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    Can't find origanal video driver for p-6860fx

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by mechrock, Aug 26, 2008.

  1. mechrock

    mechrock Notebook Evangelist

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    Does anyone know where to find the original video driver for the p-6860fx laptop.
    It has windows 64 bit vista still installed on it. I download the new drivers from Gateway's website and I've been getting blue screens.
    It says "irql not less or equal"
    At least I think that is what it says. Does anyone know about this blue screen.
    Is it even related to the video driver?

    Also are there better drivers I can download from a different web site that would give me better results in games?
     
    mechrock, Aug 26, 2008
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  2. Andy

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    Check out LaptopVideo2Go or Nvidia's home site.

    irql not less or equal - is definitely driver related. It means that the driver was trying to access a higher memory address which was kinda illegal for it and it did not have any permission/right to access it.

    Is there a Minidump folder in the Windows directory ??
     
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    Yes I think so maybe I can get it before the dump finishes and restarts my computer. That's not much time i have to take a picture or something.
     
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    If there is a minidump folder in the windows directory, upload the latest minidump file....

    (Are you able to log into windows ?)
     
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    Yes, the only time the bsod happened was when I played an online game.
    I have not tried another non internet using game yet.

    I thing I forgot to mention was that I change my router encryption to wpa2 with aes instead of wpa and changed my laptop to aes too. This was supposed to get me N speed on my wireless card which it did. The Problem happened right after i changed this setting. Could there be any coincidence? I only 5 days before updated the graphics driver. I did not have any problems until i changed the router could this have anything to do with it?

    The router is a DIR-625 D-Link
     
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    correct to needing the modded INF file. just replace the file that comes with the driver with the modded one.

    as for physx, you'll need to download this first
     
    Diablo, Aug 26, 2008
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