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Need Help with Dell Latitude D610/Win 7 Drivers

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I cannot find graphics drivers to save my life for this machine. Intel's site says that the GMA 900 is not supported and they do not make Win 7 drivers.

Fine.

are there some other drivers that work? some compatibility mode? or custom hacked drivers? I really dont want to put XP on this thing. Its just for someone to literally use Word, Excel, and email.

ANy help is appreciated. Thanks.
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Check this:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...2-d11bcaba6b88

Or see if you can find a dedicated card from that era, I did a 7 install on D820 but it had a little 64gb nvidia card in it.
careful with those i915 drivers in Win7, they will install the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator app on your computer, which hogs memory like crazy, also you will have a black screen after login for about 3 seconds.. same for resolution change, the "switch user" button on the logon, and pretty much anything that will cause an abrupt change, i advise using the generic VGA drivers until a hacked driver comes out with WDDM support
As someone who has used the D610, I'd recommend not running Windows 7 on it. Windows 7 on a Pentium M is a lot of OS for that single-core CPU to chew on, and if you've never replaced the hard drive, you probably have an older, slower one that will be taxed hard.

I'd recommend a D620 as being the minimum Latitude in that line for Windows 7; I'd stick with XP on the D610.
im running it on my D610 at above average speed for a Pentium M, but i did replace the hard drive for a 7,200 rpm 160GB one for about 100$ (its a pretty good investment if your stuck with this laptop for a while
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im running it on my D610 at above average speed for a Pentium M, but i did replace the hard drive for a 7,200 rpm 160GB one for about 100$ (its a pretty good investment if your stuck with this laptop for a while

$100 for a hard drive, when $200-250 will probably get you a used Latitude D620 or D630 dual-core laptop on Craigslist, so IMHO, not a great deal.

Also, it's become nearly impossible to find 7200RPM IDE notebook drives. Today's PATA notebook drives are pretty much all 5400RPM now.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...%20%2f%20ATA-6
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Not to be unhelpful but honestly with a machine that old you should start looking to Linux + LibreOffice to get any kind of use out of it.

My netbook is comparable I guess and I wouldn't put windows back on it for the reasons of bad driver support and terrible resource management. Linux just works better on older tech.
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