GTX 560M and Windows 8 success??

Has anyone had success upgrading to Windows 8 AND getting the GTX 560M to work properly on their m15x? I haven't had success. Any insight would be great! Thanks.

 

For the record and curiosity, what kind of issues are you experiencing with the 560m and I'd assume you've tried newest and older windows7 version nvidia drivers! Although now I want to see other posters who are running W8 w/ an nvidia card. Only posts I've seen are red sided.


I only have 2 amd/ati cards. And can tell you, any newer than 12.8 won't adjust brightness but all else works with a 5730m. 7970m is displayout probs.

 

Hi Daverish, I tried exactly the same thing I did for Win7, which is in dutchess63's thread, http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m15x/602655-m15x-gtx-560m.html . All I got was a driver failed dialog box. I can't remember the exact wording. I do remember it wasn't very verbose, just that driver failed. It was somewhere in the middle of the driver install that the installer stopped and displayed a dialog. After I cleared the dialog, the nvidia installer main menu was still visible with 'failed' written where 'success' should have been, after the various components. I know, my fuzzy recollection probably isn't helpful, but that's all I can remember. I'm just hoping somebody smarter than me gets it to work and shares the knowledge.

 

Have you tried to install the drivers with Driver signing enforcement disabled?

Enter this into cmd while running it as admin in Win8, win+x key and click 'command prompt (admin)'

bcdedit -set loadoptions disable_integrity_checks
bcdedit -set testsigning ON

Try to install the drivers again, if successful. Enter the samething except with testsigning off. Please post here or pm me with how this goes. While im not a green team and nvidia user currently on my m15x. I believe the issue here is perhaps related to w8


Update: I just subscribed to this thread and while im a moron with forums. This'll entail I know when anyone responds. Hoping I or anyone that responds will be able to help you sort through this issue as personally I believe your issue is related to windows or a driver inf type issue. And, please don't think of others as smarter or above yourself, everyone has their own strengths and differences no matter what they might know!

 

I'll give that a try, thanks.

 

I've got the same issue on my m17x r3..

I tried your driver signing fix and it didn't work for me..

This graphics driver could not find compatible graphics hardware.. is the error message.. it doesn't pass the system check portion..

I've tried the latest NVidia driver, and all the available drivers from the dell support site.. but no luck there

Curious if it's my bios.. it lists the NVidia card as just NVidia GFX... although I have no reference to what it should be saying

Anyways... I can't find the adapter anywhere in the device manager and on my first install I got some really weird flickering from a black screen to a slightly less black screen ( curious if it's flipping between the onboard and discrete ) after running windows update

On this boot though.. after I installed the hd 3000 drivers, the NVidia drivers ran halfway before blue-screening me.. on reboot, I wasn't and still am not able to get it to pass the initial system check..

Hope this gives someone a clue.. and thanks in advance for any help

 

tried modded inf from laptopvideo2go.com
it'll fix your problem
i've tried 670m, 675m, hd 7970m, all work great in m15x and windows8

 

tried 2 of the drivers from laptopvideo2go and no luck =(

although i did find the entry for the 560m in the device manager.. its hidden and this error message is displayed in properties

Currently, this hardware device is not connected to the computer. (Code 45)

very strange, considering it knows the location: PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0 and after trying to uninstall it, the entry either never gets deleted or comes right back