win7 drivers for sager computers?

I want to do a clean installation of windows 7 64 bit over my windows vista 64 bit. However I'm worried that there might not be compatible drivers for windows 7. My sager np2096 has a webcam, fingerprint sensor, and WOW buttons and I'm mainly worried about drivers for those.

I know that drivers can run in compatibility mode but I also heard that that slows things down a lot in windows 7 when drivers run in compatibility mode.

Any help is appreciated.

 

I just installed win 7 professional, all the drivers auto installed except for the webcam and I think the fingerprint sensor (although that may have installed too but I never use it). You can get them at the sager site and it works fine though so don't worry.

Only thing I am working on in enabling AHCI. If you have any advice for that let me know.
Thanks - currenlty its disabled and I want to avoid BSOD / reinstalling the OS.

 

Although now on second thought I am not so sure....best get a second opinion.

I need drivers for my ethernet ports? Wireless (although wireless is working now so maybe not?) and card readers? I just don't know...

 

So you have everything except for fingerprint, webcam, and ethernet port?

My laptop doesn't have a card reader so I'm not worried about that but the ethernet I must have. The webcam and fingerprint are nice to have.

 

Me?

Ethernet was installed automatically by Windows update, as was fingerprint....
Webcam I installed, I am getting an error though "Registry key not found" whenever I launch it - I am working on that........

Card readers, I think I am missing those too but I am not sure, they aren't very important to me anyway so at least for the time being I am going to ignore that.

 

Hey guys i'm getting my sager 8662 without a Os in october. Should i wait for Windows 7 64 bit?

 

yah its awesome.

 

The vista drivers should work with Win7. Just make sure you get the 64 bit version if available. If some of the drivers dont install by running its .exe, then you have to manually update the piece of hardware by going to device manager, update driver, manual, choose location*put location of folder of driver here*.

I was able to install Win7 on my Dell d600....from 2004. I installed ALL my drivers, half from windows, the other half from manually updating them using Winxp versions of the driver. So don't worry about not having all your drivers installed. Surprisingly, Win7 ran quite smoothly on a 1.4ghz pentium m, 1gb ram, 32mb vram laptop.

 

but won't using older versions of drivers from previous OS's slow things down? That's what I heard. I heard that using a driver from an older OS makes things slower than if the driver was specifically made for win7. Is this true?

 

You heard misinformation. Windows 7 has a high degree of compatibility with Vista drivers. If a device would get some benefit from Windows 7-specific drivers, there would *be* Windows 7-specific drivers for it. Otherwise, you don't have much of a choice but to use the Vista drivers.

I would not hold my breath for Windows 7-specific drivers for things like the webcams and fingerprint readers. These companies released half-baked functional Vista drivers back in the day, and if those drivers work with Windows 7 at all, it's what we're going to be using. Or you install no driver, and don't use that device.

 

I too installed Win7 RC build7100 32bit on my Dell D620 (2gb mem) and also a D600 (1gb mem). It actually runs pretty smooth.

 

hmmm well either way I plan on installing win7. my vista just crashes way too often. the other day I was chatting on AIM and i got a random BSOD that appeared for 1 second and my computer restarted for no apparent reason.

 

so can I just use the drivers windows installs or is it recommended that I search out a win7 version of each driver?

 

Just use the most updated drivers you can find, doesnt matter if its win7 or vista, as long as its the most recent.

Its better to use drivers from your manufacturer...but if you dont have any that work, then just use windows defaults. For the display though, you have to use manufacturers drivers bc the defaults suck at gaming.