who wants to live with 40hz.  It will work until Dell fixes the problem with the drivers.  

I've notice that my XPS17 now, with Win8, runs for 2hours on battery. With Win7 I could stay 5h30m! It seems that It uses always NVIDIA card. I don't see the flicker that it does on Win7 when I switch to battery mode, when the PC stops using NVIDIA and start using Intel Graphic Card.