Trouble: Nvidia notebook driver on HP laptop

In order to gain CUDA support for my nvidia 8400m gs video card, I downloaded the latest notebook driver from Nvidia website directly and installed it on my HP 2500t custom order laptop recently, so far, I have experienced frequent system hang, sudden blue screen of death, lost of display and system overheating. I am considering reverting back to HP stock video which is a bit old and has no support for CUDA.

Has anybody else tried the new nvidia video driver for notebook? what is your experience with it?

 

Come on, no one care to comment or share?

 

I've tried the most current NVIDIA.com notebook driver (v179.48), and it works just fine on my dv6500t (has an 8400M GS). Could you list the specifications for your computer as well as the OS and software that you're running? We'd also like to know more about the symptoms as well and any other observations that you may have noticed when the problems you mentioned above begin to occur.

 

It's possible that your GPU is in the process of failing, in which case I hope your notebook is in warranty. The enhanced warranty to cover defective NVIDIA chips generally only covers AMD notebooks:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=c01087277

 

Please do not try to update your drivers from vendor websites because many drivers might be incompatible in ur laptop. You can easily go to hp.com and update your NVidia drivers.

 

Thanks for the reply, Evil.

hp.com is the first place I looked, the video driver available there for my dv2500t CTO with nvidia 8400gs m was last updated in 2007 and does not support CUDA.

8400GS M does support CUDA but needed latest driver from Nvidia to run, maybe you can ask HP to update their nvidia driver ASAP?

 

That is what I suspected as well, however, after checking the website with my product ID, apparently my notebook is not included in the enhanced warranty program. Does that mean that my notebook is not affected by the faulty Nvidia chips? I don't know. All I know it has been working fine before I updated the driver to the Nvidia beta.

 

I will try my best....I will get in touch with my team at office today and let you know about the link to download the latest driver for NVidia supporting CUDA

 

Basic Info of the notebook:

HP dv2500t CTO
CPU: Intel C2D T7300
GPU: Nvidia 8400M GS
RAM: 2GB
OS: Vista Home Premium 32bit

The bottom of the laptop is hotter than before after I upgraded the video driver, I think.

Sometimes the screen will just go dark, but the system is still running. if I connect an external monitor, the desktop will show up and I can safely shut the computer down.

But sometimes the screen will just freeze and look like this:




then followed by a BSOD.


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It means that your notebook is affected but HP won't do anything about it.

 

Looks like HP screwed you over too.

MF SOBs got me too with the 8400. One day it suddenly goes all purpley/liney on me.... then a few BSODs... and then boom. Nothing.

SOBs man. Best part is my laptop isn't covered...... YOU DBAGS..... ALLLL 8400 ARE MESSED UP... REGARDLESS OF THE CPU... THE CPU HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BLOODY GPU YOU F'ERS.

Man. The sad part is that I go buy the bloody HP 22in LCD. The bloody HP quickdock.

The kicker? This is the REPLACEMENT laptop the DBAGs sent me. So far, I have gotten TWO laptops from HP---> BOTH have f'n died. The first AMD one melted. Now the nvidia GPU evidently melted also.

FFS.

When I get back stateside... I am going to call the bloody case managers (thank goodness I saved the #/extension so I won't have to bother with customer service).... and I am going to rip them a new one..... 3209408 new ones at that. They might not send me a replacement or fix it... but man.... one man or woman is going to go f'n deaf by the time I am done with them.

OH. Lest I forget my bloody 250gb Hitachi died a few months ago but I didn't feel like going a month without my laptop so I just went out and bought one..... FFS.

 

yes they will. ask for a case manager tell him you have a defective 8400. Only the case managers seem to know about the issue, but once you talked to them and tell them you have the defective 8400 they send you a box free of charge. got mine fixed 3 months ago for free. They obviously put another defective card in, but at least the fixed it.