Dell Inspiron 1720 x64 success!


  1. zx81
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    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
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    Dell Inspiron 1720 x64 success!


    Hello all!

    I want to report that I successfully installed Windows 7 Home Premium x64 on my Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop.

    Only driver needed was latest Nvidea driver for Geforce 8600M GT.
    You have to enable Aero manualy, I forgot how I did it ;-)

    A very minor driver isue is still not solved, but overall everything works great.
    Base System Device no driver

    Experience Index 4.7, well I am satisfied with the way Windows 7 Feels and look.

    Another thing I am investigating is why Windows Vista is still in the boot menu, and this while I deleted the vista partition and formated it before clean install.

    Questions are always welcome, I will try to answer them.

    Have a nice day!

    zx81
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  3. Dc2daylight
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    W7 home premium 64bit
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    Touch pad?


    I was wondering if you've found a work around for the touch pad. I installed W7 home premium 64-bit. The scroll bars on my touch pad don't work any more. I looked for a driver for it and no help from dell. Any input would be most appreciated.
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  4. Ztruker
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    What kind of Touchpad do you have? Alps or something else. If you post the service tag # for the laptopwe can look on the Dell web site to find that info, then download a Win 7 X64 driver for it from almost anywhere.

    See here: Alps Touch Pad driver for Win 7 64bit
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  6. Dc2daylight
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    I it is a Dell Touchpad. I can't find anything on the system configuration page. The line for the key board says "Keyboard, 101, United States English, Single Pointing Adriatic" I don't know if that gives you the info for the touchpad.
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  7. Ztruker
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    Windows 10 Pro X64
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    Provide the service tag# and we can look at the ship document to see what was included. That should tell us.

    Also,
    • Open Device Manager - (Control Panel, System, Hardware tab, Device Manager)
    • Expand the each entry that has a yellow ! next to it.
    • Double click on each one in turn
    • Click on the Details tab
    • Make sure Device Instance Id is selected in the drop down box
    • Click on the line that starts with PCI\Ven_ then press Ctrl+C to copy it to the clipboard
    • Start a reply here and paste the copied data in it.

    It will look something like this: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2449&SUBSYS_30138086&REV_01\4&2B96F39&0&40F0
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  8. PatrickS
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    Windows 7 Professional x64
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    What verision of the nvidia driver did you install?
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