Help! Problems with installing Nvidia drivers on my Aspire 5920

Hi guys,

I carefully read all the articles with issues about grafic performance in Aspire 5920 so I decided I change the driver that came with the laptop. I downloaded drivers from Nvidia - the new release both English and international and the setup says that it can't lacate any driver that is compatible with my current hardware. Then I tried the laptopvideo2go site but the same happens. I download 32bit vista drivers so what do u think is the problem?

Please help

 

This should help....

(1) You first need to dowload the driver of your choice from www.laptopvideo2go.com.

(2) Next to the download of the the driver of your choice is a .inf file for download, you need to click on it and download that file as well (very small download). So now you should have two files sitting on your desktop.

(3) You then need to unzip the main driver you selected into a folder, then drag the new .inf into it that folder, and click yes to all to replace it with the one that's in there. This will add the mobile card choices into the driver.

(4) Then start the driver update, and locate that driver folder, and grab the .inf that you just placed into it to initiate the rest of the driver installation. You may get several popup warnings, just click ignore to continue with the installation.

(5) Do a restart after the installation, and then check to see if the new driver number is now showing up under dispaly adapter, nvidia, properties within the device manager.

 

works perfectly thanx. but then how do i install drivers from the official nvidia website?

 

>but then how do i install drivers from the official nvidia website?

nvidia does not support mobile video cards on there website... I think, they have, maybe one driver on there for a dell notebook with 7950 but that's it.

The drivers on www.laptopvideo2go.com are mostly from the nvidia official site, as well as some manufactures site(s) (toshiba, dell etc)... They are just modified for all notebooks

Don't worry about it, but will show up on nvidia website will show up on www.laptopvideo2go.com website ready for your use.... (with just a .inf swap that is).

 

Thanx for ur help. I have another problem and I read somewhere it has to do with the video driver. When my laptop goes to sleep it doesn't respond when I move the mouse or use the keyboard. Only driver 158.45 seems to work.

 

If your not into overclocking your video card.... Try the 162.18 driver, they are extremely stable and are great for gameing and benchmarking... They provide super smooth frame rates. Just wait til you see all of the option tabs that the provide. You can even select certain games by name within a drop down menu list, and the driver will be optimised for it.

*As of yet rivatuner/ati tool will not unlock/allow overclocking in the 162.18 driver.

 

Is there any point in installing these updates if you dont play that many games (as I do!). I have to admit I'm finding my 5920 a bit slow with certain apps and video playback jittery, but that may be the codecs I'm using as the video is coming out a bit pixelly aswell (Kazaa-lite codec pack)

Andy

 

Got my 5920G today, downloaded 162.18 and inf from www.laptopvideo2go.com but when I go to install it says that the driver is no better than the one I have installed.

 

You'll get that sometimes... just force the installation through.

 

It wont continue .. just says exit

 

Just follow this;

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=11997

 

I already did ..I wouldn't come in here asking without trying everything first
163.14 install fine but for some reason 62.18 do not.

 

Not sure why?? Try un-installing the previous drivers first, then it will have no choice but to install them.

I havn't tried the 163.14 yet.. But i have read that give poor 3DMark scores.

 

There were no tabs in there at all.
Als installed 62.22 with no problem but I notice the 62.18 drivers on there are for the Asus and are not Nividias own.
When I go to the forum and try to download the Nividia ones they are for XP.

I think their downloads are a bit screwed.

Hmm, just noticed .. 1.38am here .. bit of a time killer this new laptop

 

>There were no tabs in there at all.

Forget about all of those drivers..

Use the 162.18 Vista 32 Drivers and .inf Files found here;

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=13894&st=0&gopid=53391&#entry53391

Yes.. Released by Asus, and optimised/tweaked for gaming. They are loaded with options!!

 

""Is there any point in installing these updates if you dont play that many games (as I do!). I have to admit I'm finding my 5920 a bit slow with certain apps and video playback jittery, but that may be the codecs I'm using as the video is coming out a bit pixelly aswell (Kazaa-lite codec pack)

Andy""

 

Ok, finally got the .18 driver installed and have no dropdown options