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    Alienware M17xR1 260m 344.48 driver issue

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by KaityVoivre, Nov 3, 2014.

  1. KaityVoivre

    KaityVoivre Newbie

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    Hello all, I'm new here and a google search brought me here. I'm for some reason unable to install any driver updates on my video card and my games aren't running well on the one from the Dell website. Can someone help me get this driver up to date or as up to date as I can?

    System specs are Core 2 Duo, 1TB HDD RAID 0, 6GB RAM, GTX 260m, running Windows 8.1 Pro x64, A07 BIOS

    <EDIT> I meant to write 340.52 driver, been playing around with my desktop all weekend so the 560's driver number was stuck in my head, but now I'm back on my laptop and want to play some of my games.

    I tried editing the .inf file and replacing 02A2 with 02A1, but it still fails.
     
    KaityVoivre, Nov 3, 2014
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    TomJGX I HATE BGA!

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    J95 is the person to ask about driver modding... He's the expert... PM him...
     
    TomJGX, Nov 8, 2014
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    I searched his username and found a thread he posted in, that showed me that Windows 8/ 8.1 requires using the command line interface to turn off driver signing.
     
    KaityVoivre, Nov 16, 2014
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    TomJGX I HATE BGA!

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