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    M860TU on windows 7- drivers not working

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by aceofspades1217, Apr 19, 2009.

  1. aceofspades1217

    aceofspades1217 Notebook Geek

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    I just got a NP8662 without an OS and, after reading many threads of people running windows 7 x64 on the m860tu and having ran it myself on my desktop, decided to install it.

    I was also under the impression that all of the vista drivers worked with windows 7 and that windows 7 was hardware compatible with vista.

    When I installed it none of my drivers worked at all. I couldn't get the videocard driver, the internet drivers, the cam driver, or the hotkey driver working. They all kept giving errors related to not being compatible with the OS.

    Not quite sure what is wrong, considering that people often say that they run windows 7 on the m860tu.

    I just installed windows vista x64 and I'll upgrade it when the drivers get worked out.
     
    aceofspades1217, Apr 19, 2009
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    the drivers do work.... you just dont use the executables when installing the drivers.

    rather, you extract the drivers and point the Device Manager to the location of the extracted drivers.
     
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  3. aceofspades1217

    aceofspades1217 Notebook Geek

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    ah thanks, and that will work with ALL of the drivers?
     
    aceofspades1217, Apr 19, 2009
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    Thats what I did... for both desktop and notebook when working with Win7
     
    Gophn, Apr 19, 2009
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    Ok thanks I'll try that.
     
    aceofspades1217, Apr 19, 2009
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