GTX 260m Problem?? Or something else

I just recently bought an alienware m17x laptop and it came with Dual NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 260M, 2GB – SLI® Enabled.

The problem is when I try to play a game on my computer I get the following message



Here is what it shows in my device manager:



Could the device with the yellow warning symbol be the problem? When I click on that to update it it says that it is the latest driver.

When I went to the automatic nvidia.com search for drivers it said the following:

Product Current
Installed Driver Latest Driver
Update
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G -- The manufacturer of this system requires that you download the driver for your GPU from their support site.

The GeForce M series and GeForce Go series notebook GPUs use drivers that have been customized by the notebook manufacturers to support hot key functions, power management functions, lid close and suspend/resume behavior. NVIDIA has worked with some notebook manufacturers to provide notebook-specific driver updates, however, most notebook driver updates must come from the notebook manufacturer. Additionally, the desktop GeForce graphics drivers will not install on Geforce M series and Quadro M series notebook GPU's.


Help me please? I spent alot of money on this computer, it would suck if I couldn't play anything on it because of one problem.

 

I'll take a stab at this one - guessing here since I don't have my system, but could it be the chipset driver (MCP79)? Perhaps a reinstall of the driver would clear it up?

NVIDIA MCP79 Chipset
Release Date: 7/27/2009
Version: 2.03, A01

See:
http://support.dell.com/support/dow...1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=27&fileid=329587

Download link:
ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/chipset/R229514.exe

 

I'll go try that and let ya know how it goes.

 

Its either that or you need to update your video card drivers which will in turn also update the 9400M. Since you are on 179.85, you could always give the 186.12 (which Dell/AW released as an update to the 179.85 for the M17x).

Main info page for the 186.12:
http://support.dell.com/support/dow...-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=6&fileid=324207

Direct download link:
ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/video/NV_Notebook_Performance_Driver_V64_July_2009.exe

Later when you feel more comfortable, you can also give some of the modded drivers a try.

 

I still get the same message after trying the first thing you posted, heh *goes to try the second*

For all I know they installed something wrong and want me to groan lol or this game doesn't support the card or something sinister like that.

*goes to try it*

 

Ouch - well, hopefully the driver update will work. It just himt me - that warning dialog, thats from whatever game you are trying to load. You do have your 260's active - correct?

 

*Is shocked* It actually worked!!! No message!!!

And active? lol say what? /lost again

*Goes back to being happy that it worked*

 

Well, glad it worked. What I was asking was if you were running with the 9400 handling your display and not the 260Ms. Thought that might be playing into it - but no worries. All is sorted for now.