How to upgrade latest Nvidia driver for Dell Vostro 3700

25 Dec 2011 at 11:42

Ismail Saleh

Personal, Tech

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I hate Dell for this. I hate Nvidia for keep it quiet too.

This issues has been actively discussed on both Dell & Nvidia forums. While Dell representative is quite helpful, Nvidia just keep it quiet. But in the end, Dell also not doing anything.

The issues for this specific model Dell Vostro 3300 and 3700 is using Switchable GPU. Means you’re able to run on NVidia GPU (some one 330M, some on 310M etc) when you need it like for gaming. But when not needed you’ll run on Intel HD and thus saving battery life. The idea is good.

However, you’re limited to Dell provided driver only. And they’re not updating it. At first this was no issues for me, as I’m able to play all of my game. This become a problem when I can’t play Need For Speed Run. Because it required me to have latest graphic driver. How old is the driver? Now is the end of 2011, Dell driver is from 2010…. Duh!

Somehow Dell did not put disabling command in BIOS to. The Dell representative said, in pre-production BIOS the command is available…. But not available on production one. But it’s confusing one because in manual it have. And as one of the user point it out, the Dell support Level 2 simply said just return the unit and get a different unit without the problem. Why we buy from Dell anyway?

So here is how:

  1. Uninstall NVidia Driver
  2. Run Nasty File Remover (Please download from reputable website)
  3. Download Intel HD driver from Intel web
  4. Download NVidia Latest Driver from NVidia Web
  5. Install Intel HD driver first.
  6. It might not work, so after restart you need to go to Device Manager -> Display Adapter -> 1st VGA device, do Update Driver and browse for Intel HD driver you just download
  7. After restart again, you will see you get back your normal resolution (1600 x 900). First step successful! Congrats! Clap! Clap! Clap!
  8. Now go to Device Manager again. Go for the only VGA device (another one is Intel HD, which we install driver already) -> Right Click, Properties -> Details ->Select “Hardware ID”
  9. You need to copy the Hardware ID. I recommend to copy it to Notepad.
  10. Run Nvidia Installer
  11. When it says No Hardware Detected, just cancel it.
  12. Browse to where you extract the Nvidia Driver.
  13. Find the file name “nvam.inf”
  14. Edit this file in Notepad (I use notepad++)
  15. You need to find this line -> NVIDIA_DEV.0A35.06 = “NVIDIA GeForce GT 325M     ”  (yes including the space and “)
  16. Press Enter. Paste this -> NVIDIA_DEV.0A29.01 = “NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M” (yes including the “)
  17. Then find this line -> %NVIDIA_DEV.0A35.06% = Section048, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0A35&SUBSYS_1F171043
  18. Press Enter, Paste this -> %NVIDIA_DEV.0A29.01% = Section050, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0A29&SUBSYS_044F1028
  19. Save the “nvam.inf” file
  20. Re-run the NVidia setup again
  21. Now you should be able to install driver already.
  22. After restart, you will have the NVidia Control Panel icon on taskbar
  23. You’re done

So you get it now? In NVidia drivers they dont have our hardware/device ID, so how in the hell the driver installer going to detect it? So the steps above simple adding our hardware ID into the installer list. Thats all. Oh, the Intel HD part? Because NVidia require the Intel HD to install first.

Now you can configure in control panel on which application to use NVidia GPU, or set it to auto. (This part I’m still experimenting)

Now I can run Need for Speed Run. But NVidia GPU will overheat and laptop will shutdown. This is another issues that has been discussed, poor airflow design by Dell for Vostro 3700 cause this. (This also I’m still experimenting on how to deal with it)

*Update – Solve overheat issues by using this big fan

Tulis lain, buat lain

13 Oct 2011 at 03:25

Ismail Saleh

business, Personal

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Senang cerita cakap tak serupa bikin. Cerita dia macam ni. Aku nak poskan kamera Dslr ke Melaka. Sadly dah jual Nikon D40x aku. Kerana terdesak perlukan duit, jual la. Bukak harga mahal sikit, lepas nego dan tolak barang yang dia tak nak, so jual lah ia….

