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    Need help downgrading P-7811FX bios

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by myztikgohan, Jun 10, 2011.

  1. myztikgohan

    myztikgohan Notebook Consultant

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    I want to go from 9c.23 to 9c.17 but whenever I run the exe I get a

    Driver(WDM) Init fail!(0x137)

    error. Every other forum post I've read someone has the same problem and then everyone ignores it for the rest of the thread.
     
    myztikgohan, Jun 10, 2011
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    Anyone? Running Windows 7
     
    myztikgohan, Dec 4, 2011
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    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    My experience was that the nVidia drive would not alow it, there are other posts in the forum. Not sure of their cures..............
     
    TANWare, Dec 4, 2011
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    I've read like five threads. None of them have mentioned any sort of 'cure'
     
    myztikgohan, Dec 4, 2011
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    bring up my post
     
    myztikgohan, Dec 18, 2011
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    I no longer have a P78 as I've modded to a P79. Again my cure was to have the windows nVidia driver installed at the time of bios change.............
     
    TANWare, Dec 19, 2011
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    bump for help
     
    myztikgohan, Dec 28, 2011
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    Thhe Driver "(WDM)" error is the video driver causing an error. You need to use the official "Windows 7" driver not a driver from nvidia..................
     
    TANWare, Dec 29, 2011
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