PC Ropear

If you are like me you have a laptop or a desktop that you can’t seem to install drivers on. I’ve been itching to use Nvidia’s CUDA. CUDA is using the GPU (graphics processing unit) to do calculations instead of the CPU. GPU’s have many more cores than a CPU to handle all of the video processing that needs to be done, Nvidia wanted to take advantage of that to do calculations such as Folding proteins using Folding@home. So a while back I downloaded the CUDA drivers and toolkit but when I went to install the drivers I got the error message “The Nvidia Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit.” I knew I had the right hardware, Quadro FX 570m, to run CUDA so I gave up until recently. More after the jump.

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