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    Win 7 & 8800mGTX

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Showtime008, Oct 27, 2009.

  1. Showtime008

    Showtime008 Notebook Guru

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    Hey guys,

    Just installed a clean version of Windows Ultimate x64 on my Sager 5793 today. Was disappointed to find out that my 8800mGTX was not recognized by the computer. The computer says that I have Standard VGA graphics adapter. I obviously don't. I had the beta version of Win 7 32x and everything ran just perfectly. I really hope you can help me out with this!
     
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  2. Anthuzad

    Anthuzad Notebook Consultant

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    Go get your latest drivers either from laptopvideo2go.com or nvidia.com - wether you want modded desktop drivers or whql certified laptop drivers is your choice. Oh and if you ever need to get rid of that 8800m gtx, I would be very grateful to buy it off of you to go sli with my laptop here :p
     
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  3. Showtime008

    Showtime008 Notebook Guru

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    Thanks, other than the fact that I should have thought of that in the first place. Thanks for the quick reply too. I can always rely on this site for all of my bone head moments
     
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    I can say that the 8800M GTX runs flawlessly with RTM Win7, I'm currently using Forceware 186.81 nVidia OEM driver
     
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    OT- How do you like Win7 compared to XP in gaming? I'm contemplating installing Win7 as it is running pretty smooth in our laptops but this one only gets used every once in a while, mainly for gaming.
    specs: Sager M570RU, 8800M GTX, T9300, 4GB RAM

    Thought and/or opinions welcome.

    Disregard, just noticed the Win7 drivers are for the M570TU.
     
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