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July 26th, 2008 13:00

M1710 ISSUES

I am well past my warranty, now to  the good stuff, my laptop was top notch, until one day i was in a hotel and got a virus, needless to say it got past the pccillin that was factory installed, i had to wack the hard drive and start over from scratch, i noticed in another message that was posted on here that dell doesn't have the right drivers on the cd for the XPS's, had i know that i would have bought something else, but i have had no luck installing the proper nvidia driver i have the 7950 GTX, dell swears up and down that the one on the cd is the correct one well they are wrong, i have the game Tom Clancy's Double Agent, with that game it had a hardware detection, before i got the virus i had check marks acrossed the board, now that i have reinstalled the driver from the cd and the one from dell and the one from nvidia and alienware, i still have a video card driver issue with that game, as i am unable to complete it because i keep walking through things, stairwells, walls you name it. what can i do to fix that problem.  As far as watching movies i have a problem that i think is related to the video card, i have to watch all my movies from media player because my powerdvd says that my tv output is not functioning properly??  also i have Assassin's Creed, it used to play but when i put the cd in to play it i get to the autorun feature and it almost starts the game then i get a popup that says please insert the original, i have the original.  I have windows xp media center, duo centrino 2.2ghz, 4g ram anything else you need to know just ask

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July 27th, 2008 19:00

sorry to hear that you have to start from scratch because i had to start from scratch as well trying play around with my partitions...

 

I wasnt give the OS or the drivers DVDs/CDs from dell when i got my laptop so i rang them and asked for them and got them soon

 

I installed some drivers, not the graphics card, from the cds so i have a wireless internet connection and everything

 

then some drivers are automatically updated by windows update and then some drivers are avaliable online on dells website

 

but as for the graphics card drivers go to laptopvideo2go.com or guru3d.com

 

i got 177.72 which i downloaded from guru3d.com and works really well as i can easily play games like Crysis, COD4, Kane and Lynch: Dead Men, Gears of War (well this crashed half way through which is another matter) with no problems at all

 

try that and see if it solves the problems with the games and the videos...

 

hope this helps

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July 28th, 2008 18:00

Make sure you use a 'drive sweeper' from guru3d (or another maker). It'll remove all references to the messed up video driver and allow you to start with a clean slate then install a mod'd video driver as referenced in the previous message. Sadly it seems the mod'd drivers work better for providing all we all paid for than the Dell provided drivers.
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