Gateway FX laptop Series Thread *mods and upgrades*

[Emmanuel]

Thanks a lot man, hopefully we can get this working soon or else I'll spend tonight installing everything again just like yesterday night...

[johnksss]

click update driver
click browse my computer
click let me pick from list
click have disk
click browse
go to your 17474vista directory
click nv_disp
click ok
it should show your 8800m gts driver
click next

it's taking me a bit because im going through it as we speak on my computer....

screen will flash once or twice and the updated driver should be installed
click close and restart your computer.

[johnksss]

Originally Posted by Emmanuel

Thanks a lot man, hopefully we can get this working soon or else I'll spend tonight installing everything again just like yesterday night...

no problem

no! we will make it work one way or the other.. i hate to reformat when i think i can solve the problem...lol

[Emmanuel]

I already tried with device manager, trying one last thing, install thr 175.63 and the 174.74 over it.

[johnksss]

that would be one of my next suggestions along with running driversweeper if the other stuff didn't work.

[Emmanuel]

I managed to get the old 167 drivers working but it sill won't update to the 174.74, can you really confirm that there isn't any FPS drop right after pulling out the power cord because I don't want to go through hell for nothing.

[Emmanuel]

Allright John from what I read, it is impossible that the 174.74 gets rid of the throttling because I am now convinced that it isn't driver related anymore but hardware related, in other words, we need to flash the BIOS. I figured out a way to avoid reformatting and I am now running driver 175.75

[johnksss]

Originally Posted by Emmanuel

I managed to get the old 167 drivers working but it sill won't update to the 174.74, can you really confirm that there isn't any FPS drop right after pulling out the power cord because I don't want to go through hell for nothing.

yes, it is confirmed.
the only time it will drop down in clock speed is if the computer is idle for more than 30 seconds (while gaming it will never be idle) but once you move the mouse it goes right back to full speed. i was playing a game for about 20 minutes and left the game on for about ten minutes and i did nothing. and it stayed at 500/799

[johnksss]

sorry about the late reply but i fell alseep...these long hours are killing me...lol

[Emmanuel]

Lol no problem but I don't think that you got my point. Windows or any software including GPU-z will not read your new throttled clocks, they will still read 500/799, however you will notice the difference when playing a game, if you monitor your FPS, you will see the obvious drop in performance and FPS. You can run 3DMark06 if you want and simply compare scores with one run on AC, and one run on battery, and you will see clearly the difference.