Windows 7?

I just loaded both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 build 7000 on a new e6500.

Both exciting, as well as disappointing.

Microsoft seems to have gotten it right: very stable, clean load.

Dell seems to have blown it:

- no video driver on the Microsoft DVD; Dell Vista driver won't load on Windows 7 (detects and aborts load)

- wireless doesn't work; Dell Broadcom driver for Vista won't load on Windows 7 (detects and aborts load)

We need help from Dell...

Just the normal nvidia driver issues. 

Lattitude d830 with nvidia Quadro NVS 140m  

The beta nVidia drivers that microsoft supplied after installing Windows 7 only support 16-bit color.  Aero glass won't function at 16bit depth. 

The latest drivers from Dell also have the same problem.    Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of windows 7 have this issue.

I installed Build 6801 on my Inspiron 1501 over a month ago and have been running Windows 7 as the OS with no issues. ATI X1150 Video. All of my devices detected and worked out of the box with no drivers having to be installed. Including the Broadcom Wireless; works like a charm. I clean installed the Beta Build 7000 X64 this morning and I am posting from it now. No issues whatsoever.

pcgeek11

I installed it last night, and until I read the comment above, I didn't realize that Aero Glass wasn't on. I thought it was odd that I couldn't "peek" and show desktop like I had read about, and win-tab didn't bring up the Flip 3D thing, but I thought maybe it was just Beta issues that hadn't been implemented in this build. As soon as I read that, I realized that the title bars and stuff wasn't transparent. :)

I did like that it found the video driver and installed it during windows update before first login, though.

Anyway, on to my gripe/issue. Since installing Windows 7 my fan has behaving erratically. it comes on, then stops but before it even slows down it comes back on again, so it's off-high-off-high-off-high which is a little annoying. I have the latest BIOS installed, too.

I went so far as to install i8kfangui which works with he XPS m1330 and Windows 7, but I don't trust it enough to leave the computer running when I'm not physically here keeping an eye on things.

Has anyone else seen this issue with the fan on the XPS m1330 and Windows 7 Beta build 7000?

Cheers,
-M

An update: I checked my display properties and my color depth IS at 32-bit. I then went to the personalize control panel and noticed that the "theme" was on Custom. I clicked the Windows 7 theme, it said please wait, and then after a few seconds, Aero Glass was turned on, flip-3d worked, peek and show desktop all worked as advertised.

Check Windows Update for another updated driver, maybe they released a new one last night right before I installed.

Hey Docjelly

I have an XPS M1730 laptop and i experienced the same issue regarding the fans after i installed Windows 7 a few days ago =/

I installed the 64-bit version, don't know if it is the same with 32-bit? I didnt check if it was the graphics card or CPU fans, or perhaps both? If it is the graphics card fans it migt be caused by the nvidia drivers.. I didnt try the drivers from windows update, i downloaded the ones from Nvidia (179.28).

I hope this gets solved becuse Windows 7 seems extremely sweet besides the erratic fan behaviour. 

/Michael

I have the same laptop (Dell Latitude D830 with nVidia Quadro NVS 140M) and I also have the same exact problem. I had 64-bit Vista on this computer before I wiped it out and installed Windows 7, and Vista had no problem running 32-bit color.

I was able to use the nVidia Control Panel (under its Display > Manage custom resolutions) to set up a custom resolution of 1440 x 900 at 32-bit color by checking "Allow modes not exposed to the display". Trying this at 1920 x 1200 32-bit fails with "Custom mode test failed".

Dell's 64-bit Vista chipset driver for the D830 won't install in Windows 7 - it fails with "This operating system is not supported".

I will keep fiddling with it and see what I can come up with.

I've found I can push the display all the way up to 1 pixel short of the maximum, native resolution (1919 x 1199 instead of 1920 x 1200) and still keep 32-bit color depth.

