Cant use "Laptopvideogo" drivers after the latest win 7 update

Hi

Just reformatted my PC and installed all of the new Win 7 updates, and now i cant use nvidia 266.35 drivers as i used before the win update .

Need some experthelp

Thanks in advance

 

get them straight from nvidia.

 

Thanks for replying

Cant, because i have a laptopl(Toshiba Qosmion X500). Everything worked fine before the latest win update. Then i try install the 266.35 driver it says "dont find compatible hardware"

 

Forget to say its a gtx460m

 

Are you sure you downloaded the notebook drivers? Assuming you have 64-bit Windows 7, the release from NVIDIA can be found here.

 

Nvidia supports laptops with their drivers.

 

Yes nvidia supports drivers, but not on THIS laptop. The weird thing is that i could use all laptopvideogo drivers before the last win update. And i have reformatted the pc and tryed the same procedure as before with the laptopvideogo drivers, downloading the drivers and modified inf file, copied the inf file in the dispaly drivers....restart the pc and install the drivers, like i said everything worked fine before, but now the driver install says "dont find compatibel cpu"

 

The issue is probably the id strings in the .inf files. For instance the 425m in my XPS 14 has different id strings to identify the card than other 425m's in other machines, so at the start of the install if it doesn't read the correct id strings in the driver it thinks it's not compatible. You just need to copy/paste the correct id strings from a Toshiba driver into the Nvidia package in the right spot.

 

check if the device id of your GPU is in the inf file.

 

Audi, try and use 265.89 drivers from laptopvideo2go.com. I have the X505 Q892 and have uninstalled 266.35 beta and have gone back to 265.89 since they're official windows certified Toshiba drivers. The 265.89 drivers give me the same performance boost as the 266.35 beta, but without the "white screen" crash when using more then 4x aa, and it can also be installed without using a modified inf.

Just download the 265.89 drivers from laptopvid2go and extract then in the extracted folders just click the setup icon. I chose "custom" setup to delete previous drivers, though after cleaning the old drivers it will say that it has to restart your computer and then installation will continue, after it reboots, it will not automatically continue with the install, but you will have to click the setup icon again and this time choose "express" to continue installing 265.89. Hopefully this works.

Oh and a warning, DO NOT use CCleaner registry cleaner or Driver Sweeper. Although it may seem your computer is working fine after using it many times, when you try to install a new driver or even use system restore, it might not work because of crucial registry keys that have been deleted. This is what happened to me when trying to uninstall 266.35 and going back to 265.89.

 

laptopvideo2go have INF files that will have your laptop's GPU listed in it.

The default nv_disp.inf in beta drivers like 266.35 usually only has desktop GPUs listed (hence it can't find one on your system)

What I do, I downloaded nvam.inf (am = asus mobile), either bung it in the install dir that the driver unzips to, or overwrite nv_disp.inf, to get the driver install to see my GPU.

That said I wouldn't bother with 266.35 yet, external LCD connection is broken (couldn't detect a LCD monitor via VGA), I'm back to 260.99 without problems now, and I used Driver Sweeper to do so. IMO I would never roll back a driver without getting rid of all its settings.

At least my temp-based auto-clocking setup with all the nTune profiles was still there. yay.

 

Many thanks for your time my fellow notebookusers.

I now use 266.44 without problem.

Jacob808

Is the Toshiba driver 265.89 the same as the original Nvidia driver 260.99?