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    The display setup is not optimal.

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by pinoy_92, Jun 29, 2012.

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    i just installed 301.42 on my m17x r1. and when i try to enable the sli its giving me this error. am i stuck on old drivers forever?
     

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    nobody????.......
     
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    What your specs? You probably have some of those 280 or 285m's in sli?? Check the release notes for the driver and see if whichever cards you have are supported. Also, are you sure you downloaded the mobile drivers? I know that it used to be that the nvidia driver site was kind of confusing...but to be fair I have been with ATI for a while now...
     
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    i have 2 260m and yes it is a mobile driver and i got straight from nvidia website
     
    pinoy_92, Jun 30, 2012
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    Well if the release notes say that it supports your cards specifically, I dont know what to tell you... Fail to see how the display affects SLI...
     
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    Maybe it is trying to tell you that the Physx would be better placed on the 9400. Although you have not dedicated it you might find SLI works? Or maybe it's one of those weird hybrid SLI issues that I have read about - this does have problems with the latest drivers :eek:

    In that case you would have to disable 9400 for it to work.

    HTH
     
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    i tried set the physx on everything but still dont work.
     
    pinoy_92, Jul 3, 2012
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    i believe the problem is going to be in your hybrid sli setup. Try disabling integrated video and hybrid sli in bios, then boot up and set your sli and you should be good to go. The new drivers do not support hybrid sli.
     
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    That's what I thought - above... :)
     
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    If that does not work you should probably go back to the DELL drivers, as of my understanding nVidia drivers won't support the switchable graphics.
     
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    this seems to work, but it disables my sound driver. it is easily fixed so not really a problem.

    i would use the drivers in the dell website, but most of those drivers has not been updated since 2009/2010. i probably can not run COD4 on those drivers....
     
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    Headshot! I have been hammering every dell Rep that talks about using their drivers about this. Best response, well the only response: 'Engineering are looking into this but no ETA'

    Come On Dell, SORT OUT YOUR VIDEO DRIVERS!!!
     
    MickyD1234, Jul 5, 2012
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