Acer MXM Models and Cards

[Meaker]

460M booted, had working drivers and ran 3d applications in my 7738G but would never enter 3d clocks. It would only ever stay at low power clocks.

[goldenfish]

@meaker ! buddy help !
i have ordered gts 250m it arrived today and i put it into my laptop , the first expression i got from it is black screen after windows flash screen goes.
what is wrong, driver? bios? or card itself?

[Meaker]

It's tricky, if you are in AHCI mode you need to switch to dedicated only in the bios.

[goldenfish]

It's tricky, if you are in AHCI mode you need to switch to dedicated only in the bios.

i have already done it , now i have switched to integrated and it goes fine to windows but not in dedicated it will not go to windows and will show black screen before welcome screen .
do i have to wait longer till it install generic driver availabe in windows or through update?

edite: do i have to download and extarct nvadia driver before plug it on?

[goldenfish]

@maeker , did you have the display at first boot without driver installed? in my case i dont get to windows after the windows 7 initial flash screen and it never show shows welcome screen i wait for about couple of minutes even more than that but negative no response from the card , i am wondering if i have bought the wrong card since there was a custome thin paper sticker stating model and there is also written ASUS , have a look at it here
NVIDIA GTS 250M 1GB GDDR3 MXM 3.0 A Laptop Graphics Card 1024MB DDR3 N10E-GE-A2 | eBay

[Meaker]

I had to really jiggle it around to finally get the drivers to install, have you tried starting in safe mode?

[goldenfish]

it doesnt goto windows in safe mode either , btw , i have just ressembled it back and took another look to make sure the description , and the first all was normal as the device id +model + whatever but at the end there stated "for lenovo lead free" similer is written
i have tried to boot it through safe mode but same thing black screen after drivers are loaded

[goldenfish]

Is my bios is the latest ? V2.09 can somebody confirm it for me please?

[goldenfish]

I had to really jiggle it around to finally get the drivers to install, have you tried starting in safe mode?

can you please tell me how to install its driver , it went to windows for the first time after i changed the sittings to autoinstall driver (on integreted enabled) in the windows automatic driver updater , and then when it starts to install in notification bar but after few seconds it gone black again .

[Meaker]

I think I used the latest OEM laptop video 2 go drivers. You have to get it booting in dedicated mode.