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    Dell NVIDIA Driver 186.28

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by rubenvb, Oct 11, 2009.

  1. rubenvb

    rubenvb Notebook Consultant

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    Hey nbr users,

    I am in search of the driver number in the title. It came factory preinstalled from dell and I had the installation files on disk, but accidentally deleted them, defragged, and now they're gone (save for if Power Data Recovery can recover them, Recuva already failed at that :( ). Does anybody still have these babies? I ordered my laptop the first of October in Europe, so anyone that has ordered or received their laptop in around now should have these installed. They said they were revision A08, but it's nowhere to be found. These are the only current drivers that would allow hybrid sli stuff to work, so I really need those. They came with a NVDJ.inf and WHQL certificate. I believe the driver date was around 26/06/2009, and I have scoured the dell ftp site for anything released around that date or later, but found nothing. Also laptopvideo2go doesn't have them. Currently running the NVIDIA notebook drivers, but they don't support the hybrid thing.

    Any help is appreciated!
     
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  2. Mr.High-Pinger

    Mr.High-Pinger Notebook Consultant

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  3. rubenvb

    rubenvb Notebook Consultant

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    Sorry should've mentioned I already looked there.
     
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    Chrysaor Notebook Consultant

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    I don't know if it supports hybrid but i recommend 191.x drivers, it enables Aero to run in 2D clocks on desktop.
     
    Chrysaor, Oct 11, 2009
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    rubenvb Notebook Consultant

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    Well, I found something that solves/works around my problem.

    To enable hybrid sli on the studio xps 13, I had to install the Dell nForce drivers (suppose this is necessary), and in turn the A06 dell nvidia drivers (179.82), and then the newest on lv2go drivers (at the time of writing 191.56), without manually uninstalling anything(!). The second driver's install handles the uninstall procedure. So far all is well.

    PS: hijacking my own thread: is it normal that the studio xps 13 falls back on the 9400m G and not the 9200M GS in hybridpower powersaving mode? It seems odd that for powersaving the higher end gpu is used?
     
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  6. Mr.High-Pinger

    Mr.High-Pinger Notebook Consultant

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    9400 is just the chipset, the built in gpu. The 9200 are the extra one, which deactivates when in powersafe.
     
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  7. rubenvb

    rubenvb Notebook Consultant

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    That goes against all sane logic, but OK :)
     
    rubenvb, Oct 12, 2009
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