windows 7 and nvidia

[Juandaman81]

is anyone able to help?

i'm trying windows 7 with my acer aspire 5630 laptop. the only problem i have is the nvidia geforce go 7300 doesnt seem to like the vista driver. its the only piece of hardware playing up.

any help would be greatly appreciated.




Nick
MCSA 2003

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[Lemon13]

MS provides a updated driver for win7 trough windows update. run it and it should get the driver.

 

[markdmac]

The NVIDIA site also has a driver available for direct download. It was recently updated so you might want to give that a try.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/windows_7.html

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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[linney]

Nvidia has been having problems with errors involving "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered". These problems have been apparent since the release of Vista, and are still occurring in Windows 7. The Internet is full of people seeking solutions for this annoying problem (including me).

If you update to the latest driver the problem may or may not correct itself. Uninstalling and re-installing the driver may give some short term relief, but if you have hardware that is prone to this error no solution seems possible in the near future, other than, perhaps, moving away from Nvidia Video Cards.

If it is the same application that is always producing the Display errors, running that application as an Administrator, and, or, in a Compatibility Mode of Vista, or XP, may help. Nobody running XP with these Video Cards seems to get this error.

 

[vacunita]

Is there a list if affected cards somewhere?

I've never seen these NVidia reated errors, I'm running Win 7 on a Geforce 6200, and have not experienced any ill effects.

Might be the version of the driver, in case anybody is interested, its Driver Version: 7.15.0011.7943 (English).

So far it's been stable.




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[markdmac]

I use an NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS and have had the same problem. Just updated to a new driver today so will see what happens.


I hope you find this post helpful.

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[BadBigBen]

The 7even nVidia drivers on the nVidia website do not support the GO video chips...

The latest offical driver (Vista) that supports the GO series,

GeForce Release 179 for Notebooks BETA (supports the GO 7300).

32bit:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_notebook_winvista_179.48_beta.html

122 MB
64bit:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_notebook_winvista64_179.48_beta.html

147 MB


the following links are for drivers that enthusiasts have changed the INF file and tweaked the drivers, they support all Nvidia 2 - 9 series Mobile GPU's.

32bit:

XG_Mobile_177.92_Vista_32t

http://files.filefront.com/XG+Mobile+17792+Vista+32texe/;12554194;/fileinfo.html

<50mb

or

XTreme-G_181.22m_Vista_32t.exe

http://files.filefront.com/XTreme+G+18122m+Vista+32texe/;13090112;/fileinfo.html

<50mb

64bit:

XG_177.92m_Vista64.exe

http://files.filefront.com/XG+17792m+Vista64exe/;13484938;/fileinfo.html

<50mb



Ben

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[Juandaman81]

no matter what driver i try to use, the os always fails to boot. sitting on the "starting windows logo" then i have to restore to last known good config.

i've tried running the nvidia installers under Vista mode and with admin rights, still no difference. and when i try to do a windows update, it tells me no updates available... infact its never updated since install.

confused.....ever so slightly!

Nick
MCSA 2003

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[markdmac]

Have you contacted Acer?

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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[linney]

If you disable the Nvidia Display Adapter in Device Manager will it then boot normally?

 

[BadBigBen]

have you installed the chipset drivers already?

as the BETA driver works fine on my laptop with a GO7600...

Ben

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[Juandaman81]

i managed to get this working using the xp driver for the video card, although when trying to run the "rate my computer" app it blue screens. but at least i get the right res now.

Nick
MCSA 2003

"If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?"

 

[Juandaman81]

ignore that last post... get a bsod anytime you try to use anything to do with graphics!

Nick
MCSA 2003

"If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?"

 

[BadBigBen]

I would try the following:

1. unpack the BETA driver I posted, to a folder...\
2. in the Device Manager, right click the nVidia Video card and update the driver, when it asks to do it automatically or manually, choose manual install, and point it towards the folder that you had created earlier...

PS: I had run the MS updates and sure enough it pointed out a new driver, which installed nicely...

PSS: Now the question, where did you get the 7even install ISO from, e.g. directly from MS or through a torrent/ed2k link? It could just well be that you may have a corrupted install or a graphic cards that is a mess...

Ben

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[Juandaman81]

i tried that but it still comes back with the update failed.


i downloaded this directly from our MSDN subscription.

Nick
MCSA 2003

"If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?"

 

[BadBigBen]

K, hmmm, it does sound more and more like a hardware problem...

Q: what OS was installed on that laptop and did it have any problems with the graphic card?

Q: can you post the VEN&DEV numbers, these are found under the Device Manager, double click the card, and go to DETAILS, there you will find them...

Ben

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[Juandaman81]

i have tried it also on another identical laptop, maybe the geforce go 7300 just doesnt like windows 7?

1 laptop had vista and the other xp previously with no graphics issues.




Nick
MCSA 2003

"If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?"

 

[BadBigBen]

With that, it can be as you think, that the GO 7300 is not liked by 7even, but I don't think that is the case, as a similar card (GO 7600) installed perfectly well on my test system...

and

And since all GeForce Go 7 Series GPUs are designed to support Microsoft® Windows Vista™ — Microsoft’s next-generation operating system (OS) — you can rest assured that you’ll be enjoying your notebook PC well into the future.

source:

http://www.nvidia.com/page/go_7300.html

the other possibility that I can think off at this time, would be an OS corruption, due to too fast burning of the install media... One should always burn at the slowest speed possible, that guarantees that the data is written correctly...

other than that I am at a loss here...

Ben

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[SimonDavies]

Or it could be down to the fact that you're trying to use a pre-release OS with beta drivers, anyone remember all the hassle we had with Nvidia and the first 6 months of Vista?

Simon

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[BadBigBen]

Simon, that should not be a problem, as I have installed that BETA OS and the BETA drivers on my laptop, with out any problems at all...


Ben

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