Windows 7 on 1537

I installed Windows 7 RC on my 1537 recently. Everything seems to working fine except two minor issues:
1 - The Wifi locator button does not work any more.
2 - The screen overlay when I press mute, volume up, and volume down no longer appears on the screen.

Does anyone else have these issues with their Win7 installation?
Also, can anyone tell me the names of the programs use in Vista for these two features?
Thank you in advance.

 

You need to install QuickSet. It should get the Wifi Catcher and media buttons working.

 

Bog, thanks. I installed quickset (downloaded from Dell) and the wifi locator is working now. However, the volume screen overlay is still not here. Is there some setting I need to make to enable screen overlay?
thanks.

 

I think that's just an inherent issue between QuickSet and Windows 7. I have the release candidate on my Studio 1535, and even with QuickSet installed, the volume overlay does not appear. The actual volume control function works, if you look at the Windows volume meter.

 

Well, I just attempted to install Windows 7 on my 1537: ...fail.

It just sits at Expanding Files, 0%. The DVD continues to spin, and I can feel the HDD being accessed, but nothing.

Those that have gotten it to work on the 1537, did you have to do anything special? Jump through any specific hoops?

They call this a "Release Candidate" huh?

Ciao...
--Eric

 

How long did you wait? For me it took 8 minutes before the expanding files percentage changed.

 

I gave it a good 15-20 minutes the first time, and it still never changed.

Then I changed the HDD access type from AHCI to IDE... gave it 10 minutes, still the same thing.

Back to AHCI...

Finally, found the SATA chipset driver from the Intel website, and forced Win7 to use that... Took about 5 minutes, but it finally changed from 0% to 1%... and then quickly finished after that.

So, it's installed now. Vista installed no problem without having to give it a driver during install, so not sure why I had to give Win7 one to make it work. :shrugs: Ohwell, it works now so I guess thats all that matters. Not like I'm really going to be using it anyway, just wanna get some experience with it and "play".

1.5 months away from my anniversary of switching to Linux...

Thx!
--Eric

 

I have installed windows 7 32 bit andnow the intergrated web camrea is not working can someone help. DELL Studio 1537

 

Trust me I will not be chaning a single thing on my 1737 running Vista SP1 64-bit Edition.


Maybe eventually after Windows 7 SP1 is released and DELL has updated its 1737 Drivers.


Why look for problems and changes when everything is working flawlessly.

 

So, just ran across an oddity win Win7 on my 1537. Normally, Win7 sleeps/suspends/hibernates no problem whatsoever. Wakes up just fine too. In fact, Win7 is super fast on sleeping/waking up from sleep, very impressive.

However, I was using my external monitor the other day, with the desktop spanned across both the laptop LCD and the external... put it to sleep (which went fine), but when I woke it up, all I had was a black screen with the password box.

Odd, I thought, but didnt put 2+2 together yet, wasn't sure what would have caused that. Next time I slept/woke it up, I had the full login screen, but when I got to the desktop, none of my icons were there. The text below the icon was there, but no icon itself. If I rolled my mouse over them, the icon would show up then disappear again. Same thing went for my icons on my task bar/start menu.

This happened a few more times over the next day or two, and thats when I finally realized it started happening when the external LCD was connected. So I disconnected it, rebooted, and put the machine to sleep. Sure enough, it woke up fine, no "graphical" issues -- and has been fine every single time I've slept it since then.

Just wondered if anyone had seen anything of the sort (or could reproduce it)... and had any suggestions? I don't use the external monitor often, so its not a huge deal, I just have to remember to tell Win7 to not use the external before putting it to sleep and all will be fine. Other than that, I'm pretty impressed with Win7 actually, and thats coming from someone who has used Linux for the past 11 months exclusively.

BTW, this is a Studio 1537 with integrated Intel 4500MHD graphics -- using the default Intel graphics driver supplied by Intel/Microsoft. It also might be important to mention, the external monitor is connected via VGA (not HDMI).

Ciao!
--Eric

 

Disappearing icons after a sleep resume + dual displays = probably a driver problem. Do you have the mobile ATI 3450 GPU? If so, confirm you're using the correct drivers from ATI. I haven't played with Windows 7 for a while. Though back when I used it, Catalyst 8.12 was the "Windows 7 Driver Preview Package" for Radeon GPUs.

 

No as I mentioned I have the integrated Intel 4500MHD graphics chipset. I was not able to find any specific drivers for Windows 7 on the Intel site at the moment. Their "update check" utility finds my graphics card, but then tells me I'm using an unsupported OS and to bugger off ha ha The driver I'm using is from Intel via Windows Update and is from 5/6/09, so its a recent driver. No bigs, I figured it was a driver problem and I'm sure it'll probably work itself out eventually.

Ciao
--Eric

 

Just download the Vista driver from Intel; it should be fully compatible with Windows 7. Just make sure to match 64-bit with 64-bit, or 32 with 32.

 

Use Vista driver from Dell site.