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    Question on NForce Drivers - need help

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Fezziwig, Dec 18, 2010.

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    Well, it looks like I somehow got NVidia Forceware Network Access Manager installed on my on my M17x R1 -- likely through installing some nVidia forceware drivers. Apparently, it is some sort of firewall. I would like to uninstall it, however, when I last tried it, I no longer had internet access, likely because I need to now reinstall the ethernet driver.

    So, my question is this...what version of nForce are we running in these M17x R1 machines? What the heck drivers should I be installing for the ethernet card? Am I going down the wrong road here for drivers?
     
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    UPDATE: I determined that I recently installed something from Microsoft that udpated nVidia forceware and it was causing the issue here. Weird. Did a restore to get back to before I installed it.
     
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