M6300 and windows 7 64bit = yes

Hey all,

After a 1st M6300 with a bad graphic card I replaced it with a locally (germany) sourced used one.

Its an M6300 with a T8300 2.4ghz and has the FX3600M with 512M

was originally installed with 4gb of ram but i now replaced the with 8gb of Corsair ram (ref : VS8GSDSKIT800D) . they are 800Mhz sticks but the motherboard runs them at 667 and not sure i can get them to go faster.

finally managed to get windows 7 home premium to run fine of a Crucial M4 128gb hard disk

only issue was with the dam wireless card : Interl (R) PRO Wireless 3945ABG

no way to get the thing runing with Vista 64bit or windows 7 64bit drivers.
the fix in the end is to take the XP 64bit driver. run the software to unpack it. You will get an error saying the software is not comaptible with your system. then go into the device manager and manually point to the directory for the xp 64 bit driver and voila it works (for me at least)

so to recap for those interested

Dell precision M6300 with :

windows 7 64 bits = yes
Corsair 8gb DDR2 800mhz = yes but running at 667MHZ and need a 64bit system to see the 8gb of course
Crucial M4 SSD 128gb = yes

hope that helps
vincent