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Kerry Mayton
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July 11th, 2015 12:00
installing graphics card driver
I have bough and installed a 660M 2GB NVIDIA graphics card however the card is not getting detected as GTX 660M in the device manager or during install. It was suggested that I contact Dell and get the latest BIOS version installed for the motherboard. Please if I could get this resolved and get this driver installed, I would really appreciate it. I am running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit on a M17X R3 Alienware laptop
You may have done the .inf mod wrong. I suggest you get the Nvidia driver Alienware has for their latest laptops as you won't have to mod anything (I think).
As well, are you on Windows 8 / 8.1? If so, you'll need to disable driver signature enforcement (you would need to do this if you still want to install your modded driver).
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Posted July 15th, 2015 04:00
It took alot of work, but we finally managed to figure it out! Thank you so much for you help, I really mean it. :) warning to anyone who tries this though......
Save the files with the changed IDs, and do NOT try to do a automatic update in device manager.
Kerry Mayton
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Posted July 11th, 2015 16:00
I am interested in trying to mod it so that it will support my graphics card. Is there a guide somewhere that i can follow to get this done or can you give me some advice on how to do it? Thank you very much for all of you help so far!! [:D]
Just rechecked, and no, but you can mod the file to support it. If you don't wish to, read below.
Or you can download the Nvidia drivers for the most recent Alienware laptops. I think it has support for the GTX 660m. You can find these in Dell's Support site, in the Alienware 13, 15, or 17 R2 page.
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Posted July 11th, 2015 16:00
Does this support NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M athough its not on the list of compatible GPUs?
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Posted July 12th, 2015 23:00
in Device manager it says "Standard VGA graphics adapter" As for the type of card I purchased here is the link:
www.ebay.com/.../201347953129;ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
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Posted July 12th, 2015 23:00
under Device manager it says "Standard VGA graphics Adaptor" As for the link for the card i purchased here is the link:
www.ebay.com/.../201347953129;ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
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Posted July 11th, 2015 14:00
Thank you very much for the reply. Before I start DL this I do no see 660M on the list. Will it still work?