Dell Latitude D430 upgrade to Win 7

Hi all,
I recently tried to do a clean install of Win 7 from XP professional on my Latitude D430. According to the Dell website, the D430 is upgradeable to Win 7, so after carefully reading and following all the instructions I found on the Microsoft website, I did a clean install. Everything worked fine except for that the wireless Intel driver I downloaded (vista Version) won't work with internet explorer. I spent an hour with the Dell technical support and was sadly disappointed the tech could not make it work. I have temporarily re-installed xp but would love to find a solution. I'v read in both this site and others that the Latitude D430 runs fine with Win 7.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks

 

Well...
1) find the Win7 driver?
(Manufacturer site could be difficult in your case)
2) Connect to the internet via Lan (Ethernet) - either at the router or with a secondary computer and let Windows Update find a driver.
(had to do that on one of my old laptops - I think Win7 carries fewer drivers compared to Vista... so you need the internet to find them all...)

 

Hi DetlevCM,
Thanks for your reply.
Not sure where to look for win7 drivers other than Dell. They don't have one and suggested I use the vista drivers but that did not work. I was able to connect to the internet via a wire. I can't find the post, but I did see one on this site of someone that is running win7 on their D430 + someone is selling a D430 rinning win 7 on ebay so the drivers must be out there I just don't know where.

 

Just did some googling... and nothing conclusive... for another Dell the recommendation was to use the Win7 drivers...

The fact that its being sold on Ebay doesn't mean anything.
Does it say whether the laptop cleans the house too?

It might be an idea to find the NBR user who has one.

 

what wifi card is installed? is it a dell 1490?

 

DetLevCM
You are right... it also mows the lawn.
Unfortunately, Dell doesn't have win7 drivers for the D430 for the wireless wifi which is why we tried the Vista drivers. The support tech said that they might make them available but didn't know when.....oh well!

 

Hi goofball,
the wifi card from dell was incompabible with the win7 upgrade. Tried an intel and it didn't even recognize it.

 

I believe they Dell uses a "special" thinner card...

 

You could try connecting the laptop to the internet via an ethernet connection and letting Windows Update automatically install any drivers.