Trouble getting CUDA to work on Dell XPS 15 laptop

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Hi,

I have recently acquired a Dell XPS 15 laptop with an Intel Core i7 740QM cpu, an nVidia GT435M graphics card, and 6 GB DDR3 RAM. After installing the Cuda toolkit and Cuda SDK, when I try to execute bandwidthtest, I get the following error in Windows 7 (64 bit):

[bandwidthTest]

bandwidthTest.exe starting...

Running on...

Quick Mode

d:/bld_sdk10_x64.pl/rel/gpgpu/toolkit/r3.2/sdk/SDK10/Compute/C/src/bandwidthTest

/bandwidthTest.cu(598) : cudaSafeCall() Runtime API error : CUDA driver version

is insufficient for CUDA runtime version.

I understand that I require a CUDA capable driver from nVidia, but when I try to download one from the nVidia site, I am asked to download drivers from Dell rather than nVidia.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I have tried to install both

devdriver_3.2_winvista-win7_64_260.99_notebook.exe

and

devdriver_3.2_winvista-win7_64_263.06_general.exe

as drivers. But I get the message “This graphics driver could not find compatible graphics hardware.”

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[SOLVED]

The correct driver to download is

266.58_notebook_winvista_win7_64bit_international_whql.exe

NOT (at least at this time) the ones on the NVIDIA “Get CUDA” webpage.