[JeffD]

Originally Posted by BAD9eR

hi all 0/ . possibly a dumb question , i was given an asrock vision 3d 156b by my brother in law . no install disc (i grabbed drivers n such from asrock website) i installed win 7, 32 bit , the index tells me that its graphics are rated as 1.0 ,also the nvidia gpu install program on their website says that there is no nvidia hardware, any ideas as to what i can do to remedy this or if its really gpu-less where i might buy a replacement ??

as you may have guessed im not too techie , soz

Check my post #96 further up the page for how to update the graphic drivers with the latest from the Nvidia website.

[cjmccarthy72]

Originally Posted by JeffD

Finally worked out how to install the latest drivers from the Nvidia site on the 3D Vision

Hi Jeff, thanks for going to the trouble of investigating and posting this fix you detailed in #96. Just a quick question- i have the 252B Sandy Bridge with the GT540M- when like many here, I encountered the problem of loading the latest drivers, I simply installed the non-netbook driver- the one for the GT545. It loaded fine. Does it matter to the performance, etc, that I am using the "wrong drivers"?

[JeffD]

Originally Posted by cjmccarthy72

Hi Jeff, thanks for going to the trouble of investigating and posting this fix you detailed in #96. Just a quick question- i have the 252B Sandy Bridge with the GT540M- when like many here, I encountered the problem of loading the latest drivers, I simply installed the non-netbook driver- the one for the GT545. It loaded fine. Does it matter to the performance, etc, that I am using the "wrong drivers"?

Sorry don't know enough about how the drivers work to say, the 425M was a laptop only part so never looked at trying the desktop drivers. I guess you could try and compare the contents of the different driver packs to see what if any differences there are, but if they loaded ok then I suspect they'll be ok.

[Maniac618]

Anyone having nvidia driver install issues with latest driver version from nvidia for the original Asrock Vsion 3D model?

It says it can't find a compatible gfx card during isntall even though the GT 425m card is listed as supported on the driver FAQ on nvidia's site?!

Any ideas how to get it to install / force install or has anyone else got it to install?

Edit: Just seen others have issues too, checking out posted work around thanks.

[ArmitageShanks]

Originally Posted by Maniac618

Anyone having nvidia driver install issues with latest driver version from nvidia for the original Asrock Vsion 3D model?

It says it can't find a compatible gfx card during isntall even though the GT 425m card is listed as supported on the driver FAQ on nvidia's site?!

I find this seems to be a common problem with most mobile gfx cards. Usually it's some sort of OEM version than needs dedicated drivers from Dell/HP/ASRock etc rather than the generic ones. I haven't had any reason to install the very latest drivers from nVidia, but JeffD's workaround worked nicely the last time I did this

[Maniac618]

Originally Posted by ArmitageShanks

I find this seems to be a common problem with most mobile gfx cards. Usually it's some sort of OEM version than needs dedicated drivers from Dell/HP/ASRock etc rather than the generic ones. I haven't had any reason to install the very latest drivers from nVidia, but JeffD's workaround worked nicely the last time I did this

Yep it did the job and installed fine.

[grnevry]

Originally Posted by cjmccarthy72

Hi Jeff, thanks for going to the trouble of investigating and posting this fix you detailed in #96. Just a quick question- i have the 252B Sandy Bridge with the GT540M- when like many here, I encountered the problem of loading the latest drivers, I simply installed the non-netbook driver- the one for the GT545. It loaded fine. Does it matter to the performance, etc, that I am using the "wrong drivers"?

Actually as stated in the FAQ link http://www.asrock.com/support/qa/TSDQA-86.pdf, this the standard way to update drivers. I have several media streamers, and i am now considering buying an ASROCK VISION 3D 137D. Can anyone confirm that true 24p stuttering issues are resolved with latest Nvidia drivers?

[crisb]

Hello, I have upgraded my Vision 3D to Windows 8 and encountered quite a disaster.

None of the nvidia drivers work so I cannot use the proper screen resolutions, also no audio from HDMI either, and finally none of the BIOS settings are detected so the machine cannot even go to sleep

I have emailed ASrock and logged a support request but essentially it seems I am stuck with a machine that is useless for Windows 8 because ASRock have no drivers available.

Has anyone managed to get this working? I have the i3 version of the Vision 3d with the 425M GPU.

Many thanks

[crisb]

Just to answer my own question -- I finally manage to sort this out after several days messaging around. Now everything works great - proper GPU acceleration, sleep mode, the works .. actually the Vision 3D looks pretty great with Windows 8 Pro running on it :-))

All you need to do is install the Geforce Desktop drivers for Geforce 420 (version 306.97) from the Nvidia site -- god knows why the mobile ones don't detect the card but the Geforece 420 desktop ones do and install perfectly.

I also installed the Windows 7 64-bit Asrock instant boot utility again and now I also have proper sleep mode.

NB: If the desktop drivers fail to install, go to settings, advanced startup on Windows 8 and disable the driver verification. (I did this as a precaution but I reckon you probably won't even need to do this with the desktop drivers as they should be signed).

Cheers

[ArmitageShanks]

That's good to know if I ever take the plunge on Windows 8!

[Fuchs]

CrisB, did you only install those 2 components ? how about the rest ? any ideas when ASRock will release a full package compatible with Win8 ?