I'm a bit confused here.
I have been using beta Geforce drivers for over a year on Vista Home Premium
X64. I have received warnings on the betas that the source cannot be
verified, but I was able to choose to install the drivers. I believe that
they were signed, although they were not WHQL blessed. The current drivers I
have in place are betas (175.80) that were leaked through the website of an
nVidia partner.
I think I've only seen one driver in the past year that was unsigned, and
that was associated with a utility that may have been a hack.
Apparently beta and unsigned are not equivalent.
Perhaps some MVP can shed light on this. I can't explain the OPs problem; I
have not shared it.
Return address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.
"Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Yes, F8 is required for each boot-up until the drivers are replaced with
> signed drivers or removed from the system.
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> "Mirey86" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
> news:b78bb9c354889b8579d385184e01d6e1@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Quote:
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>> I'm using Vista Business 64 bit and I noticed I cannot install beta
>> Nvidia video card drivers...after doing some Googling apparently 64 bit
>> versions of vista do not allow you to use beta drivers that don't have
>> digitally signed signatures...there is apparently a work around in which
>> you can hit the F8 key on bootup and choose the option to 'Disable
>> Driver Signature Enforcement'
>>
>> but this only works for the current boot session...I tried this method
>> and it still did not work every time...do I need to go into F8 every
>> time I boot my system up with the beta drivers or only the first time I
>> install the beta drivers?
>>
>> makes it a real pain to install beta drivers in Vista
>>
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>> Mirey86
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