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    Clevo D9T running Windows 7 Ultimate

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by coromonadalix, Dec 19, 2013.

  1. coromonadalix

    coromonadalix Newbie

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    Hello

    Whanted to share this

    I was able torevive my old laptop and get rid of the problematic promise 378 Raid "no drivers" for Win 7. I have the last version of the motherboard with sata ports for the cd-rom drives.

    You buy at Ebay a slim cd-rom to sata hdd converter, and put it on the top cd-rom / dvd hole, and you put the slim cd-rom / dvd in the bottom. That way the hdd will be seen from the Intel chipset.

    The pc is running fine, Alienware licensed ... Only the bison camera and the front buttons near the clock aren't working. Had to tweak an .inf for my gtx7950 and the mini-pci gigabyte wan to be seen in Win7. It even had the tv-tunner card in it ( removed )

    Downgraded the 3.4g cpu for a 3.2g, saving a few watts of thermal dissipation.

    The only downside is the Promise raid adapter wanting to find a drive ... don't load the bios and boot normally after that. I even put an Intel SSD 320 series and it boots really well.

    The sound is great. The screen is very good.

    This laptop was specially paint and customized ...

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    coromonadalix, Dec 19, 2013
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  2. b0b1man

    b0b1man Notebook Deity

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    A real "vintage" beast machine :D
    Would love to play Half-Life 2 and CS: Source on it :D

    Congratulations on making the RAID work! :thumbsup:
     
    b0b1man, Dec 20, 2013
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  3. Meaker@Sager

    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    Another solution to the driver issue is to create a custom OS install with the extra drivers added.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Dec 20, 2013
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