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May 27th, 2007 14:00

When will Dell release Vista

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May 27th, 2007 15:00

latitude_2025,
 
Dell is already selling systems with Windows Vista.  It is available for home/home office customers, small business customers, medium and large business customers, as well as government, education, and healthcare customers.  In many cases, Dell is still offering the option to purchase one of the several versions of Windows XP as well as Vista.
 
Steve

May 27th, 2007 15:00

Hi Steve,
 
somehow my post was timed out & only part went through.
 
It was supposed to be entitled
 
"When will Dell release Vista 64 bit Ricoh drivers"
 
I bought Vista Ultimate Full edt. & another 100GB 7,200RPM HDD for my Inspiron 6400.
(this way I can swap out drives, when I want to use one or the other,
 & keep one from messing with the other's Boot Menu.)
I installed the 64 bit Vista Ultimate.
 
 
 
I spent the last hour researching this:
 
Dell Inspiron 6400/E1505 Model has two "Base System Devices"
Listed under Other Devices, (In Device Manager)
 
PCI\VEN_1180&DEV_0592&SUBSYS_01BD1028&REV_0A
Ricoh Memory Stick Host Controller
 
PCI\VEN_1180&DEV_0843&SUBSYS_01BD1028&REV_01
Ricoh MMC Host Controller
 
 
The SD card works flawlessly with the built in drivers Vista has, for the Ricoh card controller.
In fact, the 6400 works flawlessly, and so far every bit of 32 bit software, I've installed is working fine. I've installed games from 1998 and up, they all work, of course compatibility mode was needed for some. That was expected. All the bad mouthing Vista has gotten, must be coming from those who don't know how to run an OS efficiently, or they didn't use Vista Compatible Hardware
(I built a Vista Ultimate Gamer with a quad-core 2.93Ghz 8MB L2 on  ASUS Striker with 2 BFG 8800GTX's  it works great)
 
latidude

May 27th, 2007 16:00

.Also, I bought them both from Dell, as I was told all Support would be from them.
(I turns out I was sent the full Edt. so Microsoft supports the OS for 180 days) Dell supports the hardware. I contacted Dell Tech. they directed me to the 64 bit downloads page for the 6400,
but there isn't any drivers I haven't already downloaded.
 
latidude_2025
 
 
Ps
I got my 6400 in late Jan, with XP Pro SP2

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May 27th, 2007 18:00

latidude_2025,
 
Here is the XP 64 driver for the Ricoh MMC card:
 
 
As for Dell Tech Support, Dell will support only the operating system which came factory installed on your computer.  Dell does not sell "Dell-Branded" operating systems separately.  If you purchase any operating system from Dell separately from a complete system, it will be supported by the maker of that OS. 
 
Steve

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May 27th, 2007 19:00

Hi latidude_2025
Read your other post i have you coverd there.
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