Drivers at laptop2gp.com suitable for every laptop?

I have already raised this question in this forum. Most guys say they haven’t experienced any problems with laptop2go.com drivers. And I think there is very good chance that those drivers are safe…

But, many years ago I have experienced a permanent GPU failure due to wrong drivers. I later realized that the drivers I installed were designed for GPU with higher clock speed or something. So I’m guessing that drivers must have forced the GPU hardware to work harder than it normally should. That was a S3 Trio if I recall right. I never forced the drivers, it got installed with no warnings…

1. Could a similar situation occur with laptop2go.com drivers? Because different manufactures have different clock speed etc for the same GPU.
2. What if you install drivers directly from nVidia which aren’t designed for mobile GPUs?

I realized that the DELL drivers are all ancient… so want to install the latest.

Cheers !!!

 

Most likely nothing will happen, I mean it. If you try to install in incompatible Nvidia driver, the only thing it will say is that your device is not compatible, blah, blah, and the installer will exit.

2. You can't install Nvidia's drivers from their site because they are for the desktop varients. You have to have a modified INF and what not to allow compatiblity for your particular GPU.

LaptopVideo2Go has a nice install guide for XP and Vista. You should check that out if you need info on how their modified drivers.

-Mike

 

i think your gpu died because it was an S3 Trio. I've never heard of anyone having major problems with laptop2go drivers with nvidia and ati gpus. i know one person who even installed a driver for a desktop 8600gts when he only had a laptop 8600m gt, and it actually boosted performance.

 

Considering that nVIDIA and ATI both use unified driver architectures, you can't really install a driver for an incompatible card (which is why Aznofazns' friend with the 8600M GT got a performance improvement out of the newer desktop driver). Generally the only thing keeping the drivers from functioning right off of ATI or nVIDIA's site is an INF block on mobile GPUs (and that's really all that the laptopvideo2go.com drivers do . . . they offer you a modified INF).

 

you guys know what sort of modifications they do on the inf file?

I know that the drivers will be compatible, what I’m worrying is whether there will be some miss matches with clock speed etc.

 

You could always download there INF and open it in notepad.. they have a lot of it commented with information.

 

What if I use the DELL’s INF file with nVidia’s latest drivers??

 

I'm not so sure that would work, procxi. They seem to periodically release newer INF files, so a Dell INF file might not be coded properly for the newer driver, and it really wouldn't give you any kind of benefit over just using LaptopVideo2Go's INF file, anyway.