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Any 90 series Nvidia drivers for the 7900GTX that turn the LCD off when you close it?

post #1 of 27
11/15/06 at 4:08am
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I was originally using a 90 series Nvidia driver, and my LCD turned off when I close it (M1710). However, I was messing with drivers, and somehow can't find the driver/s that work. All the ones I've tried still leave my LCD on when I close the lid. Anyone got any advice? I don't like the 84.69 Dell drivers, despite the fact that they turn my LCD of when I close the lid.

Any help appreciated!
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post #2 of 27
11/15/06 at 3:03pm
This is the fix. Set your display to turn off after a short time. And the fix for displaced icons when reopening the lid.

Displaced Icons Regestry Fix

To fix the problem you have to find registry values named "LidBehavior" beneath this key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video]

To fix the displace icons find registry values named “Lidbehavior” beneath:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video]

This must be applied each time drivers are installed Change
11 (hexadecimal) to 10 (hexadecimal),



[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video]
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post #3 of 27
11/15/06 at 4:28pm
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post #4 of 27
11/15/06 at 4:53pm
i cant find the "LidBehavior" it wont simply appear...
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post #5 of 27
11/15/06 at 5:12pm
I'm not having any problems with my go7900GS using my modded INFs.
The lid works as it should with all the drivers I've tried on it.

I'm currently on 96.97 and the lid opens/closes just fine.

Do make sure you use the add/remove apps to uninstall the old drivers from the system before installing the new ones.
Other wise old settings might cause problems with new drivers.
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post #6 of 27
11/15/06 at 7:33pm
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pieter, would you mind linking me to your INF that you use?

To make sure, when you close the lid of your system, the LCD DOES turn off?

Thanks very much in advance.

**EDIT**

I see what you mean by "my" INFs. I got the 96.97 driver. Trying it now and will report back. Thanks!
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post #7 of 27
11/15/06 at 8:20pm
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pieter: OK, I installed the 96.97 drivers with your INF file and the LCD still won't turn off when I close the lid.

Any other ideas? I did remove all previous nvidia files using Driver Cleaner Pro, and again, this features works perfectly in the 84.69 drivers.
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post #8 of 27
11/15/06 at 9:15pm
WilliamG, did you try the registry change?? That should fix this problem.

When he says a "short time" he means as fast as the video card possibly can, not like turning off the screen after a minute or two. There is a slight delay, and if you flip open your screen very fast you might see it flash on, but it's not like you have to wait or anything. It turns off when you close the lid, and turns back on when you open the lid, thus the name "LidBehavior". Do the registry change before posting again.

(edit) I also wanted to mention, I am not using any modded infs, just the ones which came with my driver, which is the one supplied by Dell - version 8.4.6.3 according to the Device Manager properties. It works fine, runs all my games at highest (or very near highest) settings and 1920x1200, so like my custom title says - "Don't Fix What's Not Broken"! I suppose when something comes out that doesn't run fast enough for me, I might try modded INFs or unofficial drivers, but it is certainly not broken, in fact I had been using an ATI Radeon 9600SE (about 2 years old) before I got this laptop so it is a HUGE step up and I'm happy with it. (/edit)

sergiop, do you have the NVIDIA Geforce Go 7900GS card, or another NVIDIA card? If not, of course you won't find it because it is an NVIDIA thing! But if you do have such a card, then try installing a different (newer) driver.
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post #9 of 27
11/15/06 at 11:00pm
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I think you misunderstand. The Lidbehavior registry entry is for icons resizing themselves after you close the LCD and open it again. Lidbehavior is nothing to do with actually turning the screen off. The "short time" is referring to setting the LCD to turn off after several minutes (or however long you specify). The drivers you are using do indeed turn the LCD off when you close it. The NON-Dell drivers do NOT. That's why you're having no problems. I've now gone back to the 84.69 Dell drivers because clearly the LCD off/on issue is too difficult to solve.
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Originally Posted by ricky28269
WilliamG, did you try the registry change?? That should fix this problem. When he says a "short time" he means as fast as the video card possibly can, not like turning off the screen after a minute or two. There is a slight delay, and if you flip open your screen very fast you might see it flash on, but it's not like you have to wait or anything. It turns off when you close the lid, and turns back on when you open the lid, thus the name "LidBehavior". Do the registry change before posting again. (edit) I also wanted to mention, I am not using any modded infs, just the ones which came with my driver, which is the one supplied by Dell - version 8.4.6.3 according to the Device Manager properties. It works fine, runs all my games at highest (or very near highest) settings and 1920x1200, so like my custom title says - "Don't Fix What's Not Broken"! I suppose when something comes out that doesn't run fast enough for me, I might try modded INFs or unofficial drivers, but it is certainly not broken, in fact I had been using an ATI Radeon 9600SE (about 2 years old) before I got this laptop so it is a HUGE step up and I'm happy with it. (/edit) sergiop, do you have the NVIDIA Geforce Go 7900GS card, or another NVIDIA card? If not, of course you won't find it because it is an NVIDIA thing! But if you do have such a card, then try installing a different (newer) driver.
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post #10 of 27
11/15/06 at 11:15pm
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Originally Posted by WilliamG
pieter: OK, I installed the 96.97 drivers with your INF file and the LCD still won't turn off when I close the lid.

