HP dv3t Win 7 x64 nVidia Drivers (Geforce G 105M)

[DanishDevil]

I wiped my new laptop clean, and I've been trying to find a driver that works for this.

I'm running Windows 7 RC1 x64, and I have tried tons of drivers for Vista x64, and they error out saying it's the wrong OS. I've tried running them in compatibility mode, too.

Also, I have tried the nvidia drivers straight from nvidia themselves for W7x64, and they only install the HD Audio driver.

Is there any hope!?!?

 

[Wile E]

Did you try on http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/ ?

 

[DanishDevil]

Yes I did, and like the one from HP for Vista x64, it only wanted to install the HD Audio driver, and not the display driver

 

[Wile E]

Yes I did, and like the one from HP for Vista x64, it only wanted to install the HD Audio driver, and not the display driver

Is the 105M in the .inf?

 

[DanishDevil]

There are almost 50 different 105M's in the INF. I tried just the driver installation, and it gave me that error, and whenever I try to use the INF's with a manual driver update through Device Manager, it gives me a wrong OS error

Maybe I'm getting mixed up. I have like 6 different drivers (different releases, 32 and 64 bit, vista and 7). I'm gonna delete them all and try the one directly from LaptopVideo2GO later (can't for about 2hrs, I'm at work).

I think the problem is going to be trying each one of the 105M INF's until one works

 

[DanishDevil]

I just reinstalled Vista. There are no quick fixes at the moment. However, I just had an idea. It may or may not work, but I'd like your input.

I could flash my GeForce G 105M to a vanilla nVidia G 105M instead of an HP subvendor, and then I should be able to use nVidia drivers instead.

If I don't do that, then I'll have to wait until HP releases Windows 7 x64 drivers.

 

[FemTech]

I would imagine you are gonna have trouble finding drivers for Windows 7! Best of luck.

I always stay away from new OS's.

 

[DanishDevil]

I've been using Windows 7 RC1 since the day after it came out on 4 different machines, and this is the first time I have run into a problem, and it's not their fault, it's HP's fault for forcing the use of their own modified display drivers.

 

[Wile E]

I just reinstalled Vista. There are no quick fixes at the moment. However, I just had an idea. It may or may not work, but I'd like your input.

I could flash my GeForce G 105M to a vanilla nVidia G 105M instead of an HP subvendor, and then I should be able to use nVidia drivers instead.

If I don't do that, then I'll have to wait until HP releases Windows 7 x64 drivers.

That sounds like a decent idea. Wouldn't really have to do anything but modify the vendor sting, afaik.

 

[DanishDevil]

No good. "BIOS reading is not supported on this device." I might post over in the GPU-Z section to try to find some other way to get a hold of the BIOS off this card.

 

[thrillhov]

just ran into the same problem on my new DV3t with GeForce G 105m, its an easy fix
try to install the drivers you have... it fails... thats ok.
during the failed install, it left the extracted files in a folder.
go to device manager, update the driver, and point it to the folder that installer created.

hope that helps.

 

[DanishDevil]

I'll give that a shot once I swap HDD's out. Thanks.

 

[thrillhov]

hey, for a fellow BMW driver with the same PC as me, how could i not?

 

[Nitroin]

Have you already tried this? Are especially for Win7 and for Notebook.

 

[DanishDevil]

Yes I have.

hey, for a fellow BMW driver with the same PC as me, how could i not?

Haha sweet. What do you drive? I've got a 1998 540i at the moment. Came from a 1996 318iC vert. Mom's got a 2007 335i

 

[thrillhov]

actually sitting in mine right now typing on my dv3t on win 7 rc1 64-bit that i installed today. I have a 2005 325xi

 

[DanishDevil]

I broke apart my WD Passport 320GB because those HDD's they put into the HP's (5400RPM ones) are PAINFULLY slow and actually rumored to only spin at 4200RPM. I'm gonna swap em out and I'll try Windows 7 first with your fix.

Nice ride!

 

[kurosagi01]

danish you got laptop so join my club nice laptop specs,i hope you do get your drivers fixed though

 

[DanishDevil]

OK I realized that I had already tried doing that thrillhov. This is the error I get:

If I try to "Pick from a list of device drivers" and point to that folder, I get 27 different "NVIDIA GeForce G 105M" options. I have tried the first 5, and I get this error:

 

[DanishDevil]

NVIDIA lists these drivers as compatible with the 105M:

GeForce Release 186 for Notebooks WHQL NVIDIA Recommended 186.03 June 9, 2009

GeForce Release 185 for Notebooks WHQL 185.85 May 7, 2009

GeForce Release 185 for Notebooks 185.81 April 30, 2009

I'm trying the 185.81's now.

