M1730 Support - New 8800M GTX Drivers or Hardware Upgrade

Question

I realise that the M1700 series has been discontinued - which actually was news to me - but just because the machine no longer exists, there aren't still problems that need to be addressed.  The Nvidia 8800M GTX card is still widely used by other manufacturers and they have new updates for their systems... yet, to my knowledge there has only been one driver release for the M1730 since it was created. Now this may seem strange to the company's bean-counters but, the fact is, laptops are really expensive to replace every two years!  So please, would Dell provide a newer set of drivers for the 8800 version of the GPU? Alternatively; since Dell Support can replace damaged GPUs because of hardware fault, would they be prepared to upgrade my machine to the newer 9800M GTX under the same fee?

TheRealFireblad · Answer

... would Dell provide a newer set of drivers for the 8800 version of the GPU?

Thankfully, you/we haven't needed to use the drivers |Dell provide for over a year now.

Nvidia released their own 'notebook drivers' in December 2008 (IIRC?), so just use those.

Go to the Nvidia website, select 'Geforce 8m Series (Notebooks)' - and the appropriate OS, then click 'Search', to be taken to the drivers download page.

FWIW - although most folks (understandably) prefer to stick with stable drivers, I've personally always used the latest Beta drivers on my XPS M1730, and I've never had any problems :emotion-5:

Hyncharas · Answer

Unfortunately I've already tried the drivers from the NVIDIA site; I keep getting errors with the Control Panel when I do.

This is why I'm wondering if Dell has configured the hardware in a way that only their drivers will work right with it.

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