The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    7805-U with Windows XP and Nvidia System Software

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Keith, Feb 24, 2009.

  1. Keith

    Keith Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    889
    Messages:
    788
    Likes Received:
    221
    Trophy Points:
    56
    If I install Windows XP Pro 32bit on this laptop and then try to run the Nvidia System Software (tried both 6.02 and 6.03), it will not let me overclock the video card. As soon as I go into the Nvidia Control Panel and select "Device Settings" under the "Performance" tab, the screen flickers and then the system eventually hard locks and requires a forced shutdown.

    I've reloaded the system several times, even tried different versions of video drivers, with the same result every time.

    If I do this in Vista though, everything is fine, so it seems to be an XP issue.

    For those of you that have put XP on one of these laptops, with the Nvidia System Software, do you have this problem too?
     
    Keith, Feb 24, 2009
    #1