Nvidia GeForce Go 7900 GS

[Mojos]

Ive been running xp for ages now and seeing that windows 7 was going on sale I decided it was time to upgrade.

I have a Dell xps m1710 laptop with an nvidia geforce go 7900 gs graphics card. Before installing windows 7 I thought it best to check that it would run on my machine so I downloaded Microsofts upgrade advisor thingy. It told me all would be ok apart from my graphics card wouldn't be able to run aero. Ok windows will still run with areo turned off, but I wanted to be able to use all the funky bits of aero.

So I decided to search the web to see if I could find a solution or anyone who had tried 7 with this card but as it's so new there wasn't any info. I downloaded various new drivers but couldn't find one which was WDDM and so came to the conclusion this was my problem.

As I'm a student 7 only cost me £30 as an upgrade so I thought I'd go for it anyway and just hope a new driver became available later. I downloaded and installed 7 yesterday and went to select an aero theme expecting some horrible error message, but no. It fired up and works a treat! I didn't een install a driver, windows found it's own one (newer than any I had found on nvidias own website).

So windows 7 has it's first gold star from me (whilst windows upgrade advisor gets a lump of coal).

I just thought I'd post this to hopefully help out anyone who finds themself in the same sitution as I was prior to my upgrade as it looks like th go 7900 gs works just fine

 

[nemu111]

Thanks! Was wondering the same thing..

 

[Mojos]

And now that I've finally got round to having a look at the Windows Experience Index (WEI) it scores a very respectable 5.9 under the aero test

 

[Jotage]

I have the same video card, one day i turned off my laptop and went to sleep.
The other day when I turned on the laptop (Toshiba Satellite P105-S9337) i noticed it looked a little weird, soon it went black screen and reset itself and there were little squares on the screen aswell. So I boot on safe mode, made a backup and finally switched to Win7 Ultimate, though even running a clean formatted HDD install it did not solve the problem.

Ive tried many drivers on laptopvideo2go.com but whenever i found a driver that installed, and I could read Nvidia GeForce Go 7900GS under Graphic Adapter instead of Standard VGA Adapter in Device Manager and reboot to complete install it would also black screen when it got to the Loading Windows screen.

I´m running hopeless here dunno what else to do, thanks for your help

 

[thefabe]

@jotage welcome to seven forums: You can download the latest 179.48 for 32 bit driver from Nvidia here NVIDIA DRIVERS 179.48 BETA And try and install it. If it won't install correctly. You can modify the .inf file from here NVIDIA MobilityModder - HardwareHeaven.com Just follow the directions to the T. Take your time and you should have a working driver when your through. As you can see as you scroll down the page your card is listed. Also on the Nvidia page on release notes it states what notebooks are NOT supported by this release and yours is NOT listed as one that isn't supported so your good to go.. Fabe

 

[Jotage]

Thanks Fabe, another question.

In a last attempt to make stuff work I did a complete clean out of the box install of my winvista 32bit, did not work.

Probably will install win7 again today, not a clean install since i havent done anything to the configs since the winvista reinstall so, I suppose i should go back to the nvidia site and download the 64bit 179.48 beta driver for win7 after im done and then do whats on hardwareheaven?

Thanks for your support once again

 

[K3VL4R]

You can get the newest mobile video drivers here:

Download NVIDIA drivers | drivers for mobile cards and laptops | laptopvideo2go.com

Also what do you mean by you havent done anything to the configs in vista. If you have not spent much time installing stuff onto vista and customizing it, I would recommend a clean install of Windows 7. (Actually I recommend a clean install regardless of what has been done to the previous OS, but some people would rather upgrade so they can keep their apps/settings)

 

[Jotage]

By that I meant I left it just like it came when I bought it, well doesnt matter much, ended up doing a clean win7 64 install anyway.

Downloading the 179.48 beta win7 64bit driver now and will try the stuff on hardware heaven.

