Hi,
Have a few questions I'm hoping you folks can help me with.
Recently picked up a Dell Latitude D630 that had no HD - was going to install Win Vista Business (on COA) with Digital River .iso & in fact had burned it to DVD along with the .iso (burned to CD) for the Drivers specific to service tag on this laptop.
Well I now have a OEM Windows 7 Home Premium disc. I wasn't sure if this machine would run Win 7 but it loaded just fine & we are up & running on the generic windows drivers. Here is the machine info:
Processor, T7300, 2.0, 4MB, Core Merom, E1 & 2 GB RAM installed. BIOS = A13
OK now I am back to the Clean Install of Win 7 with regards to the drivers & have some concerns:
first - tried to let Dell analyze the system & see if it would suggest drivers. Told me it was unable to do so.
1) I see a note =Note for several new systems inputting a Service Tag has lead to a wrong and/or incomplete set of system drivers. Does that mean I should not use the drivers CD created for Vista install & go thru the list of 65 or so drivers for D630 (no service tag) & decide which are valid?
Edit: finding a number of driver downloads in the non-specific service tag D630 listing that apply to this machine. So question #1 is answered.
2) In the service tag specific drivers only BIOS A17 is listed. In all D630 drivers there is also BIOS A18? Do I only install A17 or jump right to A18? A18 looks very important & ties into the next question about the video driver.
A18 = Intel GM965 Graphics Video BIOS version 1588, NVIDIA Quadro NVS 135M Video BIOS version 60.86.68.00.16
Edit: Am wondering if I should install the chipset driver before anything else.
3) Getting a flag that a Video Card Driver is required. Found a thread that indicated the R180864 Intel driver needs to be installed in Windows Vista compatibility mode. This driver only shows up in All Files for Latitude D630, does not show up in drivers specific for this service tag. That would be the Quadro NVS 135M. Do I then only install the nVidia Quadro in compatibility mode?
4) Bluetooth (If applicable) - Under Network. For systems with only Windows Vista Drivers available: Latitude systems use R231570. Guess that is pretty straight forward.
Thanks in advance for any help.