Jadi aku pegi ke Skynet. So sekarang ni memang aku tak prepare apa, kamera masuk dalam beg, ikat beg ketat – ketat. Cukupla padding dekat bag tu. Jadi kat Skynet aku kata, aku nak pos kamera, ke Melaka. Problem pertama, takder kotak. Tanyalah aku kepada awek kaunter tersebut (kenapa semua kat kaunter mesti awek?) ade kotak tak. Dia masuk dalam dan cari. Lama la jugak, cam 10 ~ 20 minit camtu.

Bila dah keluar, dia bawak la kotak Skynet. Sekali ada lagi sorang staff ni keluar sekali….

(Pendek cerita, ni perbualan dengan staff tersebut)

Staff: Kami tak accept valueble items.
Aku: (Tunjuk ke dinding, ade notis Skynet) Ini takder tulis pun.
Staff: Oh! Diorang lupa letak la tu.

Oh. WTF moment. Apekebende notis camtu pun boleh diorang pertikaikan.

Staff: Kami boleh terima tapi tak jamin la (Pulak?? Tadi kata tak accept).
Aku: Saya tak kisah, sekarang ni boleh letak padding sikit tak, kertas ke.
Staff: Ni valueble items, kami tak jamin, nanti hilang ka, rosak ka, kami tak boleh bayar.
Aku: Memanglah korang tak boleh bayar pun…… (Duh!)

Time ni dia dah cakap – cakap ngan staff lagi sorang. Pastu cakap bahasa ibunda dia yang aku tak paham.

Staff: Bukan apa, nanti kamera ni diorang baling – baling nanti kamera rosak.
Aku: Ni, kat kotak “Handle with care” ? (refer kepada kotak Skynet)
Staff: Pukul 2 pagi dalam van, mana ada orang nak handle with care.

Ahhhhhh. Tensyen pulak aku dengan minah ni.

Aku: Sebelum ni saya pakai Skynet jugak, pos handphone apa semua ok je.
Staff: Itu diorang tak check la tu.
Aku: Diorang bukak je tengok semua barang.
Staff: Haaa??!! Macam mana boleh lepas?

Wah…. Ingat aku pakai jampi ke hape. Dah terang – terang staff Skynet tu yang bukak kotak aku, check satu – satu, siap isi borang declare barang ape. Pastu aku sign. Itu pun kire magic ke boleh lepas.

Apekah permaslahan dengan Skynet yang aku pergi tu tak tahu ler. Aku pun confuse jadinya, nak accept ke tak aku nak courier tu. Nak kata tak nak accept, siap ambik kotak, siap tolong box, potong kotak kasi fit betul – betul dengan item. Siap tape lagi. Tapi banyak mulut pulakkkk.

Jadinya… Siap selamat la pos dslr tersebut. Dan sudahpun diterima dan diconfirmkan ok semuanya oleh pembeli tersebut.

Moral of the story di sini… Aku sangat tak paham dengan staff Skynet tersebut.

Macro 101

15 Jul 2011 at 20:58

Ismail Saleh

Photography

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Today I did a little experiment. Based on my reading on the word wide web thanks to Google for guiding me where to look things up.

This is the normal view. Taken with Nikkor 18-55 Kits lens at 55mm. This shows how small the spider is. It is small.

This is when you reverse mount your 50mm prime lens. Nikkor 50mm 1.8D mount on reverse ring mount. This is actually a cheap but versatile lens. You can do potrait, now you can do macro too. Reverse ring mount should cost you between RM10 ~ RM30 depend on which shop.

