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03-12-2009, 11:05 AM
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#1 | | VLS Barista Brat
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| Vista drivers not working in windows 7
So, I have a netbook (Averatec 10.2" buddy), and I installed windows 7 (build 7048) on it but none of the vista drivers that were released for the laptop work on the damn thing. Any ideas?
Please don't tell me to just install WinXP... I need something different.
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03-12-2009, 11:24 AM
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#2 | | Resident Bullshitter
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thats what you get for using a beta OS, nothing is guarantee to work
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03-12-2009, 02:34 PM
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#3 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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all of the drivers for vista work for my laptop running windows7
did u do a clean install or upgrade
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03-12-2009, 03:21 PM
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#4 | | VLS Barista Brat
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It was an upgrade...
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03-12-2009, 08:36 PM
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#5 | | "They call me Bowser...RawR!"
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any drivers showing up in Windows update? I find it actually works very well...
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03-12-2009, 10:09 PM
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#6 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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if its an upgrade from vista all your drivers should still be working unless something was faulty before the upgrade went on
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03-13-2009, 08:25 AM
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Originally Posted by lilaznviper  if its an upgrade from vista all your drivers should still be working unless something was faulty before the upgrade went on | If it's a Netbook, I highly doubt it was on Vista previously.
In the short time I had Windows 7 installed on my desktop, the Vista drivers worked for me.
Are there Windows 7 drivers for other Netbook manufacturers that have a similar architecture as your netbook? Maybe you can try theirs (i.e. Asus, MSI, etc) as long as the components are the same. (I'm thinking probably chipset and video might be common components that are the same in both)
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03-13-2009, 10:08 AM
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#8 | | VLS Barista Brat
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Originally Posted by !LittleDragon any drivers showing up in Windows update? I find it actually works very well... | I would try that if I could get the network adapter working. Haw!
I finally went and formatted the hd and did a clean install of Windows 7 with no luck. The original opsys on the netbook was WinXP Pro, but my brother gave it to me with all the drivers working - stupid me, didn't back them up.
Every time I try to install a Vista driver on it, they all complain and say that it wasn't meant for the opsys, so I tried installing them in compatibility mode... Which didn't work - it'd install the driver, but nothing would actually happen.
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03-13-2009, 07:27 PM
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#9 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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trinity, how do you like the Averatec?
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03-13-2009, 10:18 PM
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What version of Windows 7 are you using ? 32-bit or 64-bit ?
If it's 64-bit, that's likely the problem as a netbook probably doesn't support 64-bit.
If it's 32-bit, *shrug*
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03-13-2009, 10:49 PM
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If it helps, the Averatec Buddy is a rebranded MSI Wind. See if you can find Windows 7 drivers for an MSI Wind (which might be easier to find) and use them to load Windows 7.
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03-13-2009, 11:43 PM
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#12 | | NOOB, Not Quite a Regular!
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Subnotes I'm sure will have much better support when a beta version is actually ready. THey don't run vista worth a crap because they just don't have the power. Windows 7 however has much better memory management and isn't such a pig to run.
I highly doubt you'll get anything but XP to run on that thing. Once 7 is eventually released, dual core Atom's will be in most new subnotes and will be better able to handle W7.
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