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    GeForce 8700M video driver question.

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by B.Wagner, Jun 12, 2011.

  1. B.Wagner

    B.Wagner Notebook Enthusiast

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    I originally posted this question in the M15x area, but I was informed my m15x is considered a Legacy System now so I’m reposting it here now.

    I have a video card driver question. I’m using a NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT 512MB with the m15x_VGA_NVIDIA_Vista_7.15.11.5655 driver off the Alienware page. I recently tried to use the 270.61-notebook-win7-winvista-32bit-international-whql driver off the Nvidia site, but for some reason my m15x does not like it at all. After blue screening once it finally loaded up but it no longer recognized my video card was installed. Once I went back to the old driver everything was fine. My DirectX is up to date as well. Does the new driver not work well with my computer or is there some trick to getting it to work correctly?
     
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    HeMeZ Notebook Geek

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    HeMeZ, Jun 19, 2011
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