How many devices did Windows 7 NOT have drivers for on your install?

Flextronic Arima--all devices present and accounted for after Windows Update.

I did, however, install the Vista 64 synaptic drivers. First, the touchpad is installed as a "mouse" so the touchpad scroll function does not work, and second, with the default Windows drivers the touchpad is so sensitive that typing hard makes the mouse cursor jump around.

 

Windows 7 did not install drivers for my touchpad, wireless, display, audio, or intel matrix storage upon first boot. Activating Windows Update, the display and wireless drivers were installed. Touchpad and audio drivers had to be installed manually. I have no reason to go searching for Intel Matrix Storage drivers, so those remain uninstalled. I do not believe my hotkeys are functional yet, either.

 

Same for me with the synaptics touchpad/mouse.
The only real thing not detected was my card reader.
But I installed my audio and Intel Matrix blah and graphics drivers anyways.

 

EVERYTHING
Those "incompatibilities" are resolved by running drivers install in Vista Mode.

 

addendum to my first post: While Windows installed my sound drivers, it installed generic microsoft driver with a very low volume level. Had to go to the Realtek website to get the Windows 7 drivers to make the audio audible

 

None, but that's in large part because I did an in-place upgrade. :3

 

Assuming that they're the Realtek HD Audio drivers, did the R2.29 version work for you? When I first tried to install the version, I receied a BSOD, and subsequent attempts failed. I had to install R2.27.

 

All I had to install were the touchpad drivers and flash memory reader

 

Yes, r2.29 worked just fine for me....

 

None here. WU found drivers for everything and they're all working flawlessly. It is a very new system though so this should be expected.

 

Are the drivers provided by windows update the newest out there ? Or im going to need to update the drivers after windows installs them for me ? (sorry for the off topic but saying how many drivers win7 missed in virtualbox is a bit irrelevant )

 

I noticed most of the drivers from WU were tagged with a late July 2009 release, one was even in August. It'll depend but for me most were very new.

 

No drivers needed so far for my first desktop. Curious about my IdeaPad U330 since there were zero drivers during beta and RC.

 

All I needed were the Asus hotkey drivers + support software, Logitech drivers, and Realtek drivers.

 

yer none for me yet. but in the beta i had to install all of them... (im talking about the rc though)

 

a lot of hp printer stuff doesnt work. the driver will install but the ocr software and the photosmart essential doesnt start. ive seen this with a few customers already that wanted to run windows 7.. they are simply running it on the 30day until they get there discs in...

 

I was amazed that my Soundblaster Live! 5.1 PCI soundcard did not have drivers for it, even after running Windows Update. Creatives site is a total joke that only lists their newest cards, so I'm guessing this might be a lost cause.

 

Unfortunately it is. I have the same card on an old Dell running 7 and Creative didn't even bother making Vista drivers for it. What I had to do was to extract their XP drivers and force-install them in 7 which works for basic sound but the drivers themselves created conflicts especially with Power Management; waking up from sleep and losing sound about 50% of the time.

Creative is known for prematurely stopping support for their non-brand-new products which is why I've sworn to never buy another Creative product again.

 

Well, technically, those are not drivers, but programs....

That said, a lot of HP software does not work with the Operating System they are intended for, so I would say you are about par for the course...Windows 7 probably detects it as a virus given all the crap HP's install routines throw on you computer.

I don't understand how HP can make such great products for business and such crap for the consumer level...drives me nuts.

 

Creative is still in business? That's a shame. One of the problems I've always had with Creative crap is that they will put different chips on the same product and give the product a sub-model number. Some chips are made by one company, another by another and you can have two identical models that require different drivers.

And to make it more annoying, Creative sometimes only puts updates on their website most of the time instead of the entire driver set. You have to install from the CD which you lost three minutes after installing it the first time, then run an update...but clean installs are impossible.

Creative is another one of those companies that just seems to hate its customers.

 

I have 4 unknown devies on my laptop and I can ekect some WDC ATI device like a usb drive... Didn't have this problem in RC1. Hoping for a fix.

 

My aging Inspiron 9300 required me to hunt down drivers for both the obscure ALPS touchpad (to enable scrolling) and the Sigmatel 9750 audio. Frustratingly, the audio driver had to be manually installed via the device manage, a problem I also encountered on my friend's Compaq v2000z - though at least since this 9300 was an x86 install, there was no need to enable Test Mode and fake-sign a bunch of files. Whether this is a MS issue or a Sigmatel issue I'm not sure, but I'm leaning towards the latter.

My main desktop needed drivers for both the HD 4870 and the X-Fi XtremeGamer; my 2nd one required no intervention on my part other than using RivaTuner to down-clock the 7900GT slightly to avoid hideous screen corruption, but this is an nVidia issue (one that was present in Vista too, no less).

