Windows 8 Consumer Preview Nvidia Driver Issues

jollygenral

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I am the owner of a dellalienware m14x with a geforce gt 555m 4gb video card, and I have thewindows 8 consumer preview installed.


Since my installation of theOS a few days ago, I have yet to find a driver to support my videocard.


I began to try to fix theissue by installing Nvidia's newest 295.73 driver from ge-force'swebsite. It installed properly, but upon restarting the system theWindows 8 start up menu became blank with a visible cursor (commonproblem when updating drivers). I did a system restore and it removethe driver.


I then tried to reinstallthe same driver, but the installation process failed midway throughgiving me the message “Nvidia Installer Failed”. It no longer canbe installed.


I recently got an optionalwindows update providing an Nvidia driver (296.17) for my geforce gt555m card. I tried installing the optional update only to have theupdate fail over and over again. The error code: 800F0102 is given.


There you have it. Any helpwith these issues is very appreciated :) (snide remarks and emptycomments are not). Should I wait for dell or Nvidia to come out withnew drivers? What else can I do?


Thanks!
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 Consumer Preview 64-bit
The first time I installed Win 8 I went through all that kerfuffle. For other reasons I formatted and then reinstalled it. This time I altered Windows Update to receive updates for all components using Microsoft Update and in came an Nvidia driver that isn't even listed at Nvidia's website and is a later numbered version than those in my other OS's. Have you tried that? Mine works a treat but of course I have a different graphics card.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 7 Ult SP1 + Win 10 Pro - (x64)
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Alienware® ALX X58
    CPU
    Intel® Core i7-975 Extreme 3.86 GHz 8MB Cache
    Motherboard
    ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 Socket 1366 Core i7, Dual Triple Channel DDR3 Mem
    Memory
    24GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 6 x 4096MB
    Graphics Card(s)
    1792 MB NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 295/Hauppauge HVR2250 TV Tuner
    Sound Card
    Onboard Soundmax® High definition Sound
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung XL2370 LED
    Screen Resolution
    1920 X 1080P
    Hard Drives
    2 X 500gb SATA
    1 X 1TB SATA
    1 X 3TB external eSATA
    (Non-RAID)
    PSU
    Alienware® 1200 Watt Multi-GPU
    Case
    Alienware® P2 ALX Chassis with AlienIce 3.0 Video Cooling
    Cooling
    Alienware® High-Perf. Liquid Cooling + Acoustic Dampening
    Keyboard
    Microsoft® Wireless Entertainment 8000 + Logitech® G15 Wired
    Mouse
    Microsoft® Wireless Laser 8000 + Logitech® G9 Wired
    Internet Speed
    1tbs
    Other Info
    Using non-RAID on purpose as I find it too fussy and temperamental.
The first time I installed Win 8 I went through all that kerfuffle. For other reasons I formatted and then reinstalled it. This time I altered Windows Update to receive updates for all components using Microsoft Update and in came an Nvidia driver that isn't even listed at Nvidia's website and is a later numbered version than those in my other OS's. Have you tried that? Mine works a treat but of course I have a different graphics card.
How did you format and then re install windows 8 to accept your graphics card/receive the optional update? I really don't know how to do that.

Thanks,
Luke
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 Consumer Preview 64-bit
I multi-boot so formatting a drive from, say, Vista is easy. In Windows Update settings you can ask it to use different settings.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 7 Ult SP1 + Win 10 Pro - (x64)
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Alienware® ALX X58
    CPU
    Intel® Core i7-975 Extreme 3.86 GHz 8MB Cache
    Motherboard
    ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 Socket 1366 Core i7, Dual Triple Channel DDR3 Mem
    Memory
    24GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 6 x 4096MB
    Graphics Card(s)
    1792 MB NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 295/Hauppauge HVR2250 TV Tuner
    Sound Card
    Onboard Soundmax® High definition Sound
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung XL2370 LED
    Screen Resolution
    1920 X 1080P
    Hard Drives
    2 X 500gb SATA
    1 X 1TB SATA
    1 X 3TB external eSATA
    (Non-RAID)
    PSU
    Alienware® 1200 Watt Multi-GPU
    Case
    Alienware® P2 ALX Chassis with AlienIce 3.0 Video Cooling
    Cooling
    Alienware® High-Perf. Liquid Cooling + Acoustic Dampening
    Keyboard
    Microsoft® Wireless Entertainment 8000 + Logitech® G15 Wired
    Mouse
    Microsoft® Wireless Laser 8000 + Logitech® G9 Wired
    Internet Speed
    1tbs
    Other Info
    Using non-RAID on purpose as I find it too fussy and temperamental.
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