Nvidia is making me mad...

So I've reinstalled windows twice now and still a problem.
The problem is when install the latest gpu driver for my laptop (8800gts... look in sig) the driver keeps saying stopped responding and has recovered.

I finally narrowed this down to it happens with any program that uses gpu acceleration.

Using no drivers doing regular things even with programs that have gpu acceleration work fine, just with no acceleration because there is no gpu driver installed.

I install a driver an I immediately have problems.


I've been trying to find a older driver to try so I go to nvidia's web achieve and see they don't even support 8800m gts...

I've read other people have the latest driver working fine with their 8800gts.

I've upgraded to windows 7 x64 btw.

 

I've been using the 195.62 driver for a while and haven't had any problems.

It doesn't list the 8800M GTS, so I searched in the archived drivers chosing the 8800M GTX, then just look at the supported products.

You can also go to laptopvideo2go.

 

Try 186.81 from laptopvideo2go.com

 

official 186.81 direct from nvidia has been the best for me so far.
they only have gs or gtx. this is the 8800gs 186.81

 

Well im trying 195.55. these problem actually started in december when i installed 195.62. i think 195.55 was the driver i had before so im hoping that works. this was typed on my ipod so sry for any typos.

 

i'd try 186.81... these drivers seem to be stable although i do prefer 195.62 drivers...with the new features...

 

I think i found a fix but have not tried it yet. ive found someone with the samw problen but woth a different gpu and driver. tuey disabled power minmizer through the control panel and i think theny sais it fixed it. IM TYPING THIS ON MY Ipod again.

 

On LaptopVideo2Go they have this cool search for driver page. You can filter it so that the driver natively has support for your 8800 without any modifications.

You need to know your:
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV
SUBSYS

 

you should take the effort it took to type out "IM TYPING THIS ON MY Ipod (again)" and invest it instead into typing the rest of the post more accurately.

 

Sorry, but I did not have a lot of time to correct it.

 

Where do you find this?

 

Go to your Device Manager. In the Device Manager, click on Display Adapters, and right click properties on the 8800.

Look for the tab details and choose Hardware IDs from the pull down menu.

There they.

Found them for you:

http://laptopvideo2go.com/drivers?d...g=0&orderby=version&dir=desc&os=&os[]=win7x64

 

Thanks for your help. Nothing I've tried has fixed it.

I'm going to try some of these drivers and see if they work. They are obviously different then the other ones I've downloaded.

 

Well it took me days of struggle, but I found a fix. A very easy fix at that. Really annoys me when that happens, but you live and learn I suppose.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=273276

That was what I used to fix it. Just turn off powermizer.

Was going to use this, but I ended up needing to pay for it...

 

you tried driver sweeper?

 

Yes, not only did I do that I've done2 if not 3 complete reinstalls.