It’s just that I have similar hardware on my Lenovo
I have Windows 7 (installed myself from a Win7 DVD)
No such issues present themselves to me.
So. Did you buy a Upgrade or a New win7 dvd?
Are there any Dell Utilities built in to windows?
When it had windows Vista, did you have a flavor of Linux on it, and if so did it give these problems?
It should be a new Win 7 DVD. I’m not sure about Utilities but I’m pretty sure there isn’t any.
While I had Vista I tried Mandriva and I couldn’t boot to Vista. It was defaulted to Mandriva so I had to remove it. After I uninstalled it there were boot problems with Vista’s boot manager. This problem disappeared when Win 7 was installed.
I don’t remember any driver or hardware issues though.
It’s beginning to look like your hardware isn’t Windows 7 compliant. You haven’t told us the exact model of Dell PC you have. Note that Windows 7 is 10 times more picky about hardware compliance than Windows Vista was, and Vista was really picky!!
Pls specify exactly what Dell model you have, Which version of Vista you were using, which version of Windows 7 you intend to use. I am thinking that the drivers for your specific hardware are not available for windows 7 or you may need to manually upgrade the driver from the mfg site. You may be getting a generic one or ones from Microsoft that are not ideal replacements.
Another thought, Being that is a Dell and Windows Vista was pre-installed, there should have been a hidden recovery drive, and a sometimes hidden re-install image drive. You did back these up didn’t you before trying to install Mandriva? Those steps are very important as they have copies of the correct drivers for your hardware!!
I’m using Dell Vostro 1320. The Vista version was Home Premium 32BIT SP1. Currently using Windows 7 Home Premium 32BIT from OEM.
In terms of backups I didn’t do any. But I remember that there was already a recovery drive for Vista. But while installing Win 7 all the partitions were remade.
This Dell PC came with a DVD with Drivers and Utilities that was already installed on the computer. I tried using this DVD before but I couldn’t find any drivers in the disk while using the disk’s interface. Please help, thank you.
Ok, I checked Dell site. Accordingly at
Drivers & Downloads
This laptop is not recommended for Windows 7 (not all drivers exist, nor the back-up/restore system).
They have the complete set of drivers for windows vista 32bit only. When you chose to install windows 7, it installed generic drivers from microsoft as you overwrote the ones dell provided. You can get the vista drivers, recovery media and more from the dell site. Be sure this time that you follow their directions to the letter. When/if they say do a Back-up, do it! When you get Windows Vista re-installed, new dell drivers installed, & system backed up, you can then re-install Linux and be happy.
Hi, I reinstalled vista but it couldn’t find the Network Controller Driver, would you please tell me how I can find the hardware name or manufacturer name? I tried the CD that came with the Dell Laptop but it couldn’t find the Network Controller Driver. Windows Update couldn’t find the driver online either. I went to the Dell website but no drivers for it was found, I entered the service key and it still couldn’t find it. I tried the R256071 driver from the Dell website for Vista (and later) but it didn’t work.
Please Help, thank you again.
These are your network devices
08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02bb]
Kernel driver in use: r8169
0e:00.0 Network controller [0280]: **Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g **[14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:000c]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Hi I got the driver off the dell website. I was looking at dell.com so I couldn’t find it before. When I looked at dell.ca I found it. According to dell.ca my model of dell laptop is compatible with Windows 7, and they did have some drivers for Win 7.
I reinstalled OpenSUSE and it seems to be working fine now, I can multi-boot now thank you techwiz03 and caf4926. Thanks a lot.
I think it could have been BitDefender my computer security software that could have caused the problems.
Thanks a lot again.
Good news!
Thanks for filling us in.