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March 22nd, 2005 22:00

Why is the hardware not compatible?

I have had 3 nvidia cards in other computers and they all worked perfectly with the standard nvidia drivers, but my Inspiron 8500 w/ GeForce4 4200 Go does not work with the standard nvidia drivers... 61.77 installed but didn't work, but 66.93 and 71.84 say no compatible hardware was found.

It pretty much blows that I have to wait several months to get "current" drivers (current dell one is at least 3 months old). Also that's not cool to email the user's forum password in plaintext... you should at least note that with a "*" footnote next to the password registration field.
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    Posted March 22nd, 2005 23:00

    What is interesting is that the stock nvidia linux driver works fine. I wonder what it is about Dell, Nvidia, and Windows that is incompatible. Maybe it's standard for laptops, but in any case it still is pretty lame IMO (also lame that the word for what you do on a drinking straw is banned).
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    Posted March 22nd, 2005 23:00

    most notebook cards will not accept the main driver packs from nvidia or ati -- you will need to find a utility to mod the drivers to install with mobile cards if you don't want to use the dell ones
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    Posted March 25th, 2005 03:00

    Try this website.  It has Drivers and moded INF files.

    http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/