I've got a Sony VAIO with GeForce 7400Go. Doom 3 and my OpenGL programs run
fine before Vista SP1 and crash at startup after SP1 update. I notice the
nvidia driver installed is 2006/12/19, version 7.15.10.9754. Sony does not
have any new driver on its website and Nvidia does not provide drivers for
laptops. I'd like to know which is culprit of the break of my opengl apps,
Vista SP1 or nvidia driver?

The nVidia driver is the culprit.

"Leonard" <Leonard@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F78C3C81-DF86-4EE6-9C99-CC75DB6F0BB7@microsoft.com...
> I've got a Sony VAIO with GeForce 7400Go. Doom 3 and my OpenGL programs
> run
> fine before Vista SP1 and crash at startup after SP1 update. I notice the
> nvidia driver installed is 2006/12/19, version 7.15.10.9754. Sony does not
> have any new driver on its website and Nvidia does not provide drivers for
> laptops. I'd like to know which is culprit of the break of my opengl apps,
> Vista SP1 or nvidia driver?

Thanks, Shane,

Since Sony does not have any new driver on its website and Nvidia does not
provide drivers for laptops, is it OK to install desktop driver on my laptop?

"Shane Nokes" wrote:

> The nVidia driver is the culprit.
>
> "Leonard" <Leonard@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F78C3C81-DF86-4EE6-9C99-CC75DB6F0BB7@microsoft.com...
> > I've got a Sony VAIO with GeForce 7400Go. Doom 3 and my OpenGL programs
> > run
> > fine before Vista SP1 and crash at startup after SP1 update. I notice the
> > nvidia driver installed is 2006/12/19, version 7.15.10.9754. Sony does not
> > have any new driver on its website and Nvidia does not provide drivers for
> > laptops. I'd like to know which is culprit of the break of my opengl apps,
> > Vista SP1 or nvidia driver?
>

Try it. But you might also want to look on Windows Update too, there may be
a newer driver there which will do the job.

If there's no luck with the nVidia driver try one of the hacked drivers from
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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"Leonard" <Leonard@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C46AA18F-EFE1-4046-BD2A-7AD11028420A@microsoft.com...
> Thanks, Shane,
>
> Since Sony does not have any new driver on its website and Nvidia does not
> provide drivers for laptops, is it OK to install desktop driver on my
> laptop?
>
> "Shane Nokes" wrote:
>
>> The nVidia driver is the culprit.
>>
>> "Leonard" <Leonard@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F78C3C81-DF86-4EE6-9C99-CC75DB6F0BB7@microsoft.com...
>> > I've got a Sony VAIO with GeForce 7400Go. Doom 3 and my OpenGL programs
>> > run
>> > fine before Vista SP1 and crash at startup after SP1 update. I notice
>> > the
>> > nvidia driver installed is 2006/12/19, version 7.15.10.9754. Sony does
>> > not
>> > have any new driver on its website and Nvidia does not provide drivers
>> > for
>> > laptops. I'd like to know which is culprit of the break of my opengl
>> > apps,
>> > Vista SP1 or nvidia driver?
>>

Thanks, Paul.

I have tried the nvidia desktop video driver (175.19) and this driver
refused to install on my system.
What do you mean to *look* on Windows Update? Since I have turnd on Windows
update in control panel, I hope Vista will fetch and install everything
automatically.

"Paul Smith" wrote:

> Try it. But you might also want to look on Windows Update too, there may be
> a newer driver there which will do the job.
>
> If there's no luck with the nVidia driver try one of the hacked drivers from
> http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/
>
> --
> Paul Smith,
> Yeovil, UK.
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
> http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
> http://www.windowsresource.net/
>
> *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail*
>
>
> "Leonard" <Leonard@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C46AA18F-EFE1-4046-BD2A-7AD11028420A@microsoft.com...
> > Thanks, Shane,
> >
> > Since Sony does not have any new driver on its website and Nvidia does not
> > provide drivers for laptops, is it OK to install desktop driver on my
> > laptop?
> >
> > "Shane Nokes" wrote:
> >
> >> The nVidia driver is the culprit.
> >>
> >> "Leonard" <Leonard@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:F78C3C81-DF86-4EE6-9C99-CC75DB6F0BB7@microsoft.com...
> >> > I've got a Sony VAIO with GeForce 7400Go. Doom 3 and my OpenGL programs
> >> > run
> >> > fine before Vista SP1 and crash at startup after SP1 update. I notice
> >> > the
> >> > nvidia driver installed is 2006/12/19, version 7.15.10.9754. Sony does
> >> > not
> >> > have any new driver on its website and Nvidia does not provide drivers
> >> > for
> >> > laptops. I'd like to know which is culprit of the break of my opengl
> >> > apps,
> >> > Vista SP1 or nvidia driver?
> >>
>