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    dv2500t/8400M driver problem?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by player_13, Oct 20, 2007.

  1. player_13

    player_13 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I don't know if its just my laptop or a problem with the drivers itself. I'm using the NVIDIA drivers provided by HP from 8/07. Every once in awhile, about an hour or so, Vista says that my drivers have stopped responding, or something, and that it was able to recover. This occurs only when the GPU is under stress, however it doesn't reach that high of a temperature(~61-63C). I was just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this problem or if my laptop is just messed up. I thought it might be due to my low amount of RAM, a lemon GPU, or its just seating incorrectly or something?

    dv2500t
    Core 2 Duo - T7500 2.2ghz
    2x512Mb RAM
    NVIDIA 8400M GS
     
    player_13, Oct 20, 2007
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    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    Upgrade the driver, read the stickies.
     
    Lithus, Oct 20, 2007
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    player_13 Notebook Enthusiast

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    That's just the thing, I've gone through about 3 or 4 drivers from laptopvideo2go.com with modified .inf files. All of them seemed to crash sooner or later when playing games(CS and War3 in this instance). Thinking that it was because those drivers were not specifically designed for the 8400M in my dv2500t, I got the official ones from HP, the latest being from 8/07.

    Drivers I've tried from laptopvideo2go.com:
    163.75
    163.69
    163.44
    156.66

    After all of those, I just recently got the HP stock ones. I think HP using something like 101.XX, somewhere around there.
     
    player_13, Oct 20, 2007
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