 

[thrillhov]

i actually havent had the time to try using the nvidia drivers, i just downloaded the 105m drivers for Vista 64-bit from HP's website and used those.
ive been meaning to try Nvidias drivers, but maybe i wont be able to.

try out the HPs..
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...&dlc=en&cc=us&product=3919621&os=2100&lang=en

 

[DanishDevil]

I did! Those are the ones above. See post 19.

 

[DanishDevil]

Tried some fixes PM'ed to me by sqld:

I just tried your fix, and ran into some very different results.

First of all, this was the code that I added:

[NVIDIA_Devices.NTamd64.6.0]
%NVIDIA_DEV.0427.01% = Section003, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&SUBSYS_386217AA
%NVIDIA_DEV.0427.03% = Section003, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&SUBSYS_400C17AA
%NVIDIA_DEV.0428.01% = Section003, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0428&SUBSYS_386917AA
%NVIDIA_DEV.0651.01% = Section017, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0651&SUBSYS_387717AA
%NVIDIA_DEV.0652.01% = Section017, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0652&SUBSYS_388217AA
%NVIDIA_DEV.06E9.02% = Section021, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_06E9&SUBSYS_387617AA
%NVIDIA_DEV.06E9.03% = Section021, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_06E9&SUBSYS_3A2417AA
%NVIDIA_DEV.06EB.01% = Section017, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_06EB&SUBSYS_3A2517AA
%NVIDIA_DEV.06EC.01% = Section004, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_06EC&SUBSYS_306D103

[NVIDIA_Devices.NTamd64.6.1]
%NVIDIA_DEV.0427.01% = Section004, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&SUBSYS_386217AA
%NVIDIA_DEV.0427.03% = Section004, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0427&SUBSYS_400C17AA
%NVIDIA_DEV.0428.01% = Section004, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0428&SUBSYS_386917AA
%NVIDIA_DEV.0651.01% = Section018, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0651&SUBSYS_387717AA
%NVIDIA_DEV.0652.01% = Section018, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0652&SUBSYS_388217AA
%NVIDIA_DEV.06E9.02% = Section022, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_06E9&SUBSYS_387617AA
%NVIDIA_DEV.06E9.03% = Section022, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_06E9&SUBSYS_3A2417AA
%NVIDIA_DEV.06EB.01% = Section018, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_06EB&SUBSYS_3A2517AA
%NVIDIA_DEV.06EC.01% = Section004, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_06EC&SUBSYS_306D103

and...

[Strings]
DiskID1 = "NVIDIA Windows Vista / Windows 7 (64 bit) Driver Library Installation Disk 1"
NVIDIA = "NVIDIA"
NVIDIA_DEV.0427.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS"
NVIDIA_DEV.0427.03 = "NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS "
NVIDIA_DEV.0428.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G"
NVIDIA_DEV.0651.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce G 110M"
NVIDIA_DEV.0652.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M"
NVIDIA_DEV.06E9.02 = "NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS"
NVIDIA_DEV.06E9.03 = "NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS "
NVIDIA_DEV.06EB.01 = "NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M"
NVIDIA_DEV.06EC.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce G 105M HP"
NVUninstall.desc = "NVIDIA Display Driver"
REG_BINARY = 0x00000001
REG_DWORD = 0x00010001
REG_EXPAND_SZ = 0x00020000
REG_MULTI_SZ = 0x00010000
REG_SZ = 0x00000000
REG_SZ_APPEND = 0x00010008

I named it "NVIDIA Geforce G 105M HP" because when I pointed device manager to the driver, it did not show 1 device, it showed just as many as it did before.

And to top it all off, Windows encountered a problem: The driver selected for this device does not support this version of Windows.

I am currently using the RTM, and I used the latest NVIDIA drivers for the Geforce G 100M notebooks on Windows 7 64 from NVIDIA's web site. It's still not working for me

The one thing I did notice was that all of the other entries for the Devices entry follow 0X0000AA, while mine was 000X000 (0 representing a number, and X representing a letter). Other than that, I have no idea what's going wrong