Totally confused, Dell Vostro 1500 is screwed up or something.

I get that error trying to play Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War.

1. I can't figure out which nvidia drivers support my 8400M GS. 8 Series, 7 Series, and Go 7900/Go 7800 don't work.

2. DX9.0c is apparently already installed.

3. WTF

(Changed thread title, problem solved, read on)

 

Its the 8 Series drivers. Are you getting this error in Vista?

~Fred

 

I'm in XP Home. I tried those first. The drivers are already installed, it just gives me that error!

EDIT: When installing GeForce 8 Series:

 

There's a fix suggested here by "PsychoKL." I don't know if that link will continue working, so I'll quote him...

and later he posts

 

In regards to the error that you recieve when installing the Geforce 8 series drivers, are you using the modified .inf's available on laptopvideo2go? Most of the drivers available at nvidia's website will not install unless you are using a desktop video card, or those modified .inf's.

 

I have a fresh Vostro with no non-preinstalled drivers.

Code:

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;
;	nVidia
;
begin vendor 0x10DE

	configfile nvidia.txt'

	; disable drivers prior to version 52.16 (previous versions have quirks with directx 9 in win98)

	begin version 0x0000 0x000D
		allowdevice 1
	end
	begin subversion 0x0000 0x0009
		allowdevice 1
	end

	begin build 0x0000 0x1459
		allowdevice 1
	end

I changed the first three "allowdevice 0" to "allowdevice 1".

It appears to be working. However, the mouse scrolling and minimap are glitchy. Thx