[dba-Tech] Windows 10 drivers NVIDIA geforce monitor - Final

Wed Aug 3 23:57:09 CDT 2016

You should see if you could transfer the OS installations to VMS.

On 8/3/2016 11:50 PM, John R Bartow wrote:
> Nothing wrong with that. My Win10 system has a full backup of both its
> Windows 7 and Windows XP versions on the server that I can restore in short
> order if I want to.
>
> My Windows 98 system remains Windows 98 :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> Tina Norris Fields
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 7:29 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Windows 10 drivers NVIDIA geforce monitor - Final
>
> Okay, the bottom line is:
>
> My Win 7 box remains Win 7
>
> My Win 8.1 box remains Win 8.1
>
> My Win XP box remains Win XP
>
> Sometime next year I will purchase a Win 10 box.
>
> The separate boxen, running different OSs will continue as before.
>
> Thank you to everyone who responded.
>
> TNF
>
> Tina Norris Fields
> tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com
> 231-322-2787
>
> On 07/22/16 8:08 AM, Tina Norris Fields wrote:
>> I may end up just keeping the several different systems.  My Inspiron
>> 9400 is WinXP (bought in 2006), and it's working. I bought the Vostro
>> 3500 in 2011 with Win7 pro to keep abreast of the new OS and match the
>> ones we have on campus. I bought the Inspiron 15-R in 2013, running
>> Win8 64-bit - upgraded it to 8.1 - and it is my current main computer.
>> All are seeing each other on the network, and I use them for different
>> things. For example, most of the genealogical stuff is on the Win7 pro
>> computer; but all of the Adobe Creative Cloud stuff is on the Win8.1
>> 64-bit machine, along with all the accounting stuff.
>>
>> TNF
>>
>> Tina Norris Fields
>> tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com
>> 231-322-2787
>>
>> On 07/21/16 10:31 PM, Gary Kjos wrote:
>>> Yea I saw that as I scrolled further down.  Some work and some don't
>>> and some aren't happy with the end result even when it did work.  We
>>> use 7 at work and I run 10, Vista and XP at home on different systems
>>> and I can move from system to system and share things across all of
>>> them pretty much without issues.  I did learn that supposedly my old
>>> XP Laptop could possibly be upgraded to 10.  But it's just too old to
>>> mess with I think. Pretty sure I got it in 2005 so 11 years old.
>>> Still works OK as is and so I'm using it that way.  And now as I
>>> posted a while back that system is having trouble maintaining it's
>>> wifi connection so I think it's loosing it hardware wise too.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Tina Norris Fields
>>> <tinanfields at torchlake.com> wrote:
>>>> The closest thing to a work-around is to remove the NVIDIA adapter
>>>> from the device manager, and use only the Intel drivers. For some,
>>>> that worked. For others, the Wind10 update program still saw the
>>>> NVIDIA GeForce 310M as present and incompatible.  I'm definitely
>>>> bummed. Of course, it's out of warranty - it was purchased in 2010.
>>>> It may have to remain Win7 pro, just as my old Inspiron 9400 is
>>>> still WinXP pro. It'll be only the Inspiron 15-R that's currently
>>>> running Win 8.1 64-bit that can possibly be moved to Win10.
>>>> It's my current main computer. Do I want to risk it on Win10? Got
>>>> about a week to decide.
>>>>
>>>> TNF
>>>>
>>>> Tina Norris Fields
>>>> tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com
>>>> 231-322-2787
>>>>
>>>> On 07/21/16 8:21 PM, Gary Kjos wrote:
>>>>> The Dell Community forum seems to have a work around though...
>>>>>
>>>>> http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3519/t/1963712
>>>>> 5
>>>>> <http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3519/t/196371
>>>>> 25>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/j63bbgh
>>>>>
>>>>> GK
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Tina Norris Fields
>>>>> <tinanfields at torchlake.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The other day, I decided to go ahead and get the Windows 10
>>>>>> switcheroo for my Windows 7 laptop - Dell Vostro 3500.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oops, here comes the message that unfortunately this computer
>>>>>> cannot run Windows 10 because of its monitor - NVIDIA GeForce
>>>>>> 310M.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've been looking for updated drivers for that screen, but so far
>>>>>> without success. The NVIDIA website said the manufacturer of the
>>>>>> computer would want me to use their drivers, but, I'm not finding
>>>>>> those drivers on the Dell site.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Has anybody else run into this?; and if so, were you able to
>>>>>> resolve it?; and if so, how?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> TNF
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Tina Norris Fields
>>>>>> tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com
>>>>>> 231-322-2787
>>>>>>
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