Updating Dell Laptop Video Drivers

[dxkj]

For some reason any drivers I download from Nvidia say that I do not have an nvidia card, and im forced to use drivers that arent as up to date, and wont let me play some games (Everquest is one example, killing time with a 21 day trial)

 

[ValuedCustomer]

can you provide more info? just for starters, what OS? which GPU? etc..

 

[dxkj]

Did about 4 hours of more research on it.

Nvidia doesnt put out drivers directly for mobile GPU's often.. but apparently they are for the 7800

I have WXP and 6800 Go

lots of annoyances, will post some more info if i figure ito ut

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: dxkj
Did about 4 hours of more research on it.

Nvidia doesnt put out drivers directly for mobile GPU's often.. but apparently they are for the 7800

I have WXP and 6800 Go

lots of annoyances, will post some more info if i figure ito ut

Omega Drivers has driver updates for "generic" ATI / nVidia cards.

 

[MadScientist]

Go here. Link

 

[amdnVuser]

Most of Dell's machines' graphics cards (desktop and notebook) use proprietary drivers written by Dell. I had an Optiplex GX270 at work at one point with a Geforce 4 MX, and it wouldn't accept nVIDIA Forceware drivers. Sometimes I can get the drivers updated via Windows update, but that hasn't seemed to work lately either. BTW, if you read closely, Dell is not one of the supported manufacturer's for nVIDIA's Geforce Go 7800 GTX drivers. This has also been my experience with ATI Dell graphics cards as well.

 

[dclive]

I've never seen a problem with any vendor's desktop graphics cards (including Dells around here), but for laptops, yes, there have been issues. Omega Drivers work on laptops just fine, and allow users to put the latest GPU drivers on their laptops. (My laptop vendor, Gateway, hasn't had an ATI Radeon 9600 graphics card driver update in a year or so now.)

 

[Pens1566]

Originally posted by: MadScientist
Go here. Link

 

[Abhi]

Did you try Dell's support site...?

What is the laptop model no?

 

[amdnVuser]

Originally posted by: dclive
I've never seen a problem with any vendor's desktop graphics cards (including Dells around here), but for laptops, yes, there have been issues. Omega Drivers work on laptops just fine, and allow users to put the latest GPU drivers on their laptops. (My laptop vendor, Gateway, hasn't had an ATI Radeon 9600 graphics card driver update in a year or so now.)

I never experience this with older Dell desktop graphics, just newer ones (and I'm talking business line models like Optiplex, Precision, etc.). I haven't dealt with a Dimension in a while, so I can't really comment on those (although last time I tried installing Forceware or Catalyst drivers on a Dimension, I had no problem).

I've never heard of that laptopvideo2go site. Looks like some good stuff!