Need drivers for nVidia GeForce 4 420 Go 32M

[Aquila76]

The shipping drivers I found from HP's website are from 2002 (47 series). Anybody know the latest drivers that support the GeForce 420 Go series?
In some of my Google searching it looks like I might be able to hack the 91 series INF to accomodate the vid card; anyone succesfully do this or have a working INF?

 

[OCNewbie]

Have you tried installing these? Link

With no luck?

 

[OCNewbie]

Sounds frustrating, here, I found this on wikipedia, maybe it can be of some help.

GeForce4 Go

This family is a derivative of the GeForce4 MX family, produced for the laptop market. The GeForce4 Go family, performance wise, can be considered comparable to the MX line. However, support wise, some users have become rather irritated at an uncharacteristic lack of driver support from NVIDIA. Instead of supporting this family of chips, NVIDIA redirects users to the manufacturer's webpage. At least in the case of Sony's support for the PCG-NVR23 Vaio laptop, the drivers provided are exceedingly out of date.

One possible solution to the lack of driver support for the Go family is the third party Omega Drivers. However, it is not recommended that one install these drivers unless one is willing to accept the risks. Using third party drivers can, among other things, invalidate warranties. The Omega Drivers are supported by neither laptop manufacturers, laptop ODMs, nor by NVIDIA. NVIDIA has also recently attempted legal action against Omega Drivers.

NVIDIA?s own solution to the problem is to try drivers from www.laptopvideo2go.com. This website hosts desktop display drivers which have been modified to install on a notebook. The drivers found on this website do not contain any laptop specific modifications and thus may or may not be better than drivers provided by your laptop's manufacturer.

 

[Aquila76]

Originally posted by: OCNewbie
Have you tried installing these? Link

With no luck?

It says 'No valid hardware detected' or something similar.

I'll check out that laptopviceo2go site, thanks!

 

[fbrdphreak]

First of all, newer drivers will not help unless you are having a specific problem. That card will only run very very old games and that is it. It is essentially a GeForce2 MX.

Second of all, you can try using drivers modded for mobile use. I think there are some mobile versions of the VXG Extreme's or whatever they're called. But (A) these may not support your Go 420 properly and (B) you may see compatibility issues.

Third, if your laptop has a Go 420 in it, I highly doubt it was made in 2005.

EDIT You cannot use regularly available drivers as they are restricted from installing on notebooks; that is one thing modded drivers do, remove that restriction.

 

[daveybrat]

Try these Omega drivers 66.93's. They are the best for Nvidia gpu based laptops. They work on any laptop or desktop nvidia card. I use them all the time on customer's laptops.

Omega 66.93 Nvidia Forceware drivers

Good luck! :thumbsup:

 

[Aquila76]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
First of all, newer drivers will not help unless you are having a specific problem. That card will only run very very old games and that is it. It is essentially a GeForce2 MX.
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If your laptop has a Go 420 in it, I highly doubt it was made in 2005.

It's not so much a problem, but a feature. My Dad is trying to output the display to a Samsung HDTV (720p widescreen) and needs to use the overscan / underscan feature of the newer drivers to display it properly. The shipping / HP website drivers simply do not do this.

The laptop is about a year old, it's an HP Pavillion w/an Athlon mobile-XP chip my Dad bought at Circuit City. He didn't need the latest/greatest video as he's only using it for Office / Internet and occasionally to play movies. The 420 Go was the cheapest video available as an option.

 

[Aquila76]

Originally posted by: daveybrat
Try these Omega drivers 66.93's. They are the best for Nvidia gpu based laptops. They work on any laptop or desktop nvidia card. I use them all the time on customer's laptops.

Omega 66.93 Nvidia Forceware drivers

Good luck! :thumbsup:

Cool, I'll try this out tonight. I tried the modded 90, 80, and some 70 series from laptopvideo2go.com, but they really mangled the display.