Windows 7 Drivers

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!
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SC Tom

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SC Tom typed on Mon, 4 Jan 2010 11:08:11 -0500:
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

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

"BillW50" wrote in message
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SC Tom typed on Mon, 4 Jan 2010 11:08:11 -0500:
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

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.
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SC Tom

SC Tom wrote:

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In ,
SC Tom typed on Mon, 4 Jan 2010 11:08:11 -0500:
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

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

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SC Tom wrote:

"BillW50" wrote in message
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In ,
SC Tom typed on Mon, 4 Jan 2010 11:08:11 -0500:
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

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.
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SC Tom

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SC Tom typed on Mon, 4 Jan 2010 16:53:30 -0500:
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?

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

"BillW50" wrote in message
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In ,
SC Tom typed on Mon, 4 Jan 2010 16:53:30 -0500:
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?

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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
;-)
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SC Tom

In ,
SC Tom typed on Mon, 4 Jan 2010 18:49:25 -0500:
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

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

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

SC Tom wrote:
"BillW50" wrote in message
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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.


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

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.

"SC Tom" wrote in message
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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