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    Nvidia GeForce Go 7400 drivers for Vaio SZ453NB?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by CraigF, Apr 15, 2008.

  1. CraigF

    CraigF Newbie

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    Hiya. I recently bought myself a Vaio SZ453NB which came with the default Vista Business setup.

    I'd like to update the drivers for the Nvidia GeForce Go 7400 GPU but I'm having trouble figuring out how.

    Windows Device Manager says my Driver Date is 22/11/2006 & Driver Version 7.15.10.9735.

    Can anyone point me in the right direction?

    Thanks in advance.
     
    CraigF, Apr 15, 2008
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  2. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Greg, Apr 15, 2008
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    Also, read the instructions before you install the drivers.
     
    Lithus, Apr 15, 2008
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    hendra Notebook Virtuoso

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    Your Windows or applications may have problems with inf modified drivers from laptopvideo2go.com (mine did). If you want the official drivers, you should download and install the driver for VGN-AR7 series.

    http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-download.pl?mdl=VGNAR790UB&upd_id=3312&os_id=30

    All Sony Nvidia drivers are universal and should work with any Sony model. But you have to use Universal Extractor http://legroom.net/software/uniextract to manually extract the file and by pass the model checker.
     
    hendra, Apr 16, 2008
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    CraigF Newbie

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    Thanks all.

    I went to laptopvideo2go, got a little confused, posted here, got some more advice, updated my driver & have had no problems so far. I didn't even have to use the modded .inf file.

    Thanks for the advice.
     
    CraigF, Apr 23, 2008
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    robohgedhang Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi Craig, does the brightness control work with the driver you installed?
     
    robohgedhang, Apr 23, 2008
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