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    Nvidia drivers for vista on dell xps m1710 video card????

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by jabbok, Mar 11, 2007.

  1. jabbok

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    anyone having problems with the video drivers for vista I have the geforce go 7950 gtx video card in the dell xps m1710 notebook which after I did a clean install of vista, vista runs fine except when I try to run a screen saver or play a regualar game of spider solatare the system will give an error nv4 mini.sys error do a memory dump and reboot the system, I have already downloaded the proper vista drivers tried the beta driver nothing helps has anyone else had this problem?
     
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    Not getting a nv4 error. I was seeing quite a bit of screen flashing and redrawing (screen blanks and then refreshes) when using the Vista32 Geforce 7900GTX driver from Dell.

    Haven't tried any of the beta drivers from laptop2go or other sites yet.

    nVidia and Dell better get off the bottoms soon and start supporting Vista -

    The MS Vista default driver for the 7900GTX is ok for now - but it is limiting my options with some of the games I have installed.

    Any other M1710 7900GTX owners find a decent driver??
     
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    Where you using the drivers from FEB 20th?
     
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    wackyT posted a link for the 32 bit and the 64 bit drivers for vista in the windows os software software under the windows vista "windows experience score" page 11, I downloaded the 32 bit driver and it worked for me
     
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    I tried Dell's v.97.46, A01 - dated: 1/19/2007

    also tried the Dell v.98.09, A03 (driver for the 7950GTX)

    both produce flash/screen redraws.
     
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    Yep - that is the A03 release for the 7950GTX. Produced the same flashing on my lappie.