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    Nvidia 355m new drivers problems?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by Skillman01, Nov 1, 2010.

  1. Skillman01

    Skillman01 Notebook Consultant

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    Hello guys. Today I turn off my pc after installing the new drivers for my gpu. Now I turned my pc on and I see everything BIG. The thing is my screen was on 800x600 and I changed to 1024x768 and I still dont see the display I had before I did my updates. After That I went to the Nvidia control program and it crashes when I try to put my gpu to quality instead of performance. Any help I'm really pissed I dont know what to do. Thanks. An early reply will be much apreciated.
     
  2. slickie88

    slickie88 Master of Puppets

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    Download and install Driver Sweeper, uninstall the nvidia driver, boot into safe mode, run Driver Sweeper removing all nvidia items, reboot, install drivers again.
     
  3. Skillman01

    Skillman01 Notebook Consultant

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    how do you unistall the nvidia driver? And how you boot into safe mode? Can you expalin with details. I consider myself a newbie Thanks slickie =)

    I'm looking for the drivers in my device managers and I see that the intel chipset familiy driver is not working properly so I dont really know what is the problem
     
  4. Rypac

    Rypac Notebook Evangelist

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    To uninstall the nvidia driver:
    -Go the the Control Panel
    -Unistall a program
    -Uninstall the nvidia graphics driver (whatever version you have)
    -Reboot
    -When the alienhead finishes loading and the screen turns black quickly press F8 a few times to get to the screen to select safe mode (this may take a few tries, its a little tricky)

    It should be fairly simple from then on.

    I'm not sure about the intel chipset problem, maybe you should try re-downloading them from the dell/alienware site and installing them again.

    Good luck!
     
  5. Skillman01

    Skillman01 Notebook Consultant

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    So...Do I have to unistall the chipset driver too? Ill do as you guys said. I though the new nvidia driver would help me with fallout new vegas -.- but oh well.
     
  6. Rypac

    Rypac Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm not to sure whether you should uninstall the chipset driver. I didn't. Someone else may know.

    Give the new nvidia drivers another go first, it may have been a random error.

    Hopefully they will help with Fallout New Vegas.
     
  7. Skillman01

    Skillman01 Notebook Consultant

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    Hello I did everything you say and I still got the same problems. Any help?
     
  8. Rypac

    Rypac Notebook Evangelist

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    Sorry bro, I'm not sure what's going on.

    Your display should be 1366x768, which is the native resolution. Try to change to that and see what happens.
     
  9. Skillman01

    Skillman01 Notebook Consultant

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    Funny thing because I dont have it .... ahhh where is stevenx or someone that knows this stuff here u.u
     
  10. Skillman01

    Skillman01 Notebook Consultant

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    OH MYYYY Its everything okay now I think the problem was the intel chip that had problems with the nvdia chip now everything is normal I just had to re-install the intel chip drivers and everything went fine. I was getting scared X.X

    Thanks
     
  11. Cr15py

    Cr15py Newbie

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    where did you get the chipset updates from? I have the exact same problem as you but everytime I try to install the chipset update it says I dont meet the minimum requirments for it.
     
  12. Afterscore

    Afterscore Newbie

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    I'm having this problem too - I've scoured the web enough to know it's the Intel drivers that are conflicting with the Nvidia drivers, but I'm not sure which Intel drivers I need to re-install and the one(s) that I have tried give me an error and stop installing.

    I've been tearing my hair out for months trying to fix this but there is not a single concrete answer anywhere to sort the problem