vladimir Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Dell's latest driver is 78.11; they seem to push a new driver only once every 6-9 months or so. I've had no luck installing a driver from NVIDIA -- with a modified INF, the drivers install (just tried 83.62), and I can reboot and get to the login screen, log in, see my desktop for about a second or so... and then while windows continues doing startup things, the display goes black and that's it. I still see a mouse cursor, can move the mouse around, etc. If I hit the power key to shut the system down, I get screen corruption while the shutdown occurs. (The machine never seems hung, just black display.) Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 Did you try 83.62 with the original INF. 83.62 is a Dell driver that supports nearly all Dell laptops. You shouldn't need a modded INF with this driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vladimir Posted February 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 Did you try 83.62 with the original INF.83.62 is a Dell driver that supports nearly all Dell laptops. You shouldn't need a modded INF with this driver. Yep, did; the 83.62 from nvidia's site (http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_83.62) only has 4 device IDs -- is ther eanother one? The 81.67 driver has the majority of IDs, but no 00CC device ID. Neither one will install out of the box, but I should try 81.67 with a modified INF.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest vladimir Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 After poking around, I figured you may have been referring to the 83.60 Dell version in the downloads forum -- tried that one, installed fine with no INF changes (but with a WHQL warning); however, same problems on reboot -- black screen shortly after login (login screen itself is fine), then visual corruption. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 Yes, I did mean 83.60 :) So that was a no go either, it's the official Dell driver. Hmmm, not sure what's up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 I don't trust any of these 83 drivers, all give people problems from what I have seen. Try the 82.10 Dell driver without a mod INF, or the 82.12 with Pieter's mod INF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vladimir Posted March 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 Ah ha! The 82.10 drivers are working like a charm.. thanks Bill! This might be useful as a FAQ somewhere, since this machine seems to be quite picky about its drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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