Hello everyone,
Everyone here has been so helpful on other issues I have had I am hoping for the same now. A friend has brought me a lap top that he requested I try and fix. Here are the specifications.
It is from early 2007 its a Dell XPS M1710 Laptop. I never would have invested money in this but its not mine.
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
Intel Core 2 CPU t7200 2 GHz
2 GB Ram
Geforce Go 7950 GTX GPU
148 GB Hard drive.
So here is what has happened thus far. My friend received this Laptop from some one else. They moved their Vista 32 bit Professional off of the Laptop and left him with a non-usable operating system. I bought him Windows 7 home Premium 64 bit and installed that. (He has room to upgrade Ram) It was a struggle to get that on their with all of Windows 7 updates running without it crashing. But I got that done. This laptop is up and running flawlessly as of right now with no further issues EXCEPT that it refuses to install the GPU.
Now I went to Dells website and downloaded the drivers for the GPU but they are 32 bit only they won't install.. I download the drivers from windows update and the PC blue screens referencing nvlddmkm.sys.
I then boot into safe mode and and uninstall the drivers and it boots back into windows no issue. I try older drivers from Nvidia and they do the same. I went and found a website called laptopvideo2go.com which has modified drivers and I have gone in and installed those plus the modified INF file but it now BSODs and references a
*** Hardware Malfunction
Call your hardware vendor for support
NMI: Parity Check / Memory Parity Error
***The System Has Halted***
I have tried drivers for WIndows 7 64 bit, Windows Vista 64 Bit, and Windows 8 64 bit from that website. I've asked for help there but no one has replied.
I tried to speak to dell and they won't help you at all since the laptop is out of warranty.
I spoke to Nividia and they said Dell would have to have something and I told them they didn't and they said to flash the bios and that should help. I flashed the bios from Dell's website and that had no effect I can detect.
I ran a memtest on the ram and it came back fine. I ran a chkdsk and that came back fine as well.
I found out on Nvidia's website that this card is no longer supported and it isn't supported on 64 bit machines.
I'm out of ideas. Is this a dead graphics card or is it simply not supported anymore? Laptopvideo2go boasts drivers that are supposed to enable support for a variety of cards that have lost support. i don't know if I am doing something wrong or not. But I don't know what else to do, does anyone have any ideas or need any more information?
Everyone here has been so helpful on other issues I have had I am hoping for the same now. A friend has brought me a lap top that he requested I try and fix. Here are the specifications.
It is from early 2007 its a Dell XPS M1710 Laptop. I never would have invested money in this but its not mine.
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
Intel Core 2 CPU t7200 2 GHz
2 GB Ram
Geforce Go 7950 GTX GPU
148 GB Hard drive.
So here is what has happened thus far. My friend received this Laptop from some one else. They moved their Vista 32 bit Professional off of the Laptop and left him with a non-usable operating system. I bought him Windows 7 home Premium 64 bit and installed that. (He has room to upgrade Ram) It was a struggle to get that on their with all of Windows 7 updates running without it crashing. But I got that done. This laptop is up and running flawlessly as of right now with no further issues EXCEPT that it refuses to install the GPU.
Now I went to Dells website and downloaded the drivers for the GPU but they are 32 bit only they won't install.. I download the drivers from windows update and the PC blue screens referencing nvlddmkm.sys.
I then boot into safe mode and and uninstall the drivers and it boots back into windows no issue. I try older drivers from Nvidia and they do the same. I went and found a website called laptopvideo2go.com which has modified drivers and I have gone in and installed those plus the modified INF file but it now BSODs and references a
*** Hardware Malfunction
Call your hardware vendor for support
NMI: Parity Check / Memory Parity Error
***The System Has Halted***
I have tried drivers for WIndows 7 64 bit, Windows Vista 64 Bit, and Windows 8 64 bit from that website. I've asked for help there but no one has replied.
I tried to speak to dell and they won't help you at all since the laptop is out of warranty.
I spoke to Nividia and they said Dell would have to have something and I told them they didn't and they said to flash the bios and that should help. I flashed the bios from Dell's website and that had no effect I can detect.
I ran a memtest on the ram and it came back fine. I ran a chkdsk and that came back fine as well.
I found out on Nvidia's website that this card is no longer supported and it isn't supported on 64 bit machines.
I'm out of ideas. Is this a dead graphics card or is it simply not supported anymore? Laptopvideo2go boasts drivers that are supposed to enable support for a variety of cards that have lost support. i don't know if I am doing something wrong or not. But I don't know what else to do, does anyone have any ideas or need any more information?
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