Blender not working with NVIDIA K3000M on Dell Precision M6700

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I am using a Dell Precision M6700 laptop with an NVIDIA K3000M graphics card. The issue I am facing is that Blender does not seem to support this GPU. Whenever I try to run Blender for designing animations for my website project, it either crashes or does not load properly.

I already tried updating the drivers to the latest available version, but the problem still persists. This is becoming frustrating as I am not able to continue my project smoothly, and I am looking for any guidance on whether there is a workaround, or if the K3000M is simply no longer supported by current Blender versions.
Thanks

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Judging from existing c:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 4.5\4.5\scripts\addons_core\cycles\lib\kernel_sm_30.cubin.zst there is still Kepler support.

The folder c:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 4.5\ contains several CMD files to run Blender in debug mode. Maybe the logs give you a clue what is going wrong.