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    8600gt; Which Drivers: Dell or Nvidia Forceware beta? (Dell 1720)

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by oreopimp, Jul 17, 2007.

  1. oreopimp

    oreopimp Newbie

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    Title explains it all, Im curious what the popular opinion is, keep with the dell drivers or go nvidia betas?
     
    oreopimp, Jul 17, 2007
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    dbam987 wicked-poster

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    The Dell drivers are a lot less likely to get regular updates, NVidia will continually update theirs.
     
    dbam987, Jul 17, 2007
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    PhoenixFx Notebook Virtuoso

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    Yes install nVidia moded drivers. BTW they are not all Beta, and DELL drivers are also based on nVidia drivers (therefore not altogether a different thing).
     
    PhoenixFx, Jul 17, 2007
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  4. oreopimp

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    I tried to install the forceware 163.11 drivers by just double clicking the icon, got the following "could not locate compatable drivers with your hardware" error (this is after I uninstalled dells vid drivers):

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    When I went the manual route, going through device manager and selecting the .inf file from the extracted files from the 163.11 it read my card as an 8300GS when its really an 8600.

    ANyone know what the deal is on how to get these things appropriatly installed.?
     
    oreopimp, Jul 17, 2007
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  5. oreopimp

    oreopimp Newbie

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    nm, got it figured out.

    I uninstalled my dell drivers and for some reason when my card was listed as a VGA it thought it was an 8300...reinstalled Dell drivers, went to install Nvidia forceware and all was good. weird.
     
    oreopimp, Jul 17, 2007
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    phobos512 Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    phobos512, Jul 17, 2007
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