Sager NP5125 - Video Driver Fixes

Does anyone know how to hack nVIDIA drivers so we don't have to wait for Clevo to release them?

Clevo is already months behind the times and the newest Optimus driver is a huge advantage.

The only help I have seen on this was an Xotic rep saying it was okay that we have to use many month old drivers and that Clevo releases updates in a timely manner. Which is obviously a lie being the newest optimus drivers are already 4 Months old and the only drivers that install are older yet.

I would like to see the mainstread Verde drivers hack to work. I really don't know why they can't work, but even the newest optimus driver would be a huge benefit.

Until this is fixed I would highly recommend not purchasing a Sager NP5125/Clevo B5100M notebook.

 

The hack is pretty much the same as modding drivers for a standard notebook that is missing from the INF. I have posted instructions for some Optimus notebooks that are missing hardware id strings.
EDIT: I already had the driver package for it.
Instructions for editing NVCV.INF in Verde 259.96 WHQL and adding the Sager NP5125. Note: You will find the instructions under "For the Clevo B5100M/Sager NP512"

The version of the drivers may be a little deceiving but the 189 series of drivers are more stable and being released the same time as the 256 series and up.

There are a couple of videos I suggest checking out for Optimus:
How to add games/applications to whitelist (done on Alienware M11xR2)
New Optimus Interface added to 258.96 (How to enable it)

 

Wow thanks this is very helpful. Ill try them out.

 

You are most welcome.
I will be adding the Quanta TW9 & Clevo B5100M/Sager NP512 INFs to the zip file soon. When I do, it will be a simple extract replacing the existing INFs in the driver folder. The instructions will help for future driver releases if the INF is still missing the entries.

Enjoy your Sager NP5125, it is a great notebook.

 

*EDIT*
Works Perfect I am just an idiot that can't follow simple instructions ;p

Thanks for this... This will make many very happy I think.

 

Just a stupid question :
Why you want to hack nVidia drivers ? aren't they going to be installed in any laptop that has an nVidia card like Clevos without any hacking ?

 

Special case for the new Optimus-enabled laptop I guess...
I remember from many months ago Sony Vaio Z-series also requires similar trick to get the optimus working properly.

 

Technically the Sager NP5125/Clevo B5100M was released after the latest Verde set posted on Nvidia, so it is not surprising the 258.96 driver set does not include it. Will have to wait for future sets to see if they include support built in. If not it is an easy fix.

 

How do you enable the nvidia control panel after upgrading?

 

Inside the nVIDIA Control Panel go to view.

 

I probably just fail at life but I tried both copying those lines and extracting and replacing the inf files and it keeps giving me the same error:

"The NVIDIA Setup Program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit."

 

Unless I got it wrong too...
You suppose to start the installation first, let the .inf extracted to the /Windows/inf folder, edit out the .inf, and resume the installation.

 

I must be particularly daft, as I've read over those instructions a number of times and that doesn't seem to be what they say at all. Besides, I can't edit the .inf folder in the Windows/inf folder, it won't let me save any changes.

Here is what I did step by step:

1. Downloaded the installer, let it do it's thing so as to establish the appropriate folder (this installer gave me the aforementioned error, naturally).

2. Opened the nvcv.inf file in the newly created Display folder

3. Edited the particular entries indicated

4. Run setup.exe from the Display folder.

I get exactly the same error I started with.

.... AND nevermind. I was apparently supposed to run setup.exe from the "International" folder not the "display" folder therein.

I'm posting this long post anyway, in case somebody else was utilizing similar reasoning and hitting a dead end.

 

Well... It installed, but now the NVIDIA driver's not showing up in my system tray at all. Joy!

 

I have the same issue. The only way I could find is it was to right click on the desktop then click nVidia control panel but I don't think it's the full control panel.

 

You use 7zip to extract the .exe archive to a folder.. Go to that folder and then to the display folder and edit the .inf..

Run setup from the display folder.

To enable the tray icon open up nVidia controlpanel and go to view. It should be pretty obvious which one you need to activate from there.

 

OK, I got a couple points for my problem
when installing the driver the entry

was not under tag

instead it was under the tag

There's similar entry to %NVIDIA_DEV.0A29.04% = Section044, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0A29&SUBSYS_71101558 under [NVIDIA_SetA_Devices.NTamd64.6.1] (but it was Section045 instead of Section 044), so I proceed deleting this line and replace the 3 lines as instructed.

Now the problem here, during install, there's windows notification that says windows can't verify the publisher so windows prompt me whether I really want to install it.
I chose yes.

After installing this driver, none of my RivaTuner and HWmonitor can read the temperature from my GT330. Albeit, my HWMonitor stop responding as soon as it runs.
When I tried to uninstall the driver and back to normal graphics card driver from windows, HWmonitor works again, but no reading from my GPU. Only processors, HD, and battery information.
I didn't try to set rivatuner when I uninstalled the driver.

After reinstalling, I'm back to the problem: HWMonitor can't start because it stops responding as soon as it starts.

Did any of you run into this problem? (especially the prompts when you try to install the driver)

Edit: I've attached the HWMonitor screenshot when I used default driver from windows.
Edit2: Added screenshot for prompts when installing the driver

UPDATE:
I tried going back to 189 driver supplied by driver CD, both HWMonitor and RivaTuner can't read the value from GPU.
but when I downloaded GPU-Z, it can read the value. This is weird...

 

Just start over, and forget about replacing entries... Just paste the entries under the sections you are told.

For all of your other things I fail to see what the issue is, did they work before or ever? The driver works fine?

 

Well... I guess it suppose to work, doesn't it?
I don't know whether it works the first time I install the driver from CD, because I haven't installed rivatuner and HWMonitor before I update it to 258.96 driver. But uninstalling the 258.96 driver and reinstalling the 189 driver still doesn't make the value readable from HWMonitor and rivatuner

 

I have added the Sager NP5125 INF to the zip file follow the easy install instructions at the bottom of the post ( LV2G).

 

Thanks, Nautis.
I shall try it again.