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Anyone put Windows 7 64bit on Dell D610 laptop yet?

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GundamF91

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I have this Dell D610 laptop, currently running Vista 32bit, works fine but has terrible shut down time. I want to dump the bloated Vista for Win7 if I can. What I'm wondering is if D610 hardware will be able to take Win7. I checked Dell, and it's not on the list that can go Win7. But I don't necessarily trust Dell to tell me that I need to buy a new laptop (they're in the biz to sell new laptop afterall 😀).

So has anyone successfully put Win7 on their D610 yet? I'm mostly looking at 64bit version of Win7.
 
This is a Latitude D610? Dell doesn't even have Vista drivers, this thing must be getting up there in age. I imagine if Vista runs on it, Win 7 will. Any particular reason you want to go 64bit route?
 
Do a Google search. People that have done it say that there were problems with some of the drivers, especially the video, but there are work arounds, like using the Win XP video driver in compatibility mode.
 
I'm running Win7-32 bit on a Latitude X1 which has the same 915 chipset. It works great with an SSD, and is snappier than XP--boots in about 50 seconds. Like others have suggested, I did have to work a bit with the video driver; I used sp34749.exe in compatibility mode. (I needed to fiddle around with drivers to get the sound to work too, but that's probably different for the D610.)
 
Best decision you ever made 🙂

I've been running Win7 (32bit) on my Latitude D610 since the RC, probably more than a year. Much faster than Vista/XP and better feel overall.

The best video driver is legacy ati mobility driver (i think it was version 10.2) by using mobility modder

Good luck! Let us know how it goes 🙂
 
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