Comments on: Upgrading a 5 Year Old Laptop to Windows 7

By: neal

neal — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:08:03 +0000

i have a dell latitude d800 and i installed windows 7 and it works fine. the only problem is with the usb devices. some usb devices dont work on my laptop eg my external hard drive and my flash disk dont show up on my computer. if anyone knows a solution, please send it to this email: nealamratia619@live.com
thanx

By: Bob ormel

Bob ormel — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:07:36 +0000

I have a dell D800 as well, 2gB of ram, 2.1 Ghz processor. What bothers me is the Nvidia GeForce 5200go card. Vista had full support, including for Aero, but windows 7 test says it doesn’t know the card. I can get around that?

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By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:49:51 +0000

update: sorry, my bad. i downloaded the wrong file from dell. it was the driver name followed by HTML rather than DRIVER. doh. works perfectly

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:00:35 +0000

hi Marc – great post. I’m doing exactly the same thing and upgrading my d800 to win7. Only problem is, when i try and install the vid drivers the setup program tells me it’s for winXP and above. After a small laugh – i’m now stuck! did you have this problem? any way round it? (i’ve tried getting windows to look at the folder directly to update the driver via device manager but no luck)

By: Cheetoz

Cheetoz — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:00:11 +0000

i would like to know what audio driver did you put on your dell d800..

By: Kirk D Bowlby

Kirk D Bowlby — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:24:52 +0000

I upgraded an old Dell 5100 laptop with windows 7, also loaded it on a 750 mhz desktop with 512mb ram and it ran without a hitch… great operating system.

By: Christiam

Christiam — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:05:57 +0000

Hi Marc i have the same latitude d800 but the procesor is PM 2.13 and have 1GB ram, i have the W/ Ultimate on this machine but my video card is cong with this driver ATI MOBILE RADEON X600 with this i can use the areo setting.

regards

By: Allen

Allen — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:23:56 +0000

I am having the same issue with the USB drivers for this exact same laptop. It does not show as compatible with Windows 7 on Dell’s website and I assume that is because of the USB drivers. Has anyone been able to get this issue fixed as of yet?

By: Bert

Bert — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:47:30 +0000

I am running an M60 which is the same as a D800 and i get the same 82801 error…anyone have a fix for this…also i found a little fix sorta…just plug in your USB device and reboot and it will work but when you remove it, it will get the error again….

By: Stewart

Stewart — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:57:36 +0000

I have the same laptop, I also installed Windows 7 and had no problems… Except when I connect some USB devices, in device manager the Intel 82801 throw up an error. Anyone else had the same issue, and have you fixed it…?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:26:46 +0000

I have been reading your posts lately, just want to say thanks for all informative stuff i have found here, helped me learn alot lately.

Much Regards, Mark

By: NetbookMan

NetbookMan — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:12:30 +0000

Useful information. Next Gen of laptop is Netbook

By: Marc Liron MVP

Marc Liron MVP — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:20:50 +0000

Hi Chris,

The DELL D800 is a Pentium M 1.4GHz – 30GB (4,200) – 512Mb (266MHz DDR) 15.4 WXGA – 64Mb NVIDA Graphics.

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By: Chris Pietschmann

Chris Pietschmann — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:23:45 +0000

What CPU and Ram spec does you old d800 have? I have an old Inspiron 1100 I’ve been thinking about trying out Windows 7 on with 2.4Ghz Celeron and 512MB Ram. If Win7 runs good on it, I shall call it my “netbook”

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