This when things get interesting. Based on my reading, you can get better magnification when you put other lens in front of the lens. Particularly a prime lens with aperture wide open. So I put 50mm 1.8D at f/1.8 and put on reverse at the front of Nikkor 18-55 kit lens at 55mm. This is what I get. Better magnification. But you get the black round around the image because of 50mm lens barrel. You can easily crop it off.

Now I got Nikkor 70-300 VR lens too. This I try out at 100mm and 50mm 1.8d in front. Again, you get better magnification, shallow DOF and black round which you crop it off too.

This is the most interesting one. Nikkor 70-300 VR at 200mm with 50mm 1.8D in front. No Black round, very shallow DOF, very high magnification.

So now I need to a bit more research on how to attach the lens in front, maybe use rubber band, maybe use some sort of mount, I don’t know.  I also need to experiment more on what aperture suitable at 200mm since the one as picture is too shallow and not to say very hard to get things in focus.

Until then, happy photography :)

 

 

KLCC Vertorama

06 Jul 2011 at 23:37

Ismail Saleh

Photography

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Ditangkap pada hari ini setalah mundar mandir sekitar kotaraya Kuala Lumpur cari parking tak jumpa – jumpa. Nak cari parking free sebenarnya, sebab tu tak jumpa. Parking berbayar mahal sangat la mak ngah!

Dari segi teknikal, ini ditangkap menggunakan Nikon D90, lens Nikkor 28-85mm f3.5-4.5 pada 28mm. 4 keping gambar ditangkap, berlainan shutter speed, dari yang atas puncak pada kelajuan 1/1250 saat sehingga yang bawah pada kelajuan 1/320 saat. Ketetapan yang sama untuk Aperture iaitu f/4.5 dan ISO 200.

Sangat mudah dengan menggunakan Photoshop CS5 untuk buat panorama atau vertorama seperti ini. Ini idea untuk video yang akan datang. Nantikan :)

 

Macro Shots

05 Jul 2011 at 22:48

Ismail Saleh

Photography

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This is achieved by having Nikon Sb600 at the left side, control through commander mode in the Nikon D90 set to manual if not mistaken 1/32 (in the camera) (or could be 1/64) because the Exif does not have the flash information.

This is a very small plant. I thought it is a flower, but later informed by my mother it was not a flower. The plant is use to treat some sickness (I don’t know what). But it sure looks nice.

 

 

There will always be

02 Jul 2011 at 21:41

Ismail Saleh

Personal, Photography

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This picture that I took at Taman Tasik Titiwangsa, KL always will be my inspiration. I think it as “There will always be light shine on you”. Shorten a bit, it become “There will always be”.

So many possibilities that could happen, there will always be new things to try out, every day, every second of our live.

Despite right now I am so down that I can’t even focus with what I am doing with my life, this picture give me strength that there is light in the end of the tunnel. There will always be a good ending for this misery right now.

Dear God, I beg for your forgiveness for that I did lots of stupid thing, lots of sin and please guide me to the right path. The path that lead to Al-Jannah.

Note: When people are in love they tend to forget God, they think they own the world. They don’t. I think I own the world. Truthfully I don’t and last night I learn the pain of truth.

Ensearch Photography Workshop

02 Jul 2011 at 15:35

Ismail Saleh

Photography

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I know about this free workshop from PhotoMalaysia forum. I quickly send an email to reserve a place. I thought its gonna be full since its free and how expensive a normal photography workshop can be (around RM500++).

It was held at Faber Towers at Taman Desa. Free parking (maybe on Saturday and Sunday only – I dont know). Quite big hall to accommodate enough crowd.

At start I think it is better if Puan Susi (if not mistaken) do the introduction rather than playing slideshow with lots of text to read. I get bored with the slideshow. I know being NGO and such means they do not have enough fund to do nice video montage, just less text, more picture would be better for the introduction

slideshow.

Ok. It was not a fully featured workshop. More of talk. But a very informative one from the speaker Mr. Sanjitpaal Singh. There are few point that I take during the talk/experience sharing.

