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Reinstalling M9750 From Scratch

Discussion in 'Alienware' started by simonmpoulton, Jan 25, 2009.

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Ok so i've come to reinstall my M9750 and cant find any working video drivers. The ones on nVidia's website give a black screen when installed as do the latest on laptopvideo2go. I dont want to go back to using the original crappy alienware ones can anyone give me a link to some drivers which actually work and give a performance increase over the alienware stock ones. Just for information i'm running Windows XP Service Pack 2 at present and my machine has twin 7950GTX's in SLI and yes i followed stone's guide to installing drivers.

simonmpoulton, Jan 25, 2009

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Hamish33 Notebook Consultant

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hey there...I used 7950's with Vista for a bit...179.28 from laptopvideo2go was the best I found...don't forget the modded .inf!
I was using xp before that...I can't remember which forceware I used, but I would start from 179.28 and work back...

Hamish33, Jan 25, 2009

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The drivers from the nvida website do work. You just have to make sure you cancel the setup process after the first card installs, reboot, then install the second card using the have disk method. Reboot again to enable SLi.

Grey728, Jan 26, 2009

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