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    Alienware Vs 64Bit

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by steveninspokane, Dec 15, 2008.

  1. lufusol

    lufusol Newbie

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    The Vista 64 nVidia 176.37 driver package provided by Alienware does not seem to work for me either on this m15x with the 8800M GTX. However, I found that you can extract the contents of AW's executable using 7zip. It extracts to another executable. Extract that too (yes, it's a compressed file within a compressed file) and you will get a folder full of the REAL installation files. Included in them is UnsignedAutoAccepter_FR.exe.

    If you run setup.exe from the twice-extracted files, it's just like any other manual nVidia driver installation. During installation Vista 64 will warn that the drivers aren't signed and you have to click to manually allow them anyway. This is probably what the UnsignedAutoAccepter_FR.exe is supposed to do during the silent install (if it worked).

    I was also able to get the latest 181.xx drivers from laptopvideo2go.com working (you need to swap the modded .inf of course).

    Happy Drivering (and New Year!). That reminds me, try not to driver drunk tonight.
    -Luf
     
    lufusol, Dec 31, 2008
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  2. steveninspokane

    steveninspokane John 14:6 - Only ONE Way!

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    do you have 8800 or 9800?

    and thank for the info.
     
    steveninspokane, Dec 31, 2008
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