  • Photography is fun and an amazing thing to do.
  • Best way to improve photography is not to spend more time in front of laptop. Go out and shoot!
  • Aperture priority is the most popular choice among amateur. Recommended to use to enter the competition (Ensearch National Photography Competition 2011) also recommended to use small aperture number (big opening).
  • White balance determine how cold or warm your photo is. Cold refer to blue, Warm refer to red.
  • Try to mess around with White Balance, it’ll come out as slightly different color. Not for documentary since it need the natural looking.
  • Quick way to determine what White Balance to use is to turn on Live View and play around with White Balance see which one closest to pure white. [Referred as cheat way]
  • In the competition, judges look for beauty.
  • Beauty does not mean pretty.
  • Beauty can be interpret in many ways.
    • Colors.
    • Composition.
    • Action.
    • Surrounding.
    • Angle.
    • Subject.

And a few experience that I manage to jot down.

Mr. Sanjitpaal is on assignment on taking photo of Orang utan at Sepilok. When in forest, he saw Orang Utan at a big tree, very huge called Ironwood. Se he going up by ladder and onto the platform at around 300++ feet. Then he start taking photos with his Olympus 300mm with tele converter which translate to around 1200mm (I dont know what else is involved – Missed some part here) and weight around 13 kg. He spend about an hour taking picture when shutter make funny sound. Then shutter broke. Not working. He said, imagine I am deep in a forest with broken camera. Nothing to do, so pack the items and go to Kota Kinabalu and called the sponsor to update on what happen. The sponsor said no problem, go to this shop and get a replacement camera. Unfortunately it is weekend and the shop is closed. He had to wait for the shop to open to get replacement camera and continue with the assignment.

My take on this is shit happen, so best we prepared for it when it happen.

Never ever use flash to take Owl picture. There is a case where a guy take picture of an Owl with flash multiple times. The Owl got scared and fly away. Not far from that around 200m or so they found the Owl dead. [Something to do with Owl sensitive eyes being blind by the flash and who knows what happen - my add]

Same goes to frog, never use flash to take picture of it. Not even LED flashlight. The white light make them scared. Best to used the yellow bulb flashlight.

Overall I enjoy the workshop though it was kind of short. But what to expect from a free workshop. Also you got almost all the tips on how to enter and win the competition. The tips is direct from the judges of the competition. What more can you ask ?

Note to myself, next time bring name card (still not finish yet printing meh?) so we can exchange contact. Kinda hard to wrote down phone no and email.

 

Hate

02 Jul 2011 at 01:26

Ismail Saleh

Personal

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I hate happy people

I am happy for those who suffer

Shortest entry ever (for me)

X-Men First Class

24 Jun 2011 at 23:10

Ismail Saleh

Personal

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I was out with a friend. Since that his day off he called me up to go out for a movie. But first we head for our lunch at Desa Pandan. Fuh! I ordered Ikan Pari Bakar and he go for Asam Pedas Jenahak. Total damage is around RM26++. Expensive! So we eat it all :)

After done eating we check out the closest cinema with the fastest showtime is Pavillion KL. It was actually my first time going there by car. I agreed that the parking is pretty much cut throat. We pay like RM 9 …. I was like WTF, better I go for Valet Parking if like this. Also lift is quite a puzzle. We go up 5th floor. When going back down cannot take the same lift (no button at all at outside), ask a guard there we need to take Service lift. This is just like The Gardens when I took service lift and whole light turn off. Shit!

Back with X-Men First Class.

The starting kinda like Dejavu where I think I already watch the movie and I think Oh Great, I pay to watch again…. Then only I realise it is totally different movie. Haha.

I’d say the movie is great.

Shows quite well the history of Professor X and the team and how Magneto is created.

The only comment I have is they does not show people trying to cure the paralyzed Professor X. From the moment he took the bullet, so we just assume Prof X just become paralyzed without even try to prevent it?

Maybe he just accept it?

