I’ve installed forceware drivers 169.21 using laptopvideo2go.com’s hacked .inf file.
CUDA 1.1 SDK and toolkit is installed, but the sample projects still give me a “There is no device supporting cuda” error message.
I’ve reinstalled drivers and sdk several times now to no avail.
Well, that is why you have to use laptopvideo2.go’s hacked .INF file, and overwrite the existing .inf file in the unpacked driver data with the one you download off that page.
Nailer
What OS are you running?
It’s the first time such problem occurs. My Acer 5920G with 8600M GT works just fine.
Check that you’ve actually installed driver, rebooted, etc. (I’m sure you’ve done it correctly).
Have you installed 1.1 toolkit over 1.0 or performed a clean install? When upgrading to 1.1 it’s requred to uninstall 1.0 first. Try uninstalling 1.1 Toolkit and SDK, rebooting and installing them again.
It will give you the standard message during installation on a notebook
“The NVIDIA Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware.”
The driver will have still left the extracted installation files on your disk.
(usually in \NVIDIA\Win2*\169.2*.…)
Go into that directory and replace the inf file that was extracted with the nv4_disp.inf from the link above and run setup.exe in that same directory.
I’ve just done this on my 8600M GT. The driver installation complained about a few dll’s but just hit cancel and tell it to continue. works fine. I think the missing dll’s are simply because the hacked inf file above references some files that don’t actually exist.
And, as mentioned, then you need the CUDA v1.1 toolkit and sdk.
It’s important to remember that this is going with an unsupported driver on your notebook - one not approved by your notebook vendor. Even if you use the Released 169.21, that’s not for notebooks. I’ve seen notebook vendors that are in the process of updating to newer drivers that do include CUDA, but it takes a while (send them a note requesting it ;) . So if you use the unsupported driver, you may not get access to certain features or special buttons on your notebook. But for now it’s the way to get CUDA and to get on a newer driver.
Please post here if this works for anyone or if anyone has problems with this.
If it works, I’ll move this post up so hopefully folks can find it faster.
Thanks!
That’s intersting. Don’t know if that’s some kind of priv problem.
One note: if you’re trying to install the 169.21 GeForce driver, you would find the nvcuda.dll that you need in the directory where the driver installation files are extracted. Still nice of your friend to provide one.