nVidia 186.03

I was wondering if any of you have installed the 186.03 mobile drivers for your 9M series laptops?

I wasn't sure if it was OK to install something other than the OEM driver that came with the laptop.


It is a 17" 5797 with the 9800M.

 

Alot of us use nvidia's drivers or even modded 3rd party drivers. I use stock nvidia drivers.

 

Yes it is best to update your driver to the last one. If you would get the laptop today, it would have the 186.03 driver on it. Just choose your card on the download section on nvidia.com and it'll show you the driver you need
I use stock nvidia too.

 

Hi zman21 and welcome to NBR

it is actually recomended to update the drivers to the latest ones from HERE (use drop down boxes to change card type and operating system used).

ill post a quick guide soon as you will also need to download a driver cleaner and run it in safe mode to totally remove the old driver.

the 186.03 actually brought my temps. down by 3-4c


edit:

to check what drivers you have loaded >>
Right click on your desktop >> NVIDIA control panel >> system information (bottom left) and it will list the driver 'forceware' version.



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Here's a step by step guide on the best way of updating the drivers:

Download driver cleaner here: http://www.kobaltcomputers.co.uk/drivers/DCProSetup.exe
this is a great program which will delete all traces of drivers as sometimes when you uninstall them they leave behind files which can cause issues when you come to install new drivers. We’ll use this in a minute

Download the latest drivers for your operating system 32/64bit in post above.

Extract/ copy the files to a temporary directory such as c:\temp


Go to the control panel > program and features > scroll down the list and find NVIDIA > then select NVIDIA and click uninstall. It will ask if you want to restart the system.. click yes

Press F8 on startup and go into windows in safe mode.

Run driver cleaner and select NVIDIA drivers.. then clean.

Go to the control panel > system> device manager > graphics card. Right click on any present and click uninstall

Restart the system and go into windows normally. Install the NVIDIA drivers listed above which you put into a temporary folder

Restart the system.. and fingers crossed all should be well!

 

Thank you for everything!