Matt Dyson » Windows 7 http://mattdyson.org My life, and everything in it Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:38:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Windows 7 on a Inspiron 510m http://mattdyson.org/blog/2010/02/windows-7-on-a-inspiron-510m/ http://mattdyson.org/blog/2010/02/windows-7-on-a-inspiron-510m/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:52:30 +0000 Matt http://mattdyson.co.uk/?p=172 My ancient old knackered laptop (recently upgraded with a brand new 1Gb stick of RAM) had been running Ubuntu for a number of years, and was getting to the point where a OS re-install was necessary. I’ve been getting increasingly annoyed with the university wireless not playing nicely – so decided to give Windows 7 a try (since I can get it nice and free!)

Install was a breeze, OS booted fine first time, all drivers found and installed by Windows Update – apart from one…

Seems I was stuck with the 640×480 VGA resolution driver, Intel doesn’t think their 8XXGM series drivers work well with 7. Never fear – a bit of Googling revealed this site: http://www.groundstate.net/855GMWin7.html, which contains instructions for tricking 7 into installing the old drivers! Result! Although Seb may have had a slight point on this weeks Tech 107 (episode 3) about Macs being easier due to them not needing separate driver install. Ah well.

So – I’m now officially off Linux and 100% Windows again. Lets see how long it lasts this time!

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