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some one needs to write a guide on how to install windows 7 on m17x

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well i did the install and hd to install drivers and than remoe drivers and install windows vista drivers and than go in bios and disable the nic and i am still having issues with my wireless it goes to 216 and than keeps going down even if i am sitting at one palce and settles down at 11mbps i have installed and removed the dell drivers and it does not work
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well i did the install and hd to install drivers and than remoe drivers and install windows vista drivers and than go in bios and disable the nic and i am still having issues with my wireless it goes to 216 and than keeps going down even if i am sitting at one palce and settles down at 11mbps i have installed and removed the dell drivers and it does not work
I agree. I already installed Win 7 and then just went back to Vista Business since I had so many issues and conflicts.
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i did the upgrade but was not satisfied with it so i install clean so far i have no problems everytihng works.
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i did the upgrade but was not satisfied with it so i install clean so far i have no problems everytihng works.
Would you expand as where you pulled down the drivers and the sequencing steps of installing W7 new?

cheers ...
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I did a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit the day I got my m17x, since it shipped with Windows 7 Home Premium. The install went smoothly. I deletd the partitions on the hard drive then recreated them and installed Windows 7. Once completed, I installed the chipset, video, audio, NIC, wireless, BT, Ricoh, and several other drivers. Once completed, I still had a device in the device manager, listed as a "coprocessor". I right-clicked on the "coprocessor" entry in the device manager and clicked to update the driver. I pointed the updater to the folder where the chipset driver had extracted to, and it installed the nForce driver. Mine has run flawlessly since reinstalling, except for some weird video issues while on java-heavy sites, like facebook when the 280m's were disabled. I disabled the 280m's and loaded the latest 9400m driver from the nVidia site, and now my video is flawless with or without the discrete video enabled. My Windows Experience Score for graphics is 6.4 with the 9400m and 7.2 with the 280m's.
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Good one freekyFX4.

Here is another one for the m15x, reading that one must install an older BIOS version to solve the issue on the fan in W7 64 Bits.

cheers ...
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