GeForce MX130 on XP

[flameI]

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I need some help, please!

I'm looking for a laptop for college and light gaming use, and recently, found out that a DELL Inspiron 15 5584 (didn't ordered yet though) with a MX130 GPU card would fit my needs, and found out too that MX130 is a Maxwell-based card (first generation though, just like GTX 750 Ti), so theoretically, it could work under Windows XP (on which I hope so). So, I have downloaded "368.81-desktop-winxp-32bit-international.exe" graphics driver and extracted its files, and then, edited nvdmi.inf (which has DELL's OEM graphics cards) where it lists Geforce 840M and Geforce 940MX (both based on the same chip, which is GM108S). And 940MX is the closest to MX130, since it also has tha same chip variant as MX130, N16S-GTR-S-A2.

So, my question is: Would I get MX130 to work under Windows XP using the same SectionID from DELL'S OEM driver, 019, as 940MX does? I'll upload the print the seller sent to me. (use this link if resolution is too low due to its compression: https://imgur.com/UWIBD7E)

[Mark-XP]

Hello @flameI, prior to answering your question let me please put one at you: Are you aware that this model has an 8th gen CPU, and it's got official support by Dell for Win 10/11 only?

That said, i would like to confirm that imo there should be a certain probabilty that a tweak of the 368.81 (XP) driver will allow it to handle the MX130 gpu, since it's Maxwell based as you wrote above.

I recently got to work a GT710 with an older driver under XP by editing the .inf (link), however, the difference is: that model had official XP support by Nvidia, in contrary to the MX130 which hasn't.

Edited March 11, 2023 by Mark-XP

[flameI]

On 3/11/2023 at 9:27 AM, Mark-XP said:

Hello @flameI, prior to answering your question let me please put one at you: Are you aware that this model has an 8th gen CPU, and it's got official support by Dell for Win 10/11 only?

That said, i would like to confirm that imo there should be a certain probabilty that a tweak of the 368.81 (XP) driver will allow it to handle the MX130 gpu, since it's Maxwell based as you wrote above.

I recently got to work a GT710 with an older driver under XP by editing the .inf (link), however, the difference is: that model had official XP support by Nvidia, in contrary to the MX130 which hasn't.

Thanks for your answer!

Yes, I'm aware that 8th gen is Windows 10+, but with backported generic drivers from Windows 8 + Legacy Boot support (DELL is one of the few companies that still support Legacy Boot in BIOS settings) it would work.

So, about the MX130... I found this comment on Quora: "The MX130 is essentially the same 940MX (ie, the same old GM108 Maxwell chip) renamed to fit the naming convention of the current mainstream GPU linup, alongside the MX110 (renamed 920MX)".  Do you think it would work as same as GTX 970, 980, 980 Ti and Titan XP did after inf modding? (since they also didn't support Windows XP) I mean, someone managed to find the correct SectionIDs for those cards, even though GTX 960 (which is the last card supporting Windows XP officially) had GM206 as its chip, and the inf modder managed to get GM204 (GTX 970 and GTX 980) and GM200 (GTX 980 Ti and GTX TITAN X) working under Windows XP. But we're talking about the same chip (GM108) in this case!

Maybe it would worth the risk...

Edited March 13, 2023 by flameI

[Mark-XP]

1 hour ago, flameI said:

... I mean, someone managed to find the correct SectionIDs for those cards, even though GTX 960 (which is the last card supporting Windows XP officially) had GM206 as its chip, and the inf modder managed to get GM204 (GTX 970 and GTX 980) and GM200 (GTX 980 Ti and GTX TITAN X) working under Windows XP. But we're talking about the same chip (GM108) in this case!

Maybe it would worth the risk...

Yes, thats's exactly why i think the GM108 based MX130 should run (after extension of .inf)... and btw: no risk no fun

Edited March 14, 2023 by Mark-XP