m9750 Downloads - Drivers / Apps

Last Updated: 11/4/2009
Last Updates: Ricoh R5C833 Media Reader

Manufacturer Drivers

NVIDIA GeForce (v186.81) Vista / Win 7 [09/10/2009]
These are the Nvidia Drivers

NVIDIA GeForce (v174.16) - Recommended for Vista SP1 and XP SP3 Users XP x86 / XP x64 / Vista x86 / Vista x64 [02/25/2008]
These are the LaptopVideo2go Drivers

NVIDIA GeForce Go7950 GTX (v169.28) - Recommended for XP/Vista Users XP x86 / XP x64 / Vista x86 / Vista x64 [12/18/2007]
These are the LaptopVideo2go Drivers

NVIDIA GeForce (v174.74) - Latest for Vista SP1 and XP SP3 Users XP x86 / XP x64 / Vista x86 / Vista x64 [03/28/2008]
These are the LaptopVideo2go Drivers

Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet (v11.22.3.3) Any OS [10/29/2009]
Gigabit Ethernet Driver

(NEW) RealTek High Definition Audio (v2.48) Any OS [04/10/2010]
Sound Driver

Synaptics Touchpad (v14.0.3) Any OS [10/29/2009]
Touchpad Driver

Broadcom Bluetooth(v6.0.1.6200) Any OS [03/29/2008]
Bluetooth Driver

(NEW) Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG & 4965AGN (v13.1.1) Vista / XP [03/03/2010]
Intel 3945ABG Wireless Driver

Optiarc AD5540A Modded Firmware Any OS [02/15/2008]
DVD Drive Firmware

(NEW) Intel Chipset Driver (v9.1.1.1020) Any OS [10/29/2009]
Chipset Driver

(NEW) Ricoh R5C833 Media Reader Any OS [11/04/2009]
Media Reader Driver

Official Alienware Drivers

NVIDIA GeForce Beta (v179.13) Vista x86 / XP x86 [09/29/2008]
These are the Official Alienware Drivers

NVIDIA GeForce Beta (v175.28) Vista x86 / XP x86 [07/25/2008]
These are the Official Alienware Drivers

NVIDIA GeForce Go8700 GT (v156.72) Vista x86 [10/10/2007]
These are the Official Alienware Drivers

Camera Driver (v6.32.0.2) Vista / XP / Win 7 [Mirror]
Updated camera driver for Windows XP and Vista

7950GTX Video Card BIOS BIOS 1 - Daughter: 5.71.22.49.27 / BIOS 2 - Parent: 5.71.22.49.22
Updated Bios for the 7950GTX Video Cards

Motherboard BIOS Windows XP 0F04 / Windows 7 & Vista 7314
Updated Bios for the 7950 Motherboard

Recommended Utils

Driver Sweeper
Helps completely remove drivers

HotKey (FingerTouch Keys) Utility
Helps VISTA users Configure FingerTouch Keys

nHancer
Nvidia Control Panel replacement and feature shortcut

Notebook Hardware Control (NHC)
Easily control the hardware components of your Notebook


Benchmarking Tools

3DMark06
3D Benchmarking, Industry Standard

3DMark Vantage
DX10 3D Benchmarking

UT3 Bench
UT3 Benchmarking

Crysis Benchmark Tool
Crysis Benchmarking
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* Official Allienware Drivers are stable and tested by Alienware
** All dates are [Month/Day/Year]

 

This is just a start, let me know if there is anything I've missed or should add. I'll need help from you BluRay guys, if you hear about any new BluRay drivers let me know.

Later

 

Good job and thanks for linking the hotkey changer, been searching eith google and couldn't find anything on AW site either that allowed me to change them

 

My PowerDVD updated itself automatically for Blu-ray updates.

 

I'd suggest you use Alienwares Sound / wireless / touchpad provided drivers. In my experience they are much better. They seem to just work better for me.

 

I have no complaints at all for my touchpad drivers using vista tbh..

Although i never use them at the same time.

