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Installing non-official release drivers won't void the warranty, but it doesn't mean they'll support it as well. The best thing you can do if you have a problem and need to send it back, provided it's not outright dead, is to use the restore discs to re-image the drive to the default.
Most computer companies won't support the machine full if you have installed "non-supported" applications. This can include drivers, as in their defense the company has not tested/certified them and therefore can not provide support on it, which is understandable.
do post if you have any luck installing those drivers. the only drivers ive gotten to work on my toshi*ba came from toshi*ba and i have a 7900gtx so there are different drivers i want obviously. i always get errors when trying to install the nvidia forceware evennnnnn. crappy integrated crapola crapster.
I'm running them on mine with no problem. I still can't get HD-DVDs to play with the driver, however (not the Toshiba HD Player or PowerDVD). Over the stock drivers, they do make a bit of difference.
The folks at Anandtech did a
driver comparison from the Toshiba X205 stock drive to the performance of the 163.44 drivers after I mentiond the performance benefit. Long story short, the drivers gave a small boost to most games (average was a 3% boost, but some games had far greater).
awww 84.63 said it couldnt find any drivers compatible :*( but the m1710 from dell is covered ... i wonder if 163.44 will work on a lappy. im going to do some tests. brb.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
