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Nvidia 9800M problems OR never buy a used laptop
PwnanObrien
He's right, life sucks.Registered User regular
He's right, life sucks.Registered User regular
Recently I bought a friend's old laptop which came with the following specs:
Dell XPS M1730
MS Windows 7 64-bit SP1
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T7700 @ 2.40GHz, 4.0GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT
Since setting it up I've had nothing but trouble with the drivers. I've managed to get it to stop crashing on flash videos on sites like Youtube and Giant Bomb. It also doesn't seem to have any problems with photo editing or 3D modeling software, but games cause it to crash pretty consistantly. Currently I'm running the 197.16 drivers though I've tried lots of driver sets up to the very latest. Still it constantly gets the dreaded "display driver stopped responding" error.
The device manager is displaying two errors:
PCI Device:
Location: PCI bus 14, device o, function 0
Device status: The drivers for this device are not installed (Code 28)
NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT:
Location: PCI bus 4, device 0, function 0
Device status: Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43)
I've even gone as far as opening the thing up and cleaning all the way to the bottom with compressed air, but still nothing changes.
Any help would be appreciated.
Dell XPS M1730
MS Windows 7 64-bit SP1
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T7700 @ 2.40GHz, 4.0GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT
Since setting it up I've had nothing but trouble with the drivers. I've managed to get it to stop crashing on flash videos on sites like Youtube and Giant Bomb. It also doesn't seem to have any problems with photo editing or 3D modeling software, but games cause it to crash pretty consistantly. Currently I'm running the 197.16 drivers though I've tried lots of driver sets up to the very latest. Still it constantly gets the dreaded "display driver stopped responding" error.
The device manager is displaying two errors:
PCI Device:
Location: PCI bus 14, device o, function 0
Device status: The drivers for this device are not installed (Code 28)
NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT:
Location: PCI bus 4, device 0, function 0
Device status: Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43)
I've even gone as far as opening the thing up and cleaning all the way to the bottom with compressed air, but still nothing changes.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Also I discovered that the Nvidia 9800M GT on PCI bus 3 is working fine. I have no idea why only one of the two would work...