I have a Dell Inspiron 8500 with a GeForce4 4200 Go 64MB RAM and I have always used the drivers for it from the Dell website however I just got Half Life 2 and it says my drivers are old. Just checked on the Dell website and they are from 2003 which I agree is pretty old.

What I want to know is can i download the latest drivers from nvidia.com and use them? Is there anything special about the Dell drivers or do they just package up the normal drivers in a Dell installer to make everything the same?

Most likely need a modded inf try www.guru3d.com

the 56.77 drivers for the quadro cards are the newest drivers from nVidia that will work with the 'Go' chipsets...

ftp://download.nvidia.com/Windows/Quadro_....77_win2kxp.exe

you won't be disapointed.. if you've been stuck with those old school drivers from dells webpage...

try http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/

it has the most recent drivers with modified infs to update your nvidia go card driver. there are instructions how to use the modified inf etc to install them.