Ashihtaka

Hey guys, just want to make sure - is this laptop compatibility list exhaustive?

http://forum.techinferno.com/diy-e-gpu-projects/4109-egpu-candidate-system-list.html#3rd

Or will I be able to run my PE4C-EC100C V2.1 using Express Card on my Sony Vaio VPCF120FD?

It has an i5-430m and a Geforce 310m.

I downloaded the .exe driver which was "344.75-desktop-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-international-whql".

After it installed, the GTX 760 was recognized by my PC as a gtx 760 (which made me very excited).

I restarted the computer, however it got BSOD when the egpu was plugged in, with the following error:

[ATTACH=CONFIG]13314[/ATTACH]

I took out the egpu, but it wouldn't load windows and started windows automatic repair.

So I had to "repair" by going back to an earlier point when the driver wasn't installed.

I think the .exe might have installed incompatible components, or removed some important files.

How should I proceed? Is there any way to download JUST the 760 driver and install manually through device driver? (I couldn't find a driver that wasn't an executable file online).

Any advice on this guys?

You need download and install the GTX760 Win8.1 driver from NVidia's website: Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers

Enabling your dormant iGPU to extract more eGPU performance

Your system has a i5-430M with a dormant Intel HD iGPU, a non-switchable GT310M dGPU and is running Windows 8.1. This combination has some higher performance potential with a bit of tweaking.

Consider, enabling the dormant iGPU like was done at http://forum.techinferno.com/implementation-guides/6792-%5Bguide%5D-15-acer-aspire-5742g-gtx660ti%402gbps-c-mpcie1-pe4c-1-2-win8-1-a.html#post92801, the NVidia driver enables x1 pci-e compression (x1.Opt or 2Gbps+c) that accelerates mostly DX9 apps anywhere from 30-300%.

Thank you very much for the detailed post Nando. I was hoping you would be able to help me with this.

Regarding the driver download - this is downloaded as an exe. Should I run the exe file instead of manually installing a driver under device manager? I don't know if this will conflict with my gt310m driver.

UPDATE: I downloaded the .exe driver which was "344.75-desktop-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-international-whql".

After it installed, the GTX 760 was recognized by my PC as a gtx 760 (which made me very excited).

I restarted the computer, however it got BSOD when the egpu was plugged in, with the following error:

I took out the egpu, but it wouldn't load windows and started windows automatic repair.

So I had to "repair" by going back to an earlier point when the driver wasn't installed.

I think the .exe might have installed incompatible components, or removed some important files.

How should I proceed? Is there any way to download JUST the 760 driver and install manually through device driver? (I couldn't find a driver that wasn't an executable file online).

Hey guys, I feel like I'm so close to getting this egpu to work. I just need some assistance.

I got this GTX 760 to be recognized by my Sony VPCF120FD. I'm using a PE4C 2.1b with expresscard.

The GTX 760 shows up on my device manager as "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter".

I tried to update the driver, but it gave the this error message after downloading and trying to install:

Also, here is what I see on GPU-Z

As you can see, my gtx 760 shows up as another gt 310m (my dgpu). I'm running Windows 8.1 64 bit. My laptop also has an i5-430m CPU, 2x4gb 1066 ram.

Can anyone tell me what to do about this driver installation error? I used the "let windows search online" option to download the driver. Couldn't find a physical gtx 760 driver file to manually update.

Is this an OS problem (should I switch to windows 7) or can I do something about it?

Hey all, I was wondering if an Expresscard PE4L 2.1b would be compatible with my sony Vaio VPCF120FD?

It's got an expresscard slot, pm55 chipset with intel core i5 430m CPU. Also has a nvidia 310m dgpu.