Komen KL Gangster

16 Jun 2011 at 07:51

Ismail Saleh

Personal

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Dah tengok KL Gangster? Apa? Belum? Pergilah tengok. Sekarang panggung dah tak penuh dah. Tiket ada walaupun beli last minit.

Jadi aku pun tengok dekat TGV KLCC. Katanya ada renovation tapi tak nampak pun kat mana. Kerusi dia masih lagi sempit macam biasa. Lain kali tengok kat TGV Capsquare, ambik couple seat, selesa sikit.

Rasanya ramai orang sangat – sangat suka dengan Aaron Aziz. Aku lagi suka Aaron Aziz dalam cerita Dua Alam. Hehe. Tapi ramai orang tak suka cerita Dua Alam. Bagi aku Dua Alam ok apa? Tapi aku pun tak tengok kat panggung… Ehem Ehem jugak. Kalau Dr Rozmey jual cerita Dua Alam RM1 sekali download pun ok jugak kan? Tapi file sharing site dah kena block….

Apa ni, asyik off topic ja ni…

Ok. First sekali KL Gangster nampak sangat yang melayu nak cakap slang chinese, aku ingatkan sikit – sikit, tapi semua sekali macam tu. Cuma Malek (Aaron Aziz) ja yang kurang sikit slang dia. Mungkin sebab 5 tahun duduk dalam penjara. Slang dah hilang.

Kongsi bawak slang kelate (atau selatan Thailand) memang membuatkan aku suka. Lari dari kelainan. Mungkin aku expect KL Gangster menggunakan bahasa baku 100%. Haha. Gila… Jadi macam filem Yusof Haslam balik la…. Jangan jangan :P

Jalan cerita yang agak OK. Bagi aku kurang lagi penghayatan jalan cerita tu. Aksi pun kurang mendebarkan. Fighting scene tu nampak sangat staging. Walaupun memang la aku tau ni filem, bukan dokumentari ke hapa. Tapi kemon la! Gaduh tu gaduh la tapi dah macam tengah prektis pun ada. Scene yang patutnya cepat, pantas jadi slow sebab nak timing tangan dan kaki untuk tumbuk/tendang dan tepis/elak.

Komen pasal jalan cerita pulak, aku rasa banyak sangat unsur drama yang nak dimasukkan tapi kena cut sebab nak cukupkan masa ke hapa tak tau lah. Syamsul Yusof nak sambung buat drama ke?

Ada disebut King dengan Malek sama – sama naik waktu dulu. Tapi tak ada flashback (ke aku dah tertidor time flashback). Jadi aku rasa penghayatan akan lebih lagi kalau ada flashback tunjuk betapa taikonya Malek dengan King time muda – muda dulu.

Dan last sekali Syamsul Yusof pilih untuk bermain selamat. Patutnya masukkan sedikit realiti di mana orang – orang atasan pun ada hubungan dengan Gangster, tapi tak dipaparkan. Tunjuk jaga kawasan je. By orang – orang atasan aku maksudkan menteri – menteri di dalam kerajaan. Mungkin betul atau tak, tapi aku percaya realitinya ada involvement direct or indirectly. Jadi paparkanlah, lagipun cerita ni kan fiksyen, apa pun boleh jadi :)

Aku juga sangat berharap KL Gangster 2 nanti, Syamsul Yusof dapat bawak masuk Yus Jambu sebagai watak kaki pukul muka legend tapi dalam hati ada taman beb!

Overall aku enjoy tengok KL Gangster. Walaupun kesempitan disebabkan kerusi TGV yang kecik. Walaupun orang di depan aku ni kejap angkat tangan, kejap letak tangan atas kepala, kejap tegakkan badan, asyik nak blocking view. Last sekali aku hilang sabar aku tepuk bahu dia. Barulah dia tak blocking view lagi. Nak angkat tangan ke kaki ke tengok kat Astro First kat rumah la (ada ke?).

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