 

I completely agree with Stone the Alienware drivers are the most stable drivers available. BUT every once in a while you'll find an annoying bug that only a new driver will fix. I had a bug with my m7700's touchpad, Synaptics fixed the issue but Alienware never provided a Official driver to fix the bug.

 

Yea, it makes sense that they would not update the drivers sometimes, so I see how using the manufactures drivers could help.

 

Added Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet (10.51.1.3) Driver

 

I would be careful of AW graphics drivers. I haven't tried the latest one yet, but from my experience with previous AW graphics drivers, they don't work very well.

 

the new AW driver is works good. Very stable, unlike the previous one. No more Boot, crash, boot, crash, loop. But it can't quite match the performance of 169.25 driver. Crysis is unplayable with 167.45 AW Beta Driver, but it is a dumb game so who cares

 

I am using the Beta AW drivers and I am getting better performance from all of my games. This includes crysis. All of the laptopvideo2go drivers were bad on my system, and don't allow external monitors. The AW beta driver does. Don't know what I did right or what people are doing wrong.

 

I'm sure it has something to do with the crappy SLI support in Vista.

 

may i ask why aren't you people using the 169.28 drivers? they are awesome for me, GOW,UT3,COD4,Blacksite are51,Bioshock,Blackbox.. even JKA xD

 

169.28 actually slowed my machine down compared to 169.25. I made some other tweaks to vista since than, I'll run some FRAPS over the weekend and see what happens.

 

Hey brainer, just out of curiosity, what kind of framerates are you getting with unreal tournament 3, in places such as the center of the deck map, or ontop of the shangri-la bridge? I get massive fps slowdowns there where it drops from 60 down to 45. They say this is a processor issue, but I kind of doubt it. Im running with

2.16 processor
2 7950 GTX's
2 gigs of ram
Windows XP
167 Beta Drivers

Whats ur setup btw?

 

Added the Following Drivers here

RealTek High Definition Audio (v1.85)

NVIDIA GeForce Go7950 GTX (v171.16) - Latest (Not Optimized for Performance)

 

I really appreciate this thread eightd.
Keep it up!

 

Agatius i dont really know, but i think what can solve your problem is the Driver on tweakforce.com , See the 169.28 Beta RC2, its the best driver i ever tried, its made for pure performance, but sad i'm under Crappy Vista so i'll still have SLI problems ^^

 

Caffeinated, Thanks.

 

I use the alienware stock drivers and they are by far the most stable and have the best performance for me. I can run bioshock, COD4 etc on max settings and resolution with perfect frame rates and smoothness! Tried all the others and although the pcmark did go up, the performance in all games was not as good as the aw stock drivers.

 

what's your screen configuration ? 1440x900 ?
can't run stalker with Nv 167.46 ! always crash in first movie and then... it freezze ! but it's the best for TrackMania...

 

no it is 1900x1200, and this is what I play all games on and stock drivers really surpass all the others in terms of performance, stability and rendering power for me

 

Added NVIDIA GeForce Go7950 GTX (v169.32) Driver seems to be optimized for Crysis.

 

after trying a couple different versions I ended up settling on 169.21 -the only problem I have seen is some choppy parts while playing crysis. Mostly I'm playing COD4, occasionally breaking out a game of Unreal Tournament 2k4 or Battle field 2142 (the latter 2 are big hits at LAN party nite in these parts!) - but COD4 works flawlessly on 1440x900 with all the settings maxed out, UT2K4 and BF2142 run flawlessy at 1920x1200 with all settings maxed out. The m9750 is a BEAST! I'm getting between 8200 and 8400 on 3dmark06 at default settings with the 169.21 drivers - I'm glad I didn't wait for the m17x...

 

Just Added:

NVIDIA GeForce Go7950 GTX (v169.61) - Said to add 150 points to your 3dMarks score, I'll test it over the weekend.

RealTek High Definition Audio (v1.86)

nHancer - Nvidia Control Panel replacement and feature shortcut

 

Just added:

NVIDIA GeForce (v173.65) Recommended for UT3 players. Getting some insane Frame Rate gains.

