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

By: william

william — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:57:02 +0000

lol i had a dell c840 with win7 it ran beautifully no aero though no other glitches i had a 2.00 pentium 4 2gb gb micro matched set 160 gb single plate hard drive why? single plate they read faster start faster clean install this machine would out run a say hp dv6000 duo core and an msi core i3 if you do a lot of research there are many tricks you can do to speed these old tanks up a c840 will support up to a 2500 mhz cpu and if you can find a 2gb ddr module and by the way they do make them try 3gb of ram installed but no gaurantee you mus be carefull not to over do it have fun

By: Nathan Lowe

Nathan Lowe — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 04:07:41 +0000

Hello, I have this laptop but I got it from my Grandma and Grandpa, I re installed xp and I love it its very fast. I was thinking of putting windows 7 on it.

By: matthew

matthew — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:31:00 +0000

i installed win 7 ultimate on my latitude d830 but i can seem to find the wi-fi drivers any help would be fantastic
sincerely

matthew

By: Musa

Musa — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:44:55 +0000

I can’t find Vista drivers for Latitude D800 on dell support website!!!!So,Where can i find it for free????
Please answer me instant.
Thank you all!!!!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:46:39 +0000

try this:R99254.exe

http://support.us.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=RC978219&l=en&s=slg&releaseid=R99254&formatcnt=0&libid=0&typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&source=-1&fileid=128550

By: neal amratia

neal amratia — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:46:24 +0000

to find a windows vista nvidia driver, dont use the dell website, use google to find the driver

By: Hubert

Hubert — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:27:32 +0000

Hi,
I installed Windows 7 on my latitude D800 but i can not find any audio driver. i read the complete text here.
anyone can post a link how i can download the audio and the video driver? please help me!!
The link “ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/audio/R171788.exe” is not accessible…

By: Ric

Ric — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 01:37:14 +0000

I installed Windows 7 on my D800 and want to upgrade (if necessary) the graphics card becausewhen a TV is connected via the S Video jack to TV RCA Video Jack, the TV will display black and white only.

A NVIDEA tech rep says that the black and white TV display is because the installed card is not Windows 7 compliant.

Anybody have a problem with when TV Out will play in black and white only?

What graphics card can be installed in the D800 that is Windows 7 compliant?

By: Justin Campbell

Justin Campbell — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:55:02 +0000

Windows 7 is hard to install on a desktop system without upgrading the bios first

By: joolz

joolz — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:55:29 +0000

Can only find graphics driver for xp or windows 2000 on dell’s website (no vista listed) which one can we use ?
Thanks

By: Teo

Teo — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:58:18 +0000

Hi neal,
I am stuck with external Hdd on my d800 after I installed win 7 home edition…
Any help?

By: Lawn

Lawn — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 05:55:59 +0000

Windows 7 is definitely the best OS aside from Windows Xp.

By: Neal

Neal — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 09:40:41 +0000

hi im just telling u that if i switch off my laptop by holding the power button; and when i start it again it just shows the windows loading sign. but other than that i have the nvidia driver that works up to aero.
its tested by me. it works perfectly.

By: Neal Amratia

Neal Amratia — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:52:49 +0000

I got aero to work on my dell latitude d800 and works great with no problems. I used a windows vista diver to do it.

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”