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vista.ultimate.64 Posts 211 Registration date Sunday October 3, 2010 Status Member Last seen October 18, 2013 - Oct 26, 2011 at 11:41 AM
vista.ultimate.64 Posts 211 Registration date Sunday October 3, 2010 Status Member Last seen October 18, 2013 - Nov 1, 2011 at 02:36 PM
Hello,

Hi. I have an Alienware M17x R2 (2009 model). I got it with 2 nVidia GeForce GTX 280M graphics cards in Hybrid SLi. I also got a single nVidia GeForce 9400m G as a low power mode.

I would like to run a regular update to my 280m's, so i went to nVidia.com and got the correct driver download, but when i run it, it says it's not supported. I tried the auto scan and it leads me elsewhere. What can i do?

Thanks

EDIT:

I'm on windows vista 64 bit.

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Anonymous User
Oct 26, 2011 at 09:32 PM
Is this the one you downloaded?

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/windows/285_62/notebook-win7-winvista-285-62-whql-driver/

Check it
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vista.ultimate.64 Posts 211 Registration date Sunday October 3, 2010 Status Member Last seen October 18, 2013 38
Oct 27, 2011 at 01:44 PM
Hi, sorry i forgot to mention, i'm on Vista 64 bit. This is the link.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/drivers/windows/285_62/notebook-win7-winvista-64bit-285-62-whql-driver-uk/
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vista.ultimate.64 Posts 211 Registration date Sunday October 3, 2010 Status Member Last seen October 18, 2013 38
Nov 1, 2011 at 02:36 PM
Hi again.

With my research, i found that the latest driver is for Battlefield 3 added support. My copy stops responding every time i execute it, so does Rage which is on steam.

I found this link:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/discover/129284/285-62-installer-failing-for-gtx-260m-sli-install-failure/

It says why it doesn't work, the way round was too complicated, so i tried an older version of the card which would be fine for me, and half way through installation, it said something like an exception error and press OK to terminate. I pressed it about 50 times, the same message popped up with different and the same exe's. Any ideas?
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