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Vista x64 (bootcamp) on late MBP - crashing / downloading errors
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I'll try the directx and chipset, though I don't recall seeing the chipset drivers anywhere around. The nvidia site also says that they won't give me the latest driver and that I have to get it from apple (not exactly, but that's what it's getting at).
For the chipset drivers, I'd just download Apple's newest Bootcamp drivers and install those-hopefully those will work.
You'll need to force install the video drivers off Nvidia's site through the Device Manager. I'd just grab the newest reference drivers, download and extract them, then tell Device Manager to use those (even though it'll claim there aren't drivers there for it).
I'd update the chipset drivers first though.
No go on any of those fronts.
I think I might have identified why that 180.84 driver hasn't worked, it's because it won't install. Whether using the setup.exe it gives or going through device manager, it errors out and says on files were copied / installation was aborted due to missing files.
I think I might have identified why that 180.84 driver hasn't worked, it's because it won't install. Whether using the setup.exe it gives or going through device manager, it errors out and says on files were copied / installation was aborted due to missing files.
If I'm remembering right, you should be able to run the file you downloaded-it should create a directory under like C:\Nvidia\<driver version> or something like that.
It'll then launch setup, which will fail, saying there's no supported hardware or something like that.
Instead, in device manager you can just tell it you want to update the video driver, and point the video driver to the inf file in the directory it created. It'll give a warning that there's no supported hardware or something like that, and you can just pick something similar to what the hardware actually is-an 8600GT maybe, or something along those lines (I don't know that that actually matters even).
When I did it, it took a few minutes copying files, then switched to a generic display driver an asked to reboot. It then came back up just fine, using the new drivers.
This was a year ago the last time I did this, but it seemed to work just fine and I'd assume it still does. I'm personally just more comfortable doing it that way versus using an unknown modded inf file (which all it's doing is telling the system that drivers do support the hardware...which doesn't matter since you can tell the system to use them anyway).
But you'd want to update the chipset drivers and DX 9 first, as the video drivers rely on the chipset drivers to function correctly.
It'll then launch setup, which will fail, saying there's no supported hardware or something like that.
Instead, in device manager you can just tell it you want to update the video driver, and point the video driver to the inf file in the directory it created. It'll give a warning that there's no supported hardware or something like that, and you can just pick something similar to what the hardware actually is-an 8600GT maybe, or something along those lines (I don't know that that actually matters even).
When I did it, it took a few minutes copying files, then switched to a generic display driver an asked to reboot. It then came back up just fine, using the new drivers.
This was a year ago the last time I did this, but it seemed to work just fine and I'd assume it still does. I'm personally just more comfortable doing it that way versus using an unknown modded inf file (which all it's doing is telling the system that drivers do support the hardware...which doesn't matter since you can tell the system to use them anyway).
But you'd want to update the chipset drivers and DX 9 first, as the video drivers rely on the chipset drivers to function correctly.
A little more info:
Trying to install new nvidia drivers of any sort without the moddified inf file results in an error message saying there are no drivers available for any hardware on the machine.
Trying with the modified inf file starts the installation, says it completes, then says a error occurred and nothing was installed, which then pops up a windows help window saying that windows does not support this version of Age of Empires 2.0c (as if I was trying to play that).
newest boot camp files lead me to BSOD as well.
Trying to install new nvidia drivers of any sort without the moddified inf file results in an error message saying there are no drivers available for any hardware on the machine.
Trying with the modified inf file starts the installation, says it completes, then says a error occurred and nothing was installed, which then pops up a windows help window saying that windows does not support this version of Age of Empires 2.0c (as if I was trying to play that).
newest boot camp files lead me to BSOD as well.
Bump!
So 5 months on and I have been running Vista WITHOUT any nvidia display drivers. Has there been any fix for this since, or any more info regarding the problem? I've done some browsing and haven't seen anything :/
With nvidia display drivers installed - constant crashing every couple of hours.
Without the display drivers - no crashing whatsoever, but obv can't game.
The downloading errors turned out to be a problem with my wireless 3G
So 5 months on and I have been running Vista WITHOUT any nvidia display drivers. Has there been any fix for this since, or any more info regarding the problem? I've done some browsing and haven't seen anything :/
With nvidia display drivers installed - constant crashing every couple of hours.
Without the display drivers - no crashing whatsoever, but obv can't game.
The downloading errors turned out to be a problem with my wireless 3G