9150, issues with 670 drivers

i may have seen something about this posted in the 9150 owners' lounge, but can't find anything now that i'm looking for it of course. and nbr search is nbr search.

anyway, finally got around to setting up my 9150 last night and ran into some issues installing the 670's drivers. shipped with no OS, installed win 7, device manager flagged dGPU as a standard vga adapter and found it to be updated with most recent driver.

i went straight to nvidia for their most recent driver, 301.42, installer couldn't find the card. tried the immediately preceding stable version, 301.34--same result. in a search for the thread i thought i'd seen, i came upon a compatible driver from october of last year, 285.62. tried it and same result, installer couldn't find the hardware.

mind you, clevo's ftp that holds all their drivers is down (at least for me). tried the most recent driver from sager's website, 295.62, and that finally worked. device manager now shows 670, but all other drivers mentioned still 'can't find compatible graphics hardware.'

the only thing i'm thinking is that i haven't yet installed SP1 (machine needs to be plugged in and i'm doing first-time calibration). so in the time it takes for the battery to drain, i'm curious to know if anybody else has faced a similar issue with the 670 in a 9150/p150em. i'm 95% that updating windows completely should fix the issue, but who knows.

 

update: everything up-to-date and still...


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Use a modified inf from here: v301.42 Windows 7/Vista 64bit | NVIDIA Mobile OEM - 30x Series GeForce Driver release - LaptopVideo2Go Forums

 

ah, bingo. thank you.

 

I was going to add, that the recent nVidia 301.42 drivers do not officially support the new graphics cards.
There are only three 6-series graphics cards that are supported by that update, the GeForce GT 635M,GeForce GT 630M,GeForce GT 610M are the only ones listed.

@iaTa, +rep for the modded driver. It seems to help. We won't offer it to our customers as it isn't official support but it's still a great find for those that want to run the latest.

 

Wait... I should be getting my 9150 with a gtx 670m in about a week or so, so do I download the actual driver? or do I download this? http://laptopvideo2go.com/infs/300series/30142_win7x64/nvwi.inf

 

Download the one from laptopvideo2go.

 

Even though I undervolted my GTX 675M to 0.80v through vbios, this modded 301.42 forces my GTX 675M to run at 0.92v. Rolled back to 295.62 and voltage went back to where it should had been. Looks like I'll have to wait for the real official verde driver for GTX 675M to game with FXAA.

 

Have you guys tried the one from sagernotebook?

Software Upgrade

 

I'm sure they have, but for some reason, everyone seem to have this mentality that they absolutely have to have the drivers from nVidia or AMD.

I guess they do have their reasons for it, though I would like an explanation for it.

I've seen older laptops where, if I tried installing the latest allegedly supported drivers by AMD or nVidia they would cause problems. The factory drivers would run just fine, yes even with the latest games. I had one recently that had the 5870M and the AMD drivers caused it to crash, re-installed the drivers from the manufacturer website though and it played SC2 just fine.