Windows 7 Drivers

Post by SC Tom
Has anybody found any Win7 drivers for a Gateway M6850-fx? I'm
running the WU drivers and Vista drivers right now (which seem to
work OK), but I'd like to find an updated video driver for it that's
Win7 compatible (not Win7 Beta as on the ATI site).
Thanks!
--
SC Tom

Hi Tom! While I didn't like Windows 7 on my three Gateway MX6124 or my
Asus netbooks. Way too slow for starters. But I am going to give Windows
7 another chance and try it on my Gateway M465e tomorrow. So I'll keep
my eyes open. <grin>

--
Bill
Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) 2 of 3 - Windows XP SP3

SC Tom

2010-01-04 21:27:33 UTC

Hi Tom! While I didn't like Windows 7 on my three Gateway MX6124 or my
Asus netbooks. Way too slow for starters. But I am going to give Windows 7
another chance and try it on my Gateway M465e tomorrow. So I'll keep my
eyes open. <grin>
--
Bill
Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) 2 of 3 - Windows XP SP3

Thanks! I upgraded mine from Vista (which was solid as a rock, but not very
fast, no matter what I did) to Win7 and am very happy with it. All the
drivers that were installed seemed to work OK but the ATI driver. It gave an
error now and again, so I tried the Win7 Beta from ATI's site and it seems
to be holding. I'd rather get a regular driver than a beta.

--
SC Tom

Ben Myers

2010-01-04 21:39:17 UTC

Hi Tom! While I didn't like Windows 7 on my three Gateway MX6124 or my
Asus netbooks. Way too slow for starters. But I am going to give
Windows 7 another chance and try it on my Gateway M465e tomorrow. So
I'll keep my eyes open. <grin>
--
Bill
Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) 2 of 3 - Windows XP SP3

Thanks! I upgraded mine from Vista (which was solid as a rock, but not
very fast, no matter what I did) to Win7 and am very happy with it. All
the drivers that were installed seemed to work OK but the ATI driver. It
gave an error now and again, so I tried the Win7 Beta from ATI's site
and it seems to be holding. I'd rather get a regular driver than a beta.

Then stay tuned for a no-longer-a-beta driver from AMD/ATI. They are
the only game in town when it comes to drivers for their chips... Ben Myers

SC Tom

2010-01-04 21:53:30 UTC

Thanks! I upgraded mine from Vista (which was solid as a rock, but not
very fast, no matter what I did) to Win7 and am very happy with it. All
the drivers that were installed seemed to work OK but the ATI driver. It
gave an error now and again, so I tried the Win7 Beta from ATI's site and
it seems to be holding. I'd rather get a regular driver than a beta.

Then stay tuned for a no-longer-a-beta driver from AMD/ATI. They are the
only game in town when it comes to drivers for their chips... Ben Myers

That's what I've been doing. So far, the only listing for the ATI Mobility
Radeon HD 2600 Graphics Card is still the beta version from 9/9/09. Since it
is a PCIe chip, I'm tempted to image my drive, install v9.12 for the Radeon
HD2600 (PCIe) and see what happens. I can't imagine it doing any physical
damage, and that the most I'd have to do is rewrite the HDD with the image.

--
SC Tom

BillW50

2010-01-04 22:12:11 UTC

Post by SC Tom
That's what I've been doing. So far, the only listing for the ATI
Mobility Radeon HD 2600 Graphics Card is still the beta version from
9/9/09. Since it is a PCIe chip, I'm tempted to image my drive,
install v9.12 for the Radeon HD2600 (PCIe) and see what happens. I
can't imagine it doing any physical damage, and that the most I'd
have to do is rewrite the HDD with the image. --
SC Tom

I routinely test my backups by throwing in a spare HDD. As some backup
programs works well for making backups, but fail on restores. And if
something goes wrong, you still have your original untouched drive. I
have lots of spare HDD though. Although if you don't have a spare, it
might be a good idea to get one. Plus if you purchase spare carriers,
they are very easy to swap in and out. I don't know, I think it is a
good idea anyway. <grin>

I just did this today and cloned three HDD. Two were 5400rpm and one
4200rpm. All three have the same clone. Booted up one by one and they
all boot up in 60 seconds. I would have guessed the 5400rpm ones would
have been faster. What a surprise, eh?

--
Bill
Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) 2 of 3 - Windows XP SP3

SC Tom

2010-01-04 23:49:25 UTC

I routinely test my backups by throwing in a spare HDD. As some backup
programs works well for making backups, but fail on restores. And if
something goes wrong, you still have your original untouched drive. I have
lots of spare HDD though. Although if you don't have a spare, it might be
a good idea to get one. Plus if you purchase spare carriers, they are very
easy to swap in and out. I don't know, I think it is a good idea anyway.
<grin>
I just did this today and cloned three HDD. Two were 5400rpm and one
4200rpm. All three have the same clone. Booted up one by one and they all
boot up in 60 seconds. I would have guessed the 5400rpm ones would have
been faster. What a surprise, eh?
--
Bill
Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) 2 of 3 - Windows XP SP3

I use Acronis True Image and can create and restore an image of the notebook
in about 2, 2-1/2 hours on my external USB drive, so that's no big deal.
I was surprised myself that RPM's really didn't seem to make any discernable
difference in the boot up time or access time in real time. We had 5,900RPM
SCSI drives in our servers at work, and the upgrade to 10,000RPM drives
didn't make any difference that I could tell except in my IT budget balance
;-)

--
SC Tom

BillW50

2010-01-05 05:25:21 UTC

Post by SC Tom
I use Acronis True Image and can create and restore an image of the
notebook in about 2, 2-1/2 hours on my external USB drive, so that's
no big deal.