 

Just added: Benchmarking Tools

3DMark06

UT3 Bench

Crysis Benchmark Tool

 

Which one are you talking about ? Nv 94.23 ?
I should bench it !

 

someone has REALLY got to sticky this thread. how bout it Chaz?

 

I agree with the sticky. This thread has helped my computer so much. I think everyone should get a chance to see it.

 

Cool, I'm glad you find it helpful. I'm not sure but this thread may not be general enough to be stickied. The Mods my not have seen your requests yet.

 

I installed both Vista SP1 and the 173.65 nVidia drivers and my system is much faster/smoother than it was before in UT3. Major gains from those two updates.

 

I've just fiddled for hours with the 173.65 driver trying to get it to work but whenever i activate sli i get bugged. Whenever i right click my desktop i get the message "windows explorer has stopped working ..." then my desktop reboots/reloads itself. This happens every time i right click on my desktop

 

Man I didn't notice the right click crash until you just pointed it out. Sucks, that is the only major issue I have so far. Hopefully this will be fixed in the next driver.

 

Not to be an a** but i'm happy it's not just me.

I was thinking that mb i was noobing up somewhere during install.

 

LOL I just reinstalled and it still crashes. It is definitely the driver.

 

The gain you get from that driver is totally sick tho. In WoW i gained +40fps(!!!) over the stock aw drivers. And it runs sli a lot more stable for me too, i'm keeping em even with that annoying glitch

 

Just added:

NVIDIA GeForce Go8700 GT (v173.80) - Recommended for 8700 Users Vista

 

I still vote for a sticky tbh!

 

I'll send a PM to Chaz

 

I found http://www.pbus-167.com/ to be a handy tool for this laptop. Only thing that bugs me is that it doesn't detect our HD's.

 

Yeah NHC, I can't stand it. It is probably me, but it seems to keep changing my power mode to Balanced even while plugged in.

Anyway, I'll add it to the tools section.

 

Hmm, doesn't do that here, but i don't have it running all the time either. I just load it when i want specific info (can it find your HD's eightd?).

 

Sticky request granted, thanks for sending me the PM. I unstuck the m15x lighting issue since there is a link to that in the m15x FAQ. On NBR we like to keep the number of stickies down to about 3 or 4 so I had to unstick one.

 

Gotcha, too many stickies are annoying. Thanks.

 

No, it doesn't. I couldn't get it to work with my m7700 either.

 

Just Added:

Notebook Hardware Control (NHC)

Notebook Hardware Control helps you to:
- control the hardware and system power management
- customize the notebook (open source ACPI Control System)
- prolong the battery lifetime
- cool down the system and reduce power consumption - monitor the hardware to avoid system failure
- make your notebook quiet

 

Just Added:

NVIDIA GeForce (v173.90)

Pretty much the same performance as 173.80. Experienced a 4 FPS gain with Crysis (Low, medium), but still can't run using High mode.

 

hi everyone, this is my first post on these forums. hopefully this is the best place to ask this driver-related question: i have an m9750 and i'm having a problem with the marvell yukon ethernet controller. i'm at a university where the other computers in the office, connected to the same ethernet jack, measure 50-80 Mbps on an online bandwidth test ( www.speakeasy.net/speedtest). when i'm using only the built-in wireless card, the bandwidth measures what i would expect it to.

the problem is when i connect the ethernet jack. the internet slows to a crawl (with or without the wireless radio activated) and is so slow i can't even successfully do the bandwidth test. i used "update driver" in the device manager and windows found a newer driver, but not the newest one that's available that you've linked here.

when i try to run the setup.exe for the latest driver, it says "software already installed. please uninstall." i've uninstalled the device then tried to run setup and i get the same message. if i uninstall then restart the computer windows just finds the existing driver and reinstalls it. does anyone have the non .exe version of the driver with a .inf?

is anyone else having problems with the marvell yukon ethernet controller simply not working? this is very frustrating because i have 100 Mbps internet available and right now i'm forced to use wireless @ 10 Mbps. big difference!