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    Drivers for T61p's NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by arlab, Oct 18, 2008.

  1. arlab

    arlab Notebook Evangelist

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    Greetings. I used to have the default Windows Update NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M for Vista x64.

    Unfortunately, recently, I had the sad idea of installing Lenovo's drivers (via System Update), since they were more recent.

    That made me lose A LOT of resolutions, including the one I'm needing now: 1280 x 800px.

    Where can I download (again) the Windows Update driver? Also, is it recommended to uninstall the previous driver before installing a new one, or that isn't needed?

    Finally, anyone knows other better, STABLE, drivers for T61p (that offer many resolutions, including 1280x800px and 1920 x 1200px)?
     
    arlab, Oct 18, 2008
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  2. BrendaEM

    BrendaEM Notebook Consultant

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    This is probably be where you want to snoop around at:
    http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/

    On their forums, they rate driver versions.

    I'm using their gforce modded .inf on XP, T61P.
     
    BrendaEM, Oct 18, 2008
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  3. arlab

    arlab Notebook Evangelist

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    Nice website. Is it importnant that the " Driver Released by" field is from Lenovo? Also, a driver being MS WHQL is important?
     
    arlab, Oct 18, 2008
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  4. The Fire Snake

    The Fire Snake Notebook Virtuoso

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    I have read that it isn't a good idea to use the driver your get from MS in regards to the 570. It is a better idea to use the one Lenovo provides of the one from Nvidia. Many gamers go to the laptopvideo2go site to get drivers to tweak their cards to play games better.
     
    The Fire Snake, Oct 18, 2008
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  5. arlab

    arlab Notebook Evangelist

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    I need the 1280x800px resolution. Lenovo's driver doesn't offer it.
    But I played UT3 and PES 2008 fine with MS's card...
     
    arlab, Oct 19, 2008
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  6. arlab

    arlab Notebook Evangelist

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    So, in the Device Mangaer there is an option to "Roll-back" to the previous driver. Nice. I did that and the 1280x800px resolution returned. :)
    However, I was curious to see if Microsoft had launched a new driver, so I searched for it. The driver was the same as Lenovo's, but I still installed to see if the resolution disappeared again... and it did. :(

    Oh well... I guess it wasn't Lenovo's fault...
     
    arlab, Oct 19, 2008
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  7. bsodder

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    The MS driver is identical to the same released version number on the Nvidia website. The latest driver there for V64 is 178.26. Very strange that a res would disappear from the driver. There must have been a documented problem with some OS/ software setups, but it may not affect everyone.
     
    bsodder, Oct 19, 2008
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  8. arlab

    arlab Notebook Evangelist

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    I assume that the display drivers determine the resolutions you may use. The 178.26 driver simply dropped that one...
     
    arlab, Oct 19, 2008
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