Precision M6400 Owner's Lounge

Just google 'installing windows 7' and it comes up with 66,600,000 hits, the first being a Microsoft site and down the list with most flavors of tech sites on the first page. But that's the Spanish google so your milage may vary. But I'd suggest you first go to Dells download page and download everything on the page dedicated to 7 drivers and such. TechRepublic is a newsletter I get and there's a whole section having to do with anything and everything Win 7. You in some country that filters web content or something? And the 32 bit version practically installs itself, the 64 bit almost as easy.

 

Let me clarify a little more, is there guide to installing windows 7 64bit on the m6400 and is there an order drivers must be installed in? I swear there was a guide for the m6400 win 7 install somewhere.

 

You were a bit vague and I wasn't trying to be a smartass, it just happens sometimes. I do recommend TechRepublic though. I just went and skimmed a couple of issues and there's so much Win 7 stuff and I'm sure somewhere there's at least one step by step guide to everything. But sorry, I couldn't dig up a quick link for you. If I run into it anytime soon I'll post it. Or you could look yourself, there's a ton of good instructional info on 7. And a set of good videos (maybe that's where the install info is) on every aspect and part of the OS. The only problem I had with the 64 bit install was getting it to recognize the FX3700 and it wouldn't for some reason let me download the driver from the Dell page. So I went to my XP partition and downloaded it with no problem and then took it to the Win 7 partition and it installed fine. Other than that one issue it pretty much installed itself. Sorry I have no more, but the TechRepublic lead is a good place to look. The video driver is the only driver I installed and it seems the program just went out somewhere and downloaded the others itself. Which is weird but I think true.

Late update; The window 7 section with 689 different hits for 'installing windows 7'. Look here - http://search.techrepublic.com.com/index.php?q=installing+windows+7
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Precision Covet - QX9300 - 4GB (2x2) - Samsung 64GB SLC SSD & 320GB Seagate - XP Pro 32bit & Windows 7 64bit

 

I started a new Precision M6400 Owner's Lounge thread here:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=425226
This thread has a lot of replies and is starting to slow down database performance.

Thanks guys.