I update all of my video drivers to the latest ones anyways, of course. That said, it's probably not necessary for most people, as the WU ones seem to be kept relatively recent. I'm extremely pleased with OOB device support on Windows 7 thus far.

 

• Synaptics touchpad
• Acer Powersmart Manager
• Intel Matrix Storage manager
• Realtek HD Audio
• Launch Manager

 

1. Alps pointing device for Vaio
2. Sigmatel High definition audio codec
3. Sony Firmware Extension Parser
4. Ricoh webcam
5. TI flash controller

 

All except the Fn key for my screen brightness.

 

Pretty much everything was installed. But not the newest Graphics drivers for the time.

And the HP Touch control buttons were not installed. they had to be downloaded from HP's website.

 

one. a 'driver' (inf file really) for a four year old MAG/Princeton 19" monitor. To get rid of the generic PnP Monitor listing I pointed Device Manager at the .inf I *did* have which was originally for WinXP.

The old .inf installed without complaint, windows integrated it, the Win7 video driver accepted the data, and I can color-correct the monitor.

No problem.

 

My MX Revolution SetPoint stuff (it did install a basic mouse driver), and some video codecs that were required to watch HD.

 

Oh yea, forgot about that one. You have to install the SetPoint software manually. No big deal, really. SetPoint itself is rather large, though, since it contains information about all devices released and supported by Logitech.

 

the newest x3100 drivers just suck imo. all kinds of issues. also i found the synaptics not installed..

 

I figured as much. Screw Creative. I guess I'm off to research new sound cards for my desktop.

 

Why do you even need a sound card? The one on the motherboard is usually good enough.

 

normally I would agree, however, the one on my motherboard isn't so hot. It crackles and stutters when the system is put under load. It's an old ASRock dual Sata socket 939 board with the AM2 upgrade daughter board. I've never been able to get it to sound decent in XP, and now it still doesn't in Win 7.

 

On my e1705, the Ricoh card reader didn't install. On my old desktop (Intel D865PERL motherboard, onboard audio disabled due to no drivers for Vista or 7), the cheap Syba 7.1 sound card I bought was not installed.

 

I've seen touchpad drivers consistently missed by W7.

HP Officejets don't play nice with it either.

All in all, pretty good.

 

Originally, it only listed one of the dual processors (other showed up with a !); one of the updates apparently cleared that up.

 

None

once i install it everything work flawlessly

 

Is it safe to say that if a device doesn't currently(even with SP2) work in Vista then it most likely won't work in Win 7?

 

You can check yourself by going to the device manufacturer' support site.

 

The card reader on my XPS M1330 wasn't picked up, but that was it. I install my drivers manually without Windows Update, because I've had problems before with being able to eject hardware if I let WU install those drivers. On my desktop in the office (OptiPlex 755 w/vPro), the two vPro drivers didn't install and weren't found on Windows Update. But I was able to get them installed with the Windows Vista drivers manually. The Setup programs don't work for the Intel Management Engine Interface driver and the Serial-over-LAN driver, so you have to extract them and have Windows search the extraction folder for them.

 

On my Sony Vaio SR190 and a Win7 Pro rtm, I had to install the following:

Firmware Extension parser (not sure why)
Sony Shared Library and Sony Event utilities (FN function for volume and brighness)
Synaptics driver customized for Sony (from the Sony site)
Webcam driver/program

First WinUpdate installed:

Ati Drivers
Bio scanner driver

All other hardware was supported on install.

 

Windows 7 installed everything I possibly needed. The only thing missing was a modem driver, but I live in the 2000s.

 

It picked up everything, and pushed updated Intel graphics drivers through windows update.

 

on my desktop, the only driver it did not found was the onboard sound (realtek) but it installed the generic driver and it did work.

on the laptop, it did not find the IR port drivers even after windows update but did provide the download link through the solutions found. even biometric reader worked without installing hp-provided digital persona

on a side note, aero seems much more responsive than before, especially for the laptop. i installed Switcher (the expose-like app switcher that works with DWM) and it switches through windows much smoother than when it was with vista.

 

I'm running RC1 x64, and it found all drivers. I installed audio and Intel chipset drivers (do I need these?) just because they were newer than Microsoft's. I also installed the Synaptics driver and my Dell webcam manager software. That's all I had to do.

 

On the 2004 PC I have (2.3GHz Northwood Celeron, 320GB Hard Disk, 2.75GB of memory, i think DDR), it got updates for my Nvidia 5200 FX and Sound when i first booted. LAN already worked w/o updates.

On a Lenovo R61 I put it in, the Bluetooth, Fingerprint scanner, and internal mic didnt work. When I brought it to a computer shop to reformat Vista to XP before, they said it was hard to find XP drivers.

Dunno yet on my netbook, I'll see in October 22 =P