Update 7 November 2009
Specification of the notebook:
CPU: IntelĀ® PentiumĀ® Dual-Core Mobile Processor T4200
RAM: DDR2 800MHz 1024MB
VGA: nVIDIA GeForce G 103M 512MB (dedicated)
HDD: 250GB 5400rpm
Complete spec see HERE

Performance Review
1. 3DMarks 2005 : 3940 | CPUMarks 2005 : 9704
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Categories: Computer, IT Article Tags: 3dmarks, cpumarks, CQ40, CQ40-419TX, graphic performance, HP Compaq, laptop, notebook, performance, Presario, review, specification, temperature, windows experience index
nVidia GeForce G 103M ussually used in notebook for the VGA adapter. Recently I had problem when install it in Windows 7 for my laptop, HP Compaq Presario CQ40-419TX. nVidia has provide the driver in their website [download here], but the driver couldn’t be installed in Windows 7. Windows only want to use default Windows VGA driver instead from nVidia. After doing some experiment, I got the solution.
Download the driver, run the file, 186.03_notebook_win7_32bit_international_whql.exe. If you click it, it will extract firstly to the drive, usually in C:\NVIDIA. Don’t continue the installation, it won’t work since it will only install the HD Audio driver, not the VGA driver. We only need the extracted files.
How To:
1. Open Device Manager -> Display Adapters -> right click on Standard VGA Adapter -> Update Driver Software…
2. Browse my computer for driver software -> Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer
3. Click on Have Disk… button.
4. Browse in C:\NVIDIA\DisplayDriver\186.03\International\Displ ay\nvaa.inf
5. Select G 103M. OK.
Now you can experience the aero / 3D flip effect ^^

And for the audio driver, I only use from Windows default, since the driver from HP (for Vista) didn’t work.
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