NVIDIA CUDA on my T61 ! please help

[Celestyn]

is there any possible way to run NVIDIA CUDA on my T61 with NVS Quadro 140M ?

i have win XP

thanks

[beGi]

Well it could be done, you have beta drivers available on nvidia website... A week ago nvidia announced that CUDA drivers for notebooks are now available for series 8 & 9 (and 140M is 8-based).

[Celestyn]

Well it could be done, you have beta drivers available on nvidia website... A week ago nvidia announced that CUDA drivers for notebooks are now available for series 8 & 9 (and 140M is 8-based).

when i try to install (180.60_CUDA_XP_beta)

i receive a message "The NVIDIA Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit."

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[beGi]

I haven't tried it yet, but thinkwiki says it's possible (not sure for XP):

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/NVidia_Quadro_NVS_140m

Also, maybe you should try with these drivers:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro_nvs ... _beta.html


NOTE: You should be very careful with installation of these drivers, I think you should wait few weeks for better support, and Lenovo's certified version (i guess that depends if you're in a hurry). On the second provided link there is note that these drivers are not yet supported on Thinkpads. Be sure to back up your unit if you're really going to try it...

[HomerD]

You can absolutely enable CUDA on T61.

Try the notebook developer driver here. It worked for me.

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda ... loads.html

[geohsia]

I tried the latest and according to my software package CUDA was being used. After a few weeks I lost color. My screen went black and white. Reverting to Lenovo drivers fixed things.

Here's the weird part. I am a photographer with Canon 5D2 and bought a software package to help me play h.264 files smoothly. Well, using CUDA it plays ok with a few hickups here and there. With the Lenovo drivers that don't enable CUDA I think I get better playback. Strange. Anyways, I have a support call into Nvidia and will see if I can get the software to work properly.