Guest pyl Posted May 23, 2010 Report Share Posted May 23, 2010 Hi, I've been enjoying my new W860CU a great deal, and wanted to throw Windows XP Pro SP3 on it to run some "legacy software" - I generally stick to Ubuntu these days. I've been having a hell of a time finding drivers for the GTS 360m, though - digging all over the place has given me a handful of drivers i can get to install through editing .INFs, and all the ones that appear to install successfully give the same result - a completely black screen when the login screen should appear. After waiting a couple of seconds the backlight even turns off, though the system still appears to be running just fine. I've been wondering if it could be an EDID-issue, but connecting external monitors to either the HDMI or the DVI and hitting the screen-changing button didn't do yield any results. Have anyone here succeeded in getting Windows XP running with a GTS 360m? Could anyone point me to a working driver? I've tried about 10 so far, from 188.43 to 197.45, including Nvidias offical 197.16. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Marley Posted May 24, 2010 Report Share Posted May 24, 2010 The screen-change button probably is handled by some proprietary application that was packaged with the system. Other than that, I would recommend trying a recent LV2G driver with the modded INF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pyl Posted May 25, 2010 Report Share Posted May 25, 2010 I've finally gotten an image to display on the monitor - only problem is, it only appears when i have a VGA monitor connected to the machines DVI port. When i do this, the nvidia driver lists the VGA monitor as the active monitor even though the image is displayed on the laptops internal LCD, and there is no sign of the laptop LCD anywhere. I can't really keep booting my computer connected to a VGA monitor, is there any way to make the driver force LVDS output? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pyl Posted May 25, 2010 Report Share Posted May 25, 2010 Oh, almost forgot - I've been trying something like 10 different drivers from laptopvideo2go, all kinds of versions and with the LV2G modified inf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Marley Posted May 26, 2010 Report Share Posted May 26, 2010 Have you tried using Phyxion.net Driver Sweeper to remove all previous driver files? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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