I have a Dell D600 Lattitude laptop that was running Vista Home Prem.I usually do clean installs but I thought I would give the upgrade option from Vista to 7 a try. Anyways, the upgrade went really smooth. I realize that ATI doesnt support the 9000 series anymore. I was wondering since windows had a driver for the 9000 series for Vista, would it be possible to use that one? The only prob I am having is I cant seem to find the driver anywhere. (googled it etc...) Windows update catalog only lists XP/2000 drivers I dont think I could install the 9000 series driver in XP mode because of WDDM.
Laptop Specs:
Intel 1.6 GHZ
ATI Mobility 9000
2 GB RAM
Realtek onboard sound
Intel onboard wireless ( really surprised this works in 7!)
120 GB HDD
so i had mine working, did a reinstall of windows 7 and lost the driver now cant find it, anyone know what we used to get the sound working on the dell d600s?
I just installed Windows 7 on my Dell Latitude D505 and my screen resolution is terrible. I'm having trouble locating the right drivers on the Dell site and to tell you the truth, I don't even know what I need.
I've tried many different beta builds of Windows 7 on my Dell Latitude D610 including and up to build 7229, but they all have the same problem. Everything works great except for the video driver that is downloaded through Windows Update. The video card driver that is downloaded through Windows Udate is the "Mobile Intel(R) 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset Family". Once the driver is installed, and the laptop restarted, everything looks great at the native 1400x1050 resolution until I click on the Start button or fire up IE8. Then the entire screen washes out I can't read anything. It's hard to explain, but basically it looks like the contrast and brightness is turned all the way up and makes the laptop unusuable. I tried downloading the drivers from Dell's website, but they are for WinXP only and I didn't have any luck installing them. I also tried going to Intel's website and looking for a Win7 beta driver for my video chipset but didn't find any.
I've installed Win 7 a few days ago. I somehow installed the drivers such as wireless card, audio, etc. But I couldn't install the video driver, which was before ATI Radeon x300. I made a very deep search via web and Ati seems to not support some of their cards in Win7 and the solution is to download the driver's Vista x64 edition. I DID everything, billions of downloads, installations, everything I could do.. But I still don't have a video graphic card. Whenever I install some driver it seems to be installed right but nothing changes, even in Device Manager it is always shown as "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter"..In XP when I intall the driver, it automatically changes in Device Manager but now, nothing changes, nothing.
Whenever I try to install the video driver for the dell latitude e6400 off their site, i get "This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software." I have just reinstalled windows, this laptop is 4-5 years old and still works though.
I have installed the RC on a Dell Latittude D600 Laptop. Installation went smooth with the exception of driver hunts. The only upgrade I did was add a 1GB RAM (laptop has 2GB max).
I went to logon (out of hibernation mode) and laptop didn't boot. No BIOS, no HDD activity, just the green led power light was on. Thought I may have experienced a major hardware/motherboard malfunction. so i completely shut the laptop down and put it aside for a day or 2. Out of curiosity I booted it up today and it boot up totally.
Got the Bios screen, HDD activity all seemed ok. I did a complete shutdown and rebooted and BAM. didn't boot again!! Decided to take the battery out and rebooted. Amazingly, the laptop booted normally! Put the battery back in and wont boot normally.
This is my 2nd replacement battery bought directly from Dell in 1 yr. So, I am thinking I have a motherboard/power issue. BIOS sees the battery, but sometimes it charges and sometimes it doesn't.
So any ideas on how I can check any of the motherboard connections? laptop way past warranty lol. BIOS is updated to newest (A15) and memtest was ok.
