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    GTX 260m Drivers for Gateway P-79

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by bimmerboii, Jul 25, 2010.

  1. bimmerboii

    bimmerboii Notebook Consultant

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    Hi, I need help on finding the right drivers for my Gateway P-79. The laptop originally came with Windows Vista. Had it for a few months now and I did a fresh install of Windows 7 x64. Now, I couldnt find any drivers that would install. I am always greeted by a message that I have the wrong driver..
    I tried looking for the drivers on Gateway website, but they dont have it there! Gateway Support - Drivers & Downloads 7 (64-bit) They seem to only have drivers for the 9800m gts.

    Any help is appreciated!
     
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    Hello_Moto Notebook Evangelist

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    i dont bother with Gateway drivers for gfx. Either use the official nvidia ones or try some from laptop2video.com
     
    Hello_Moto, Jul 25, 2010
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    bimmerboii Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks for the reply. I tried drivers from laptop2video.com but when I try to install i get greeted by a message: "The NVIDIA Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit."

    Why wont it install the drivers?

    edit: I cant find the GTX 260m drivers on Nvidia's website.
     
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    update: finally got it to work, had a read on the sticky here. Needed to replace the modified inf file 'nv_disp.inf' into the extracted driver directory overwriting any existing files. Whew!
     
    bimmerboii, Jul 25, 2010
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