Comments on: No Windows 7 drivers turn Dell M1330 into a doorstop

By: refurbished computers

refurbished computers — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:10:14 +0000

The move to Vista saw me move to using the onboard sound on the motherboard – it was good enough and generally supported, as opposed to paying Creative a fortune for a doorstop.

By: orange

orange — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:29:29 +0000

I’ve been using the Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit 7100 build RC since July 2009 and it’s been working great.

I’d always use the nVidia drivers anyway and MS update found everything for me anyway.

The only problems I had were with the touch sensitive media controls, but that was fixed with a little tinkering.

I’m quite frankly shocked you write for PcPro, you don’t seem to know what you’re talking about.

By: jason

jason — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:37:12 +0000

i agree with JH. Dell drivers don’t work well on 7 an dthe NVidia do….. apart from the laptop no longer sleeps correctly and keeps losing power. Its a m1330 xps…. come on Dell….. pull your finger out, obviously the core driver is there !!!

By: John

John — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:31:55 +0000

nVidia has the Win 7 drivers for the 8400 GS in the M1330. Works perfectly on mine.

By: Bing

Bing — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:56:17 +0000

Just installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my M1330. Using nVidia 64-bit driver on my 8400M GS, works fine.

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:18:45 +0000

Jon – as the laptop is being used as a doorstop, would you care to donate it to an unemployed IT professional who needs a new machine (currently uses a 10 yr odl PIII based T22), and Windows 7 exposure?

By: SiliconAddict

SiliconAddict — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:39:58 +0000

*sighs* Since this system was over a year old I will bet a months salary that all relevant drivers are included IN the OS. Take me Tablet PC. 4 years old. It found EVERYTHING through the OS. And the wacom drivers for the screen? Found that through a windows update. The only thing you might not have is Dell’s crapware helper apps that bog down a system anyways and is pretty much useless on a modern OS like 7 anyways: read, Windows does a better job of pwr mgmt and switching comm interfaces then these “helper” apps.

By: antonymus

antonymus — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:57:50 +0000

I have two Dell 1330’s,both ran W7RC from its outset, with no problems. Have had both with Home Premium (32) installed for a week now. Went to Dell site and collected drivers, all OK. Had to contact Microsoft when a screen popped up on Thursday telling me that ‘this activation key cannot be used to activate this product..’(W7) Which was a bit of a surprise as I had activated itimmediately on installation, and had been properly thanked my MS, whohad assured me that I was now activated. CS told me that the activation key had become corrupted and gave me a replacement, which is working as I type. Other than this, all is sweetness and light. Now in my 76th year and as non-technical as can be, I can claim to be a fully paid-up member of Joe Public, so Mr Honeyball must not worry too much about us, though we do appreciate his concern.

By: PaulMc

PaulMc — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:27:48 +0000

Crikey! the gentleman is only informing you of it’s pitfalls.

By: David Wright

David Wright — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:05:46 +0000

@ Jayengee
You don’t have to wait for an “offer” from Kaspersky, you just download and install the latest version. You are essentially just paying for the update rights, not a specific version.

@Andrew Crook
I think you missed the main thrust, not that W7 doesn’t work or that the Vista drivers won’t work on W7, but that it was a Faux Pas on Microsoft/Dell’s part, because it was the model handed out to the Press to show off Windows 7… Essentially, if MS and Dell were going to get Windows 7 to work on just 1 machine, that is the 1 machine it should work on without any hitches.