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    Chipset drivers for Win7

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by marmaduke, Oct 27, 2009.

  1. marmaduke

    marmaduke Notebook Geek

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    I asked this once before when the RC was available on another forum. Now that Win7 is out and some people have already installed it and know what their doing...let me ask again.

    Do you need chipset drivers for Win7? Previously, I was told no. I have a NP2096 I'd like to bump up to Win7. I also have and old Dell Inspiron that has Win7 RC1 on it. I never did install the chipset drivers for that one. But it seems to work fine.

    Any comments?
     
    marmaduke, Oct 27, 2009
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  2. brownstonemr

    brownstonemr Notebook Consultant

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    Just recently installed Win7 on my M570TU and all the chipset drivers installed with it were dated from 2006. Worked fine so I don't think its necessary but since Sager had put up new chipset drivers for win7 I chose to install them.

    However usually when ever I run the chipset driver setup they say they have finished installing but never do if you check the driver dates in device manager.

    So I went into device manager and anything that had 'mobile intel' or 'intel' next to the name I just updated manually. Looked under 'IDE ATA Controller', 'System Devices' and 'Universal Bus Controllers'. Just right-clicked/update driver/browse my computer and selected new chipset folder for each thing.

    So at least a lot of drivers show dates from 08-09 now.
     
    brownstonemr, Oct 27, 2009
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  3. teq9er

    teq9er Notebook Geek

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    I have a NP8660 and was wondering about this myself. I actually downloaded the chipset drivers from Intel's website rather than Sager's and the installation went really quick. Too quick to actually install anything in my opinion. I checked the registry and it shows "success" and the infinst folder contained the latest readme file from the driver, but other than that I don't think anything was actually installed.
     
    teq9er, Oct 29, 2009
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  4. theriko

    theriko Ronin

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    To force all intel drivers to install, run the installer from the command line with the -OVERALL command ie "C:\Downloads\infinst911_autol.exe -overall"
     
    theriko, Oct 29, 2009
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    gl1tch Notebook Guru

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    When i try to execute the the 965 chipset driversfor my p965 board (d901c) i always get the error "Your computer does not have the minium requirements for this driver"

    Should i use that -overall command to install them?
     
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  6. brownstonemr

    brownstonemr Notebook Consultant

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    I had already ran the installer but later on I started getting that message when I tried to run it again cause things were not updating. You can try the -overall command but it may not work now that you are getting that message.

    If it doesn't then maybe tried what I mentioned above and do the update for each thing manually.
     
    brownstonemr, Oct 29, 2009
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