New nVidia Drivers: Dual Boot Vista vs. XP

I'm curious, has anyone had a situation like mine?

As stated in sig, I have dual boot, Vista Home Premium SP1 and Win XP SP2; I installed new beta Vista drivers from nVidia (updated stock HP drivers) and it made a world of difference but when I went to install the XP (32 bit) driver (to update from LV2G drivers), I got a message stating that supported hardware could not be found (same GPU in the same notebook).

I tried uninstalling the GPU and trying fresh install of nVidia drivers, nada. Currently, I'm not unhappy with the LV2G drivers I'm using (all the games I want to play run fine) but, if I can easily update, why not?

Opinions?

 

*sigh* I guess I am alone in the world.

OK, has anyone had an error installing nVidia drivers on their Win XP install?

 

And you're making sure you include the modified .INF file?

 

Thanks for the reply but these are the new beta notebook drivers directly from nVidia's site, no need to use a modded inf; when I installed the Vista version, I just downloaded the Vista version from the site and clicked the 'install' button and it did the rest. However, when I did the same thing with the Win XP (32 bit) version, I got the error message mentioned above.

I am currently using the modded 169 drivers from the LV2G site (in XP) so I can OC (apparently later versions prevent OCing the GPU), I thought the 'genuine' nVidia drivers would be a good update and still allow OCing.

 

Try extracting the Nvidia drivers from the exe onto your hard drive by using WinRaR for example and installing the drivers manually via the device manager ('Update driver').

I'm using Dox's modified drivers in my laptop on XP SP3 (haven't tried official Nvidia drivers) but I tried installing Nvidia's drivers on my cousins laptop (acer 5920) that has 8600m GT and the resolution was on 640x480 (4 bit) ... it refused to budge to a higher res and color depth for some reason (every time I'd change the settings it constantly stayed on the same res).
I also tried manual installation, but it didn't work (my cousin has XP SP3).

I'm using Nvidia's official drivers in Vista x64 on my system though (everything works fine there).

Try it through my method and report back.
If it doesn't work for some reason, then stick to the laptopvideo2go drivers for the time being (until we find a solution).

 

OK, I'll give it a shot and let you know how it goes.

Are you able to OC those drivers? I tried using nTune and Rivatuner to OC the nVidia drivers (Vista 32 bit) and neither application will retain the setting when I go to close out of the program(s).

 

Well, no joy for me. :-(

I extracted the drivers, using WinRAR, and tried to install using the 'Have Disk' method but there are about 10 .inf files to choose (none of which is called nv4_disp.inf, like in the LV2G drivers), so I didn't know which to choose; I also tried to install by allowing the program to choose the .inf, after pointing it at the correct folder and got the same message as before (i.e. - supported hardware could not be found).