280m Help.

Im doing a experiment with a 280m card and my M15x, Ive read from different people that it can be done, even saw so on this board.I put the card in and apparently its not being recognized. When I try to install a currently downloaded Nvidia driver it just says that no hardware was found. Any ideas?

 

well your booting up so thats good. have you tried doing it manually in the control panel?


wow sorry for the multi post something must of glitched. hopefully the mods will remove it.

 

I have not tried, what exactly do I do?

 

extract the driver and remember the location. then go into the control panel and go to device manager. under the display adapters, right click your card and select properties. go to driver tab and select update driver. then select browse my computer for driver software, and choose the location where you extracted the driver.

 

The problem with that is that "Standard vga" has automatically installed so there are no Nvidia devices listed there.

 

yeah still do the same steps, hopefully the new driver will overwrite the vga one.

 

Ok just a update, after a bit of searching I found out that you have to get a driver and manually install it from this site "Laptopvideo2go". Version 182.46 works, others might as well. This is just in case others are having trouble.

 

thats nice to know, glad you got everything working, now let see some benches, heheheh

 

No need to go into any great detail but how does the 280m fair against the 5850 (clocked to 5870 speeds even?)

 

Well the 280m was scoring in the early 5000s in 3DMark Vantage.. I dont have a 5850 but my 5870 scores late 7000s early 8000s, and higher OC'ed. So I would go with the 5850.

 

Good to know, appreciate the reply. +Rep for getting the 280 working btw!