Windows 7 on Latitude E6400

There was a spam post. Which has been deleted by admin now.

 

Vista finally exploded for the last time on me so I installed W7 RC1 (7100) on this E6400.

I got things functioning pretty well so far.

Now it turns out that a lot of the crashes in Vista were due to bad interaction between a USB driver (therefore Microsoft's problem, according to the Dell engineer I chatted with for a few hours Sunday night). We don't know if the same issues will occur in W7, but so far, no BSODs.

 

good times -- id just seen you do it on this and the e6400 owners forum lounge, and the above post didn't seem to be bad (i guess that is because it was deleted) -- I am used to there being a post remaining that says [deleted by administrator] or whatever. lol, anyway...

 

has anyone had consistent crashing problems, especially when using media, like youtube and skype. I can't install the video drivers from intel on W 7. I am afraid is either an audio or video driver problem.

 

did you try installing the drivers in compatibility mode ?

 

I have been able to install the intel driver without a problem here. It is from Microsoft:

Mobile Intel(R) 45 Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - Prerelease 1.1)

 

I've been running Windows 7 (64 bit - build 7100) here for a few days, which has been a very good improvement over Vista 64. Only one quibble - sometimes when the machine awakens from sleep, it waits for a while and anything related to the network connection is unresponsive for a time ranging from maybe 20 seconds to a minute. Other than that - Windows 7 is a great stability improvement over Vista 64. Like night and day.

 

yes I did. maybe I am not downloading the right ones from dell's website?

 

i don't have this issue. what wireless card? dell or intel? and what drivers are you using?

 

Would the backlit keyboard work fine in Win7? I'm not sure if that's something that requires a driver, but I'm thinking of installing Win7 on an E6400.