Hi guys,

A friend of mine has a Dell XPS 1530 laptop which has a 8600M GT Nvidia card built in.

He did a format/clean install last night and went to Win 7 64b. On booting windows used the default display and didn't have the drivers needed for his card.

He went to the nvidia site and got the latest 64b W7 drivers 195.16(?) for his card. Installed, rebooted as normal.

Now when he is using the laptop he will receive a black screen at random times (browsing, iplayer, basic gaming) and then it will go back to desktop after 5-10 seconds and state "Display driver failed to initialize" error message.

I have had a search and can't find the fix although I know of other laptops that have had a similar problem with nvidia cards, I just don't know the fix.

Any ideas?

Double check on the version of the driver, there is actually 4 versions of the 195 drivers, 3 of which are beta and 1 whql.

The latest drivers are 197.16 which are also whql.

try this link for a list of archived drivers.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

Cheers for that millsy. He has shown me the link he has downloaded from and it is the WHQL version.

I would have thought given the age of this gpu and the length of time W7 has been out it should have been sorted now or in an older version of the drivers. I have seen this was an issue for many Vista users too.

Seems odd that I can't find a direct fix for it, many people say make sure newest DirectX is installed, some say update BIOS, try 179.48 driver (first w7 beta ones). He has a list of things to try at the moment just very odd there is no single fix through an official driver download as it is clearly driver related.

I had the exact same error on my laptop (7200 card in it) tried all the drivers but the error persisted. I eventually went back to win xp and have not had a problem since. So it's definitely a win7 driver issue.

Hope he finds a driver that works for him.

Damn, well I hope we don't have to use XP considering he got himself a student version of Win 7 for his laptop.

I'm sure there has to be a fix out there, just gotta work it out!

Knubje said:

Damn, well I hope we don't have to use XP considering he got himself a student version of Win 7 for his laptop.

I'm sure there has to be a fix out there, just gotta work it out!

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I just didn't have the patience at the time to sort it out. Needed a working laptop ASAP, hence me putting xp on it.