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    Graphic Drivers

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by matt_h1, Jun 10, 2006.

  1. matt_h1

    matt_h1 Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    This may sound stupid but are we forced to rely on sony for driver updates for our graphics cards? I went to nvidia and downloaded the latest geforce drivers and when i tried to install them i got a error msg about a incompatiable card.
     
    matt_h1, Jun 10, 2006
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    go to www.laptopvideo2go.com and look at those drivers...they are modded to work with mobile graphics cards (the drivers at the nvidia website are not)
     
    deedeeman, Jun 10, 2006
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    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    You can get modded drivers, but officially it is the resposibility of the laptop manufacturer to provide updates for mobile graphics cards since they can be modified for use by the OEM's in certain cases.
     
    miner, Jun 10, 2006
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  4. matt_h1

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    Yeah but sony dosent strike me as caring that much once they have made the sale
     
    matt_h1, Jun 11, 2006
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    XantaxNZ Notebook Guru

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    If you like the Nvidia Control Panel, do this to get latest drivers:

    Goto Nvidia website, download latest forceware drivers for the GeForce cards.
    Run installer, it will fail, but will create a folder in C:\Nvidia\....\.... containing all the driver files.

    Download the version on the sony site, extract contents somewhere, like C:\SonyNv. Copy (but DO NOT REPLACE - When asked to overwrite click no on each file) these files from the sony version's folder into the C:\Nvidia one.

    Go control panel, add/remove, remove Nvidia Display Drivers.
    When prompted to reboot click no.
    Go into device manager, expand display adapters, and right click -> remove on the Geforce 7400 display adapter. Now you can reboot :)

    Windows will load, and prompt you that you have a new VGA Compatible device. Click through the installery thing, goto "Have Disk" and load from the NVSZ.ini file in the C:\Nvidia directory.

    It may also ask for drivers for "Default Plug And Play Monitor" or something, just keep clicking okays.

    Once all done, reboot again.

    Hope that helps :)
     
    XantaxNZ, Jun 12, 2006
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