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    Crammed a GTX 560M in to my G73SW working, but need driver help! Lets hear some Ideas.

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by Muratus, Apr 10, 2013.

  1. Muratus

    Muratus Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok, finally got my new SW Motherboard and my GTX 560M from a G53SX. I modified the heatsink from the SW and put it on the 560M. The computer boots no problems, Windows 8 loaded. It's using a generic Windows display driver. When I try install nVidia Drives it says that it's not compatible. If I try to manually install the drivers it gives me a message that there was a error installing drivers.

    So Great Gaming G Series Guru's. Lets hear some ideas on how to get this thing running correctly.

    Bit more info:
    G73SW-BST6
    Bios 205
    VBIOS: 70.26.29.00.0F.N48G53
     
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  2. DH48

    DH48 Notebook Evangelist

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    Just a message "Error installing driver" ?

    No ideas on windows 8 but is the driver signature check disabled ? ...should not effect anything if its from nvidia and not moded. Ran the installer as admin i presume. You might want to check if software is able to detect the GPU as a nvidia card or just detects it as a unknown. Even without the drivers it should get information from the vbios.
     
    DH48, Apr 11, 2013
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  3. Muratus

    Muratus Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well got it sorted thanks to someone over at ROG forums. It was the signature driver requirement that was preventing the driver from installing. I disabled that and it installed right away.

    Here is a quick screen shot showing my G73SW running the GTX 560M. I'll post some pic's of the heatsink mod in the morning.

    sys.PNG
     
    Muratus, Apr 11, 2013
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    Verry cool, congrats. Let us know how she runs.
     
    BlueVFRank, Apr 17, 2013
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    dyjin Notebook Enthusiast

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    Nice!!! hows the temp tho when u play games??

    i might do this haha
     
    dyjin, Apr 19, 2013
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