Vista 64 and 9800m gt driver

These are the drivers I have used:
180.74
180.48
179.14
177.98
176.37

All of them are freezing up on me, I am running vista business 64, Some of these drivers let me run 3d06, and maybe even last a few hours before freezing up. Some just freeze up right away. Once they do freeze up, I can't even boot back into windows, it freezes at log in screen, than I have to reboot in safemode and delete the drivers.

In between each install I run driver cleaner. I am wondering if perhaps it is another problem, all these drivers can't be bad.

Specs:
Alienware m15x
2.6ghz
4 gigs kingstone hyperx
Nvidia 9800m GT

If someone knows a driver that works with my card, that would help, until than i'll keep searching. and yes I am using the modded INF files.

 

are you DLing the optimized ones for a laptop from laptopvideo?
are they 32 or 64 bit compliant?
are you sure your not getting mixed in there somewhere since you appear to have two 64 bits OS's and one 32?

 

All the drivers are from laptopvideo.
all 64 bit
All OSes are on different partitions.

 

i'm running 179.14. other versions were giving me problems...

I hope you find a solution to all this... eventually I want to upgrade to your card!

 

Give these a run.. Xfastest's 180.70 - They should treat you very well. Sorry, you gotta figure out how to read the foreign language to find the links..but a monkey could figure it out.

 

I tried 179.14, same problems, freezes up after awhile.

I'm bout rdy to just go back to 32 bit, till AW gets their crap figured out.

 

Eh, I wouldn't blame it on AW just yet. They don't currently support Vista 64 (nor do they offer it) for the m15x though it'd be really nice if they did.

 

I blame them for not offering it, I mean cmon, what other company doesnt offer 64 bit.

 

Yeah, that's why I said it'd be really nice if they did.

In any case, I'll be looking into your problem for the next several days and will see if I can come up with any workaround for your problem. I won't promise you I'll find results, but I will promise you that I will dedicate some time looking into it. Thanksgiving break is coming up very soon so I'll have plenty of time to look into it for you. =)

 

if you dont spend all of it eating and playing L2....

 

Eh, I actually haven't played L2 for 3 weeks. I've lost most of my interest in it. I still have it paid for, but I'm not too sure if I want to pay for it next month or the month thereafter.

 

understand i do. my time away from home gives me the breaks so when i get back in between times its like starting all over again.

 

Ah. I still have yet to finish COD5, so I may be playing that for a few hours during Thanksgiving break. Otherwise, I'll be sticking around on the forums like I usually do. 8)

 

Hey thanks for the help, but I've got to wonder if it is the video driver. I just tried 2 more, and every driver I try has the same problem.

I also updated my chipset, what else could it be if it is not the graphics driver?

The last twho drivers I tried are 180.43 and 178.24.

 

What happens when you put the original AW driver back on?

 

I am running 64 bit, the original AW driver is for 32 bit.

 

Don't know if you want to try this, but ... I have 176.23 loaded on my ASUS 15.4" with Vista 64 and am having no issues. Card is similar - 9800M GS.

 

I should mention that 176.23 is what came with the unit. I have no idea if Asus modded the inf.

 

Thats ok, what I would like is if there was a 179.13 for 64bit.

 

Was about to go from 32bit Vista Ultimate to 64bit. After reading this thread not sure if it is a good idea.

 

wow. just wow.

I don't have the patience right now to explain just how irrelevant all this should be to you... but I will say, all this should be irrelevant to you.

 

There are lots of people who have got 64 bit working very well, I am bound to think it has got to be me. perhaps the order in which I installed everything is causing me grief, I just cant see how all those drivers are causing the same conflict.

I installed 178.26, and soo far it crashed twice, but than has been performing well, only giving me 9600 3d06 scores, but allowing me to play, FPS in cod4 is around the 60-70s. on high settings.

I'll keep you guys updated on how it goes, and thanks to ALL who have helped.

 

Going to give it a try next week. Can always go back to 32 bit if all fails. May need help from the experts on this forum.

 

So far I have tried 8 different drivers,all giving me the same problem, so I decided to start over from the beginning, following every step precise and after 5 hours, a new install, I am still getting crashes. I am going back to 32 bit.

 

I really wish I had a Vista-64 disk on me so I could see if I could replicate the problem.

How are your partitions set up at the moment?

 

It is already said and done, all Ive got left to install now is the command center, and i'll be a 32bit user again.

Thanks to all who tried to help.

 

Hmm, I'm really curious now. I'll get Vista x64 myself to see if I can replicate the problem. Since it seems like more people are switching over to Vista x64, I think it'll be a worthwhile experience to see how it reacts to the m15x.

 

I ran out and got a copy of Vista x64-- and I have to say the installation was seamless. Managed to get everything set up properly in about 3 hours. I'll test out 3DMark06 in a bit.

How were your partitions set up anyway?

 

I had my 320 cut in half giving half to vista64 and half to xp64.

both were primary drives.

 

Than I did a fresh install on the whole hdd with no partitions.

 

Ah. Hey Steven, do you by any chance have MSN or AIM?

 

hey guys, so if we're buying an m15x we shouldn't get 4 gigs cuz they won't all be used on vista? without upgrading to 64 bit of course....

 

Well, you can if you want. It'll only utilize 3GB, but you'll still be able to run in a dual-channel configuration. If you put in (1) 1GB stick and (1) 2GB stick, you'll only be running in a single-channel configuration.

 

^^^ what he said.