**OFFICIAL** Dell XPS M1730 Owner's Lounge, *Part 4*

It shouldn't be doing that with the latest drivers. Try going for an older driver.

 

I think M1730 is too old to use the latest video drivers. I and others have had problems with the latest drivers.

The latest drive from Nvidia that I could use was 296.10, any driver after that I would have problems.

I have had good luck with letting Microsoft install their drivers for the card, they are newer then the ones from Nvidia that I could get to work.

The physx is no longer supported by Nvidia, so when you install the new driver it only sees your video card not the physx card. I have removed the card as it is no longer needed.

After installing the drivers from Microsoft and you enable sli and your computer shows a BSOD after you reboot then you may have a bad card.

 

Ok I will try an older driver like mention maybe i''ll try the 296.10 and go from there. So for now rather than physically removing the physx card can i just disable it from device manager and go ahead use only the nvidia control panel for settings right?

 

Try disabling the card for now. Some have said they had problems after disabling it though.

I had the physx card in for years with to problem. The last time I opened my computer to clean the video card fans I removed it to help keep the heat down.

 

Hello everyone, I have a problem:
Changed the video card NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX SLI is now a black screen ... Put another 8700M everything works ..

 

With the 8800m in try loading windows in safe mode, if it works maybe just drivers issue.

 

Where did you get the card from?

 

Card bought in Poland it is not tested, I was told there. Perhaps it is defective? Just a black screen and all.

 

I'm afraid that would be your problem. All these cards coming from Poland etc that are apparently reballed and refurbished are no good. When I bought my so called refurbished 9800gtx it kept freezing under load and when I checked the card there wasn't even any new heat paste used. It was old heat paste all cracked and not even sticking to the heat sink. In the end I got a brand new 8800gtx from China. I went through 3 refurbished cards and they was all duds.

 

Well I installed the 296.10 drivers mentioned above and so far runs good, I first disabled the ageia physx card in device manager since all the newer nvidia drivers bypasses it anyways. I wonder if all i had to do before was disable the ageia physx when trying to run and enable sli on the latest newest drivers?

I'll probably just leave the 296.10 until I run across a game that doesn't run well, right now im playing bullet storm and settings maxed out except shadows at low its what i usually do in all games for years and years where i put the shadows on low. Resolution is at the native which is 1920x1200 game runs smooth. I know this is a older game but i never played it before. I think the game supports sli but i didn't see sli option in the game settings should it have been in there? How do you a supported sli game is running both cards? thanks

Ohh one more question bullet storm is set to 1920x1200 but theres top and bottom black bars, is there a settings in nvidia control panel to fill a games screen?