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    Demand 64bit drivers from Dell!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by nekrosoft13, Mar 18, 2008.

  1. nekrosoft13

    nekrosoft13 Notebook Consultant

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    Please Vote,

    Who here depends better 64bit driver support from Dell?

    Dell sells notebook with 4gb of ram, but don't give people a choice to come with 64bit windows pre-installed. Plus 64bit drivers if released for some models are sometimes several versions behind.

    To receive WHQL certification for Vista drivers, companies are required by Microsoft to produce both 32bit and 64bit driver. But in few examples Dell decides not to release 64bit driver.
     
    nekrosoft13, Mar 18, 2008
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    Prasad NBR Reviewer 1337 NBR Reviewer

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    I don't need 64-bit support "from dell".... but I still vote for 64-bit, as it's the way of the future (with >3GB RAM support among others) ! :D
     
    Prasad, Mar 18, 2008
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  3. nekrosoft13

    nekrosoft13 Notebook Consultant

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    In few cases we do need dell; one example is Alps, which have to be one of the laziest companies when it comes to tech support, on their site I couldn't even find a trance of info about touchpads.

    Latest Alps 32bit driver was released by Dell In January 2008; latest 64bit driver was released by Dell on April 2007. There should never been such a long delay.

    Dates: are estimate, not in the mood to look up the dates.
     
    nekrosoft13, Mar 18, 2008
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    Good Point, they should get up to speed on this
     
    Snarl, Mar 18, 2008
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    timewalk Notebook Guru

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    Dell does not make the drivers for its components, you'd have to take the issue up with the component manufacturers for drivers...
     
    timewalk, Mar 18, 2008
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    Of course they don't, but they are the direct customer to the component manufacturers.

    Have you tried contacting some component manufacturers and asking them about drivers? There main response is "sorry we don't provide third party support, please contact your computer company"

    That the response you get with Alps, Atheros, Broadcom (for some drivers), nvidia (some drivers), ati/amd (mostly for mobile video drivers) etc...

    Bottom line is that Dell, and other computer manufactures need to push these lazy companies, and delivery what their customers need.
     
    nekrosoft13, Mar 18, 2008
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    NotebookYoozer Notebook Evangelist

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    wow, it's amazing how completely wrong you are on... well... just about everything
     
    NotebookYoozer, Mar 18, 2008
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  8. L.Rawlins

    L.Rawlins Notebook Evangelist

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    Just install your 32bit drivers twice.

    ...

    What?!... It could work. :p
     
    L.Rawlins, Mar 18, 2008
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  9. nekrosoft13

    nekrosoft13 Notebook Consultant

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    come on einstein, please tell me where am i wrong

    1) 4GB of memory
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605

    2)both 32 and 64bit are required to get WHQL certification
    http://www.10stripe.com/articles/windows-vista-and-driver-signing.php

    3) alps drivers latest 32bit from January2008 and latest 64bit from April2007

    4) Now go contact Atheros, Alps and get them to send a new latest driver.
    Find me 8600GT driver at nvidia site: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

    now where am I wrong Einstein.
     
    nekrosoft13, Mar 18, 2008
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  10. Samuel613

    Samuel613 Notebook Evangelist

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    laptopvideo2go.com had a 174.31 series nVidia driver that is WHQL native for my Delll M133O running Vista x64.

    I already provided a link in another thread to K-Byte's full package for the fingerprint reader - the only missing capability is password replacement in FireFox; IE's works and the rest of the package is functionally identical to x86.

    Personally, my biggest annoyance with x64 is lack of Java and flash in x64 native applications (I have to use x86 versions of firefox and IE to get those features).
     
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  11. nekrosoft13

    nekrosoft13 Notebook Consultant

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    I know you can get drivers for other locations, point of this thread is that should be done by Dell. Currently running 174.51 on my 1530.
     
    nekrosoft13, Mar 18, 2008
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    nekrosoft13, Mar 20, 2008
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