Acronis True Image v12 is one of them which causes me problems. As it
can't see some of my external hard drives during restore. Support
solution is to not use those drives. <sigh>

Post by SC Tom
I was surprised myself that RPM's really didn't seem to make any
discernable difference in the boot up time or access time in real
time. We had 5,900RPM SCSI drives in our servers at work, and the
upgrade to 10,000RPM drives didn't make any difference that I could
tell except in my IT budget balance ;-)

Ouch!

This laptop here uses a SATA 5400rpm HHD and all of my others use PATA
drives. And this one is twice as fast as the PATA ones. So sometimes
things actually work like you expect it too. <grin>

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Windows XP SP2

SC Tom

2010-01-08 02:15:31 UTC

Hi Tom! While I didn't like Windows 7 on my three Gateway MX6124 or my
Asus netbooks. Way too slow for starters. But I am going to give
Windows 7 another chance and try it on my Gateway M465e tomorrow. So
I'll keep my eyes open. <grin>
--
Bill
Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) 2 of 3 - Windows XP SP3

Thanks! I upgraded mine from Vista (which was solid as a rock, but not
very fast, no matter what I did) to Win7 and am very happy with it. All
the drivers that were installed seemed to work OK but the ATI driver. It
gave an error now and again, so I tried the Win7 Beta from ATI's site
and it seems to be holding. I'd rather get a regular driver than a beta.

Then stay tuned for a no-longer-a-beta driver from AMD/ATI. They are the
only game in town when it comes to drivers for their chips... Ben Myers

That's what I've been doing. So far, the only listing for the ATI Mobility
Radeon HD 2600 Graphics Card is still the beta version from 9/9/09. Since
it is a PCIe chip, I'm tempted to image my drive, install v9.12 for the
Radeon HD2600 (PCIe) and see what happens. I can't imagine it doing any
physical damage, and that the most I'd have to do is rewrite the HDD with
the image.
--
SC Tom

Well, I tried to install the standard HD2600 package, and no go. The CCC
wouldn't come up after the install, and the driver didn't install at all,
saying that it was up to date, even though the one installed is 8.5xxxx and
the new one is 9.12. I assume that it didn't see a standard 2600 so left the
driver alone. Luckily, all I had to do was reinstall the beta to bring
everything back to where it was. Since ATI doesn't seem to care about the
Mobility series, looks like I'm stuck with the beta until I need a new
notebook. This is their note:

"Note: The Mobility Radeon ATI Catalyst drivers for Windows 7 are beta and
are only available for Windows 7 beta releases. For up to date Mobility
Radeon graphics drivers for Windows 7, please contact your laptop
manufacturer."

And I'm certainly not going to be holding my breath until Gateway releases
any updates for Win7. They don't have any Win7 drivers at all for the 6850.
Thanks to all who replied, and anyone else who may have looked!

--
SC Tom

BillW50

2010-01-06 02:40:14 UTC

Post by BillW50
Hi Tom! While I didn't like Windows 7 on my three Gateway MX6124 or my
Asus netbooks. Way too slow for starters. But I am going to give
Windows 7 another chance and try it on my Gateway M465e tomorrow. So
I'll keep my eyes open. <grin>
--
Bill
Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) 2 of 3 - Windows XP SP3

Thanks! I upgraded mine from Vista (which was solid as a rock, but not
very fast, no matter what I did) to Win7 and am very happy with it. All
the drivers that were installed seemed to work OK but the ATI driver. It
gave an error now and again, so I tried the Win7 Beta from ATI's site
and it seems to be holding. I'd rather get a regular driver than a beta.

Hi Tom! While I have two unopened Windows 7 upgrades up on the shelf. I
used the Windows 7 RC to install. It was flawless. It automatically
detected and installed drivers for everything. Except for the built in
card reader which is worthless anyway. As it only reads up to 1GB cards.
I always use an USB card reader instead.

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Windows 7 (build 7100)

Justbob30

2010-01-06 03:40:37 UTC

I did a Vista to 7 upgrade on a 6850, had no problems at all except wireless
(which I expected from the beta) if you depend on wireless connection,
download the wireless driver to reinstall after update done....now the fx
has ATI video rather than the Intel, so, I can't comment on that but, my
experience is, if it worked with Vista, it works with 7.

Post by SC Tom
Has anybody found any Win7 drivers for a Gateway M6850-fx? I'm running the
WU drivers and Vista drivers right now (which seem to work OK), but I'd
like to find an updated video driver for it that's Win7 compatible (not
Win7 Beta as on the ATI site).
Thanks!
--
SC Tom

SC Tom

2010-01-06 12:40:53 UTC

It works good enough, but the CCC is not compatible with Win7 even though it
was with Vista. I'm not having any problems with it per se, just pretty much
looking for the "whole" driver, if you see what I mean. Everything else
works great right out of the box; in fact, my wireless works better with
Win7. I get connected quicker (Vista would sometimes balk at connecting,
especially after Hibernation), have a stronger, more consistent connection,
and don't get the "can't find the internet" messages I occasionally got in
Vista.
Thanks.
--
SC Tom

Post by Justbob30
I did a Vista to 7 upgrade on a 6850, had no problems at all except
wireless (which I expected from the beta) if you depend on wireless
connection, download the wireless driver to reinstall after update
done....now the fx has ATI video rather than the Intel, so, I can't comment
on that but, my experience is, if it worked with Vista, it works with 7.

Post by SC Tom
Has anybody found any Win7 drivers for a Gateway M6850-fx? I'm running
the WU drivers and Vista drivers right now (which seem to work OK), but
I'd like to find an updated video driver for it that's Win7 compatible
(not Win7 Beta as on the ATI site).
Thanks!
--
SC Tom

Ken Whiton

2010-01-08 16:02:40 UTC