X205 sli 1 and vista 64

Has any tried putting 64 bit vista on x205 yet

 

Jesse did a week or two ago, had it working with all drivers I believe, but went back to 32bit Vista do to some program compatibility issues. But, it can be done and has been

 

I was wondering if any1 had tried it

 

Yeah, I got everything to work except the fingerprint reader, some of my applications did not work so I went back to 32bit version, good thing I had previuosly installed 32bit version and made a complete system backup with Acronis True Image ver. 11 and used this to simply start the process to format the drive and perform the restore operation from within vista 64bit and then restore the 32bit version and it worked great and I did not need to reactivate vista, so now I am using True Image to keep a backup of vista ultimate.

 

i'm using vista ultimate 64 on an x205-s9800 with no hitches at all with the drivers.

 

okay I'm new to computers and this site I got my x205 sli1 back in December and was trying to learn more about this notebook because I instantly fell in love with it. I googled x205 sli1 and it got me here. I've been reading the posts from be77solo, chosin, jesse6749 and others and it really seems yall are computer wizards, hackers whatever, you know what I mean. I had problems in the beginning, being new to this, of downloading new drivers for the nvidia cards, when the 169.xx where what was being discussed here, anyway to make a long story short, I browsed the site again and saw 17.43 drivers out and I got tired of waiting for toshiba to put official ones on their site, so I took another chance and tried to download them from laptop2govideo or something like that, and on Monday I finally accomplished that! So I got brave and down loaded rivatuner and again, my 1st ever overclock! I read somewhere here someone using 555-565/1130/837 as a stable setting on their sli1 so I tried that and tried playing Call of Duty 4 at max settings online, then after about half an hour the system crashed I don't know if it was due to overclocking or some bad connection but I got nervous and stopped using overclocking. Can anyone answer this so I can have peace of mind. How long can I leave that setting on without doing anysort of damage to my computer? can I leave 565/1130/837 as the default without shortening my notebooks life, or does overclocking always do damage (i.e shorten gpu life) everytime you use it? and how long can I expect my computer to last is it months, years? How long do you keep your overclocking on?

 

Good to hear you're getting it all working like you want, and glad we could be of some help... it's hard to say what caused your crash, and like you said may not be related at all to the video overclock... a good thing to do is monitor the GPU temperatures, rivatuner can do it, or there's quite a few other programs you could use. That overclock is not that high, so you probably won't have any problems with it, but each GPU is different and responds differently to different overclocks... ie, what works on yours might not work on mine or vice versa, so it's kinda of just a test and see.... if you ever start seeing artifacts in the graphics or wierd lines/ colors, or unexpected stuttering, then back down the clocks, cool everything down, and try a lower setting and see how that does.

As for temps, don't be suprised to see them in the 80'sC, mine sometimes hit the low 90's. Just monitor what they run at stock clocks, overclock a bit and see how that effects them, etc. I'd recommend not going much higher than the low 90's, some say that's even too high, but others also argue they can go higher than that.

I overclock a bit in some of the more demanding games, but I don't keep mine overclocked... with the 171 drivers i'm using I'm using Ntune to overclock, as Rivatuner was giving me problems and not actually overclocking, so i just open up the Ntune control panel, bump the clocks for the newer games if i need or want a bit more speed, then drop them back once i'm done. I honestly don't think that it will shorten the life noticeably, as I'll probably be onto a new laptop in a couple years or sooner, and the GPU's should last much longer than that, even overclocked occasionally for games. For me, it's more of just a temp issue which can cause stability (crashing/freezes) than a longer life of the gpu issue.

Ok, sorry, got to typing there a bit wordy and long... hope that helps a bit, it's really a bit of just trial and error and not overclocking any huge amounts at once without playing a bit at lower settings and stepping up. And like I said, most of what I play doesn't even need the overclock with the SLI GPU's, so it's more of just a tinkering/ playing with it thing.

 

I quit overclocking the gpus in call of duty 4 you should update the graphic drivers then change the settings in the game not to the highest settings. My laptop dont crash. I also did a clean install of vista. I also disabled the indexing in vista.

 

I recently backed up my XP install with Acronis True Image and for fun re installed Vista 64bit and was able to get everything working and in case I go back to XP which will happen soon I backed up the Vista 64bit with Acronis as well this way I never have to do the normal installation and won't have to re activate vista again, but Vista 64bit is working fine so far.

 

i found drivers for the finger print reader but no program to run it anyone know anything? also i am wondering how to get the integrated web cam to work in 64 bit these are my only 2 problems right now if anyone has any ideas would be greatly appreciated thanks.