Already tried many drivers from laptopvideo2go.com, none worked. will keep you posted on how it goes with 179.48 and the hardware heaven stuff.

Thanks!

 

[Jotage]

@ TheFabe: Just restarted and got a blackscreen again, was able to boot it on F8 and Last Known Good Config. well, aparently the hardwareheaven thing did not work. guess i should just take it to the authorized people and have the Video Card replaced?

 

[thefabe]

@K3VL4R did you read his post #4? jotage if your under warranty why not let them sorte it out. It's not unheard of getting a faulty card or one that fails quickly. Fabe

 

[Jotage]

@thefabe: yeap this is probably what I'll do, i just hope the brazilian toshiba site fixes their SQL problem so the part of the site with authorized personnel addresses loads properly and i can get the address in my town and I'll take it there tomorrow morning to get it replaced.

Thanks a lot for your support and I'm sorry I couldn't get none of your sugestions to work! definatelly repping you guys!

 

[K3VL4R]

@K3VL4R did you read his post #4? jotage if your under warranty why not let them sorte it out. It's not unheard of getting a faulty card or one that fails quickly. Fabe

Your right I did somehow miss that post.

@Jotage You have tried many drivers and even on a fresh windows install. Like thefabe says if you've got warranty you might as well see if you can get the card replaced. So I hope your warranty goes well with your lappy.

 

[Jotage]

as i said above, ill be taking it to the toshiba people tomorrow and will keep you posted on what they tell me and how they fixed it, though a replace is probably what will solve this little headache we're fighting

 

[Jotage]

Hey guys.

Havent taken it into toshiba yet since i found out warranty is actually blown. well i think its a simple matter of replacing cards however i found this out:

The error seems to happen because of some kind of failure with nvlddmkm.sys. My question is:
Is there any way to fix this file, so maybe things will go back to normal with drivers and all of the horizontal squary things and no GPU Detection?

Many thanks once again!

 

[CarlTR6]

@K3VL4R did you read his post #4? jotage if your under warranty why not let them sorte it out. It's not unheard of getting a faulty card or one that fails quickly. Fabe

You are right about that. That happened to me with a brand new Nvidia card.

 

[CarlTR6]

So windows 7 has it's first gold star from me (whilst windows upgrade advisor gets a lump of coal).

I just thought I'd post this to hopefully help out anyone who finds themself in the same sitution as I was prior to my upgrade as it looks like th go 7900 gs works just fine

Apparently the Windows upgrade advisor crew has not yet tested the 7900 for compatibility yet. The test will report by default that something not yet tested is not compatable.

 

[Jotage]

So should i wait for their tests and hope for a miracolous fix?

 

[CarlTR6]

So should i wait for their tests and hope for a miracolous fix?

I would go to Nvidia's website and read what they say about the capabilities of the 7900 GS. They should state whether or not it meets Window 7's requirements. If it does, look for the latest driver on their website, download and install it if it is a later version than you currently have.

 

[Jotage]

It says GeForce Go 7900 is compatible on the Laptop Compatible GPU List

When I look for Drivers on their site choosing the following on the Screen
GeForce
Go 7 Series(Notebooks)
Windows 7 64
English

I get 179.48 BETA which is the one I had before it went on collapse when I was still on Vista 32. Then I upgraded to Win 7 x64 and since it tells me this is the current and most up to date driver well, things are still the same. I guess I'm screwed right? Though I've had reports of people that got the same GPU and then said it runs like a charm!

 

[CarlTR6]

I am not an expert at video cards by any means. And the beta driver did not work for me either. You can try the an older driver, the one listed just below the beta driver.

If that does not work you can try uninstalling the whole video card and then re-installing it.

If that doesn't work, you can try another video card - which is what I ended up doing. I still do not know why my video card did not work. The replacement works great.

I hope someone else will come along with more knowledge and a better ideas than I have. Do let me know the outcome.