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    1640 driver updates...

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by tenknics, Feb 5, 2010.

  1. tenknics

    tenknics Notebook Evangelist

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    I don't personally use it but I noticed a new driver for the facial recognition software dated 2/4/2010 and it lists Win7 in the changes. So for those who used to use this and upgraded to Win7 to have it not work should be happy. Also noticed a bunch of hard drive updates I never noticed before, I know they are old, but they fix HDD clicking noises. Mine only makes noise while in use which I think is normal, but I remember people having a problem with it. Hopefully this fixed it. :)
     
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    Holy crap, my hard drive is a silent ninja now. It never really bothered me before as I thought it was normal, especially it being my first laptop.. I thought all noises were normal being in such close proximity to the actual spinning HDD. Wooow..can you hear that? silence..Makes me wonder what else needs fixing that I don't know about...First throttling now this..
     
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    how did u update hard drive drivers? i downloaded both drivers from Sata Drivers tab, but it won't update cuz it's 64 bit non compatible... BTW i don't know whick drivers to download from dell site, cuz it gives drivers for hardware which i don't have...
     
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    just burn the seagate firmware .iso to a CD, boot from it and that should flash your firmare without a prob. trust me its well worth the trouble!!!
     
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    what he said. the usb boot wouldnt work for me either, same reason you gave. Didn't have any cds, had to burn a dvd for less then 10mb..such a waste but my HDD is nice and quiet now :)
     
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    4evpoiuytrreq
     
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    don't know why, but it's not booting up. I burned .iso tried to boot it, but nothing is happening. I open CD and it's just a .txt file ...