I installed Windows 7 (Build 7000) on my Mini9 today. Works great so far, but there are some tricks to getting the OS on there without an Optical drive included. I blogged about it on my website:

How to install the Windows 7 Beta on a Dell Mini9 Netbook

Let me know how you guys make out on getting it on there.

Thanks,

Anthony

Thanks for the tip of creating custom display modes.

I set mine to 1680 x 1050 32-bit, and everything works perfectly now.

I've just installed the former version of the display driver (v174.31, http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R180892&SystemID=Latitude%20D830&servicetag=&os=WV64&osl=en&deviceid=13674&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=3&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=6&fileid=246656) and now everything works OK (1920 x 1200 @ 32 bits).

HTH

Great Discussion:

I did the upgrade install after burning the ISO last night to my M1730. After the completion and restart, Windows 7 Ultimate (upgraded from Vista Ultimate) came up and I haven't found one thing yet that isn't working. Initially I thought that I would have a problem when the MS Website had and Nvidia Driver set that would not install, but to be honest... I was surprise to see that all the hotkeys worked and I have not detected any qwerks yet.

All drivers are working fine. The gadgets from the Beta 7 Website are horrible, so I spun up a few of the hardware monitoring and creature comfort ones and they are report accurate info. I did not dual boot it, and even IE 8 looks good.  Windows 7 Beta appears to be faster to me in everything from 2D apps to the spin of of Blue Rays. The Media Player looks as  if it has been overhauled under the exterior as well.

I have disabled my internal wireless N card and run the LinkSys USB extension base to get the 280 mbps that I see and would never reach with the Intel one.

I have participated in the W2K, XP Pro betas and the driver compatibility issues have lasted well passed the release. Still early obviously, so to be true to the empirical look... stay tuned and thanks for what you are sharing.  This forum and can help a lot. OBTW.... I started drilling the applications and there appears to be some thought given to warning the customer on potential software compat probs... when launching Perfect Disk 8 Pro, and warning was announced that there are or could be some compatibility problems. (sorry can't recall the exact language).

So by this time I was like most of you...already in for the penny and pound...so I ran it several times throughout the day thinking it may corrupt the data or partitions in some crazy way at the API level but nothing happend. Note: I use this laptop for running STK scenarios and the basic Office type stuff so it was low risk of loss of anything but the time to rebuild.  Not the exact way to do Verfication and Validation.  Thanks again for what you share.

Eric

Version 6.1.7000 Build 7000
One of the early 1730's Duo 2.40GHz
8700 card
2GB Ram
200GB

I have a Latitude D800 (2GHz, 2GB RAM, 250GB HD, FX Go5650 128MB). The Win7-Installation was successfull. Only the driver for the NVidia FX Go5650 was not included. I have installed the driver for XP. In the devicemanager is now the device ok. The resolution is ok too: 1650x1050 in 32bit. But the update for the performance-index results in system hang :-/. Otherwise I use this laptop with Vista SP1.

Greeting from Celle/Germany 

Hey Docjelly I have an XPS M1730 laptop and i experienced the same issue regarding the fans after i installed Windows 7 a few days ago =/ I installed the 64-bit version, don't know if it is the same with 32-bit? I didnt check if it was the graphics card or CPU fans, or perhaps both? If it is the graphics card fans it migt be caused by the nvidia drivers.. I didnt try the drivers from windows update, i downloaded the ones from Nvidia (179.28). I hope this gets solved becuse Windows 7 seems extremely sweet besides the erratic fan behaviour.  /Michael

I had similar fan issues in an earlier build of Windows 7 32-bit on my M1330.  When 64-bit was released, the fan seems to work fine now.

However, the two issues I DO have are the mouse pointer locks up every other start and occasional BSOD from the nVidia drivers at startup.  Anyone have a fix?  I've tried probably 40 combinations of drivers and no drivers but problems are still there.  I can post the details or you can PM me.  I'm sure Microsoft will get it straightened out but for now, W7 is so FAST that it is worth the hassle.  It's REALLY that good.