Windows 7 on Latitude E6400

thanks. win 7 installs my ricoh driver for me, so that definitely isnt the unknown device.

on an unrelated note, anyone else noticing that win7 runs cooler than vista?

on another unrelated note, is there any command-line way to switch themes? I really want to be able to set up a command line switch to disable aero when not on AC.

 

Yes. It runs cooler for me as well. I think since I installed 7 I've only had the fan go to high speed a handful of times. It's very rare to see high speed fan now.

Greg

 

Guys, I got a question concerning Aero. It isn't really running smooth. I had the WDDM Nvidia and the 185.20 driver installed. In both cases, animations are a bit jerky.
Am I the only one with this problem?

 

I've found a really annoying issue...I've got an M2400 w/ Win7 64bit, and when I put it to sleep and wake it up, most HD I/O fails. For instance, I can open explorer and see any folders that I opened before I went to sleep, but if I click on a folder I haven't viewed since the last reboot, the IO never completes--it just does the green progress bar and pauses at the end. This is reproducible with Hibernation as well. I've tried hybrid sleep (on/off) with no difference. I turned off/on USB selective suspend with no difference. I've updated the drivers for the storage controller with no difference.

As far as I know, there's no way to view a harddrive's state in Windows (think "hdparm" for linux), so I can't even tell if it is an issue of the drive not powering on, or some sort of driver error. For now, I just have to shutdown the computer every time (which is annoying), but I'm hoping to find the issue soon...

 

I just discovered that my DVD-drive isn't recognised anymore. In the device manager, it's installed as 'HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM DU10N'. This is a standard Microsoft driver.
Removing the drive physically it really says model number DU10N though. Uninstalling the driver did nothing. When removing and inserting the drive again, it is found, but the standard driver will be installed again and it does not appear in Windows Explorer.
Any ideas?

 

i am not having this issue at all. the 185.20 driver will NOT run aero on win7, as it is not WDDM 1.1

 

not having the problem, but then i have the PLDS DU-8A2S. which dvd drive is that?

 

i think you can actually check that using windows power events monitor, which comes with hdparm that runs on windows http://sourceforge.net/projects/windowspowereve/ . i have had a similar problem, but i hadn't noticed it happens reproducibly. I will try how it is happening to you tomorrow, but the problem seems to have gone away for me.

 

So which driver version are you running?

 

Btw, I had the same problem. I deactivated write caching and it went up to 5.7. Today I simply activated it again and suddenly it went up to 5.8.