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    Which driver? m9750 Win 7

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by dugt, Sep 15, 2010.

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    dugt Notebook Consultant

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    After installing Windows 7 I reinstalled many of the Alienware Vista drivers but many devices are still using a driver that Microsoft installed and I am wondering if it is causing a problem. The driver is driving the "Computer", Disk Drives, IEEE 1394, Keyboard, Monitors, Processors....and the list goes on. The driver is dated 6/21/2006 and is Microsoft 6.1.7600.16385. Should I change this to an alienware Vista driver?

    Here is a problem I am trying to solve. I have a PCExpress/54 CF card reader that works really fast when its driver is installed. Unfortunately, whenever I restart my computer, the card readers driver is replaced with the Microsoft driver that I mentioned above and then it works at about 1/10th the speed. This never happened when I had Vista. Any advice would be really appreciated.
     
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    I've found that the Chipset driver is the one used by all of those things listed in my original post. So, my real question is, "Should I try to revert back to the Alienware Vista driver instead of the newer driver that Microsoft recommends for Windows 7?"
     
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