I believe that the statement that "All beta drivers will be unsigned drivers
as well" is not true.
Let me be clear that I've tried many beta nVidia drivers in the past year
under Vista X64, and Vista has never refused to load any of them. I have
never needed to suppress the security feature that prevents the use of
unsigned drivers with nVidia beta Geforce drivers. That leads me to believe
that they can't be unsigned.
"Nonny" <nonnymoose@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:b3l844h6ke4jgvj718erd9t8a8am3o24fj@xxxxxx
Quote:
> On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 16:05:55 -0400, "Bob Knowlden" <nkbob@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
> Quote:
>>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.
>
> True.
>
> Beta means that the driver isn't at the final release point and is
> only for testing. All beta drivers will be unsigned drivers as well.
>
> Unsigned means it's not designed for the operating system in
> question... i.e., it doesn't pass all of MS's tests.
>
> Not all unsigned drivers are beta drivers.
> Quote:
>>
>>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
>>news:unfokVJxIHA.3860@xxxxxx Quote:
>>> 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...
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Mirey86
>>>>
>>>>
>>> >