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Thread ID: 81192	2007-07-19 21:13:00	Vista, Dell Inspiron and Nvidia Drivers	GuyM (12569)	Press F1

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570406	2007-07-19 21:13:00	This week I upgraded my Dell Inspiron 8500 from Windows XP to Vista Business. :waughh: I had run the Vista advisor, and other than a caution about Aero, I was expecting a nice clean upgrade. Well, be warned. Vista installed and the then told me that the wifi card was now unsupported (slight bugger) and that the Nvidia GE Force 4200 was not supported (serious bugger). This now means my laptop is reduced to VGA status, despite having AGP and 64Mb of RAM. My point - why couldn't the advisor point this detail out - because I would not have upgraded! A scan of the Vista site, the nvidia site and the dell site make my weekend look like a sad one - no vista driver for the GEFORCE 4200. Any sources or workaround for the Vista Graphics driver question ?	GuyM (12569)
570407	2007-07-19 21:39:00	Oh......Geforce 4 Go, I that in the work laptop, thanks for the heads-up..... Nvidia driver were supposed to be unified, dont know if you could hack the driver .inf file for the 7 series......Pretty sure the XP drivers are unified.... Dont know sorry......	SolMiester (139)
570408	2007-07-19 21:53:00	The advisor doesn't and couldn't possibly check that there are drivers for every single piece of hardware available. All it does is make sure your basic hardware (RAM, Gfx card, CPU etc) meets certain minimum criteria that is needed for Vista to run. I'm not sure whether nVidia ever plan to produce drivers for the 4200, but I would doubt it. Roll back to XP, you'll be much happier :)	autechre (266)
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