houman Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 ^wow... that IS weird... why do you have such a monster laptop if you game on your desktop BTW??? wouldn't it have been better to buy a thinner & lighter laptop? True, but at the time Dell had 750 of 2k coupons, and I wanted a 7 series, and I thought I would be on the move and would have to sell everything including my desktop, etc. I looked at thinner laptops (fujitsu lifebooks), but I always have been picky about the videocard/cpu combo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sampatterson Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 FYI, The Vista 9746 drivers (dated Dec 18 06) on now on Windows update as a Microsoft driver now, even for all the NVidia GO laptop variations. You can do a windows update and get the "official" version from Nvidia/MS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bedrock Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Really? Mine says 'No new updates are available for your computer.' and I have the MS WDDM 96.86 driver installed :) -- bedrock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sampatterson Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Really?Mine says 'No new updates are available for your computer.' and I have the MS WDDM 96.86 driver installed :) -- bedrock Maybe it is only for certain cards? I have a go 7900 in my dell XPS 1710 and it downloaded it when I checked for updates this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bedrock Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Definitely looks like certain cards only, maybe even only 7900, the update is showing on my work PC, which has 7900 GS -- bedrock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny0583 Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 First, the update wasn't available for me, too. I booted into safe-mode, deinstalled my vga-adapter (including activation option to delete driver files), let windows install the 96.86-drivers out of the box, booted back into normal mode and Windows Update offered me the new driver. Regards, Benny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qyqgpower Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 I've recieved the update, see the attachment. so it shoudn't be a 7900 only update :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bedrock Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 :) I still have no windows update for this If anyone with the 0398 DeviceID has this Windows Update can you please tell me Maybe is because windows does not install the driver itself, i have to go to Show All Drivers, and select the 96.86 manually to install that -- bedrock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny0583 Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 Did you try this? I booted into safe-mode, deinstalled my vga-adapter (including activation option to delete driver files), let windows install the 96.86-drivers out of the box, booted back into normal mode and Windows Update offered me the new driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bedrock Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 Yes i did try that, but it didn't help me, i guess i just have to wait.... -- bedrock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cakeod Posted December 22, 2006 Report Share Posted December 22, 2006 Hmm...installing the official windows update driver kills the nvidia control panel...thats no good... Guess its back to the unofficial one for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HvacTechIV Posted December 22, 2006 Report Share Posted December 22, 2006 :) Drivers working well for me, thanks fellas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cakeod Posted December 22, 2006 Report Share Posted December 22, 2006 Hmm...installing the official windows update driver kills the nvidia control panel...thats no good...Guess its back to the unofficial one for now. On further inspection, I noticed that the Nvidia control panel is still available and functioning if you access it from the Windows control panel. I guess the Microsoft driver simply removed the link to the Nvidia panel from the right click options on the desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerjo Posted December 27, 2006 Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 With my laptop and video card, this driver doesn't have multiple monitor support (display properties SEES the display, but enabling/extending does nothing). Glass also doesn't run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerjo Posted December 28, 2006 Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 An update on this, I rebooted this morning, and I had glass running for a couple minutes before it switched back to the "normal" Aero style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabrice Roux Posted December 28, 2006 Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 When Microsoft is taunting the end users... Hey this is what you should have if you had a PC matching the minimum specs for Aero Glass. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerjo Posted December 28, 2006 Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 Yeah, that's totally not cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeroen Posted January 5, 2007 Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 Did I miss something, or did it take nVidia take up to three weeks to post these on there site ? I just read about them on a dutch news site (tweakers.net), looked at the nVidia page, where it says these were released today... Is this a re-release (like that happened with some other drivers) or are they really this slow ? :) anyway, started playing with Vista on my laptop a few days ago, guess I'll have these ones a test drive as the boot flickering is quite irritating! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bedrock Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 Did I miss something, or did it take nVidia take up to three weeks to post these on there site ? I just read about them on a dutch news site (tweakers.net), looked at the nVidia page, where it says these were released today... Is this a re-release (like that happened with some other drivers) or are they really this slow ? :) anyway, started playing with Vista on my laptop a few days ago, guess I'll have these ones a test drive as the boot flickering is quite irritating! Hi Jeroen, I have Sony Vaio FE21S with same GeForce Go 7600 (same subsys id also), but on my laptop, all newer drivers apart from the 9686 that get's installed by default caus a problem with display going off when i close lid, and not coming back on when i open lid :) Can you let me know hoe you get on with your laptop, as now nVidia have released 9746 i was going to try upgrading again -- bedrock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeroen Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 At the moment, I'm using 96.85 under Vista, which works quite well, though I didn't test any games, because I just have none, and video playback is rather quite low quality (guess the VMR fix will make this good again). I will test these drivers later on today and will let you know how things went! On the other hand, did you mange to install the Fn-key driver and stuff ? As the Fn key isn't doing anything here, so I can't adjust the brightness and stuff... tried to install all needed XP drivers, but that didn't do a thing.. Also my S1 and S2 buttons aren't working... Volume buttons are recognized automatically by all OS'es I've tested (XP-Vista-OSX). Jeroen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bedrock Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 None of my Fn keys work either :) But i think it just means we have to wait for Sony to update the drivers, on the Club Vaio forums they say they wont release Vista driver until Vista is available to consumers, but that is only 24 days now, so hopefully at end on Jan we will have support for Fn keys in Vista -- bedrock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeroen Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 oké I hadn't got the time to test the drivers, but I will do it one of these days (maybe today) I will be switching to Vista after my exams, which start next week and end up at the beginning of february :) then there propably will be drivers available! The audio driver is available already, which fixed incompability problems with my docking station, using standard drivers caused vista to not recognize my dock... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeroen Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 Tested these and I've got the same problem, will use another working version :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®®® Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 redone the first post thread with new LV2GO Driver Template (plus added changelog info as driver was released officially on 5th of Jan.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jo233 Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 I have a Dell Precision M90 with a nVidia Quadro FX2500 and I'm trying to install the latest drivers (97.46) from Nvidia. The laptop is running Windows Vista Business. I keep running into this message saying that the drivers are only for Windows Vista, but that's exactly what I've got. The driver setup program then refuses to continue. Has anyone come up with that or know of a solution? Maybe a different set of drivers? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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