Any other ideas? I did remove all previous nvidia files using Driver Cleaner Pro, and again, this features works perfectly in the 84.69 drivers.
OK that is weird.
I'm running the go7900GTX BIOS on my go7900GS so we've pretty well got the same system as it appears to WinXP.

Can you try grabbing the 84.69 INF and replace the 96.97 INF.
Will mean copying and pasting the 84.69 INF in the 96.97 dir then move/delete the 96.97 INF (as they have different names)
If the LCD turns off with the 84.69 INF then it's a tweak I'll have to find that does it.
If this also doesn't work then it's either a video BIOS or driver prob that is causing it.
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post #11 of 27
11/15/06 at 11:33pm
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I will try it later, thank you. Raiding in WoW right now.

Thanks for the assist.

From reading on the forums, though, it's apparently not something in the inf. But I will try.
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post #12 of 27
11/15/06 at 11:57pm
As a quick offtopic question, what is new in the 90 series that makes it so much better than the 80 series?
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post #13 of 27
11/16/06 at 12:23am
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Originally Posted by Guspaz
As a quick offtopic question, what is new in the 90 series that makes it so much better than the 80 series?
Nothing, just bragging rights.
What are you driving ?
I'm on 96.97
Are you I'm still on 84.69

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post #14 of 27
11/16/06 at 2:20pm
Hmmm this is odd I too no longer have the option to power off the display when the lid is closed perhaps those laptopvideo2go drivers are faulty! Just kidding their great drivers but seriously I no longer have the option how odd is anyone else having this issue?
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post #15 of 27
11/16/06 at 8:49pm
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Well, I downloaded the 96.97 drivers from laptopvideo2go, and then the 84.69 driver from Dell. I deleted the nv4disp.inf from the 96.97 and put in the NVDM.inf from the 84.69. The driver installed fine, but my LCD still will not turn off when I close the lid.

The reason, for those wondering, why I even care to upgrade from the 84.69, is simple: My system has now crashed twice in the last 3 days with the: "NMI: Parity Check / Memory Memory Parity Error" message. It doesn't do this with the 9x.xx series of drivers.

So, now you know.

Any further advice to give, pieter?
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post #16 of 27
11/17/06 at 12:37am
I'm running 96.97 as we speak and I can open/close lid all day long and the laptop will happily go to standby and resume.
I did a clean install of XP and installed 96.97 from the start.
What is happening old bits of driver are lingering and causing your problems.

NV are changing their files round with the new CP being phased in.
These new files are probably not in Drivercleaner yet.

I'll install 84.69 on my testing partition then install 96.97 and see what happens
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post #17 of 27
11/17/06 at 1:09am
OK. here we go.

I had 96.97 installed
Then installed 84.63 (Dell's performance driver) Standby/Resume worked (LCD off)
Then installed 84.69 (Dell driver) Stanby/Resume works (LCD off)
Then installed 96.97 (modded INF) Standby/Resume works (LCD off)

All the above I DIDN'T uninstall the old driver first, just ran setup.exe for each driver.
Rebooted after each install.

So modded INF is not to blame (phew) there must be a driver out there that is leaving nasties.
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post #18 of 27
11/17/06 at 1:13am
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I'm not talking about standby! I'm talking about just turning the LCD off.

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Originally Posted by pieter
I'm running 96.97 as we speak and I can open/close lid all day long and the laptop will happily go to standby and resume.
I did a clean install of XP and installed 96.97 from the start.
What is happening old bits of driver are lingering and causing your problems.

NV are changing their files round with the new CP being phased in.
These new files are probably not in Drivercleaner yet.

I'll install 84.69 on my testing partition then install 96.97 and see what happens
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post #19 of 27
11/17/06 at 1:27am
Okay, LISTEN TO ME PLEASE. You have still not tried the registry fix. If you would have listened to me in the first place, you would not be messing with these new errors that came about from installing and reinstalling new drivers.

The LidBehavior registry value has two bits, thus its value of 00, 01, 10, or 11. The first bit, which would be the "tens digit" in base 10, uses a value of 1 to signify not changing the resolution upon lid closing, or a value of 0 to enable the changing of resolution upon lid closing (changing resolution is what you call "icons resizing themselves"). The second bit, which is the "ones digit", is set to 0 for keep LCD on upon lid closing, or 1 for turn LCD off upon lid closing.

These numbers not the literal ten or eleven or one or zero, they are two 0 or 1 (off or on) values combined into one registry value. Again I ask you to go into your registry and change the value from 10 to 11. That's one-zero to one-one, not ten to eleven, and in hexidecimal not decimal. Just try it! Remember the value so that if for some reason it doesn't work for you, you can just change it back and you will be no worse off, and then I will be clueless and you can have an I-told-you-so moment.

Also after changing that value, restart your computer to make the change come into effect.
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post #20 of 27
11/17/06 at 1:54am
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Sorry to tell you, but my lidbehavior entry is already set to hexadecimal 11.
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