drivers for laptop

lp2789 · 11 Oct 2009 at 13:44

Hi there,
I have an Advent 5302 laptop and im running vista premium on it, I am looking to upgrade to windows 7 however I dont have a clue where to obtain the drivers as I wasnt supplied with a driver disk and they are pretty impossible to find on the net. I do have an option to create a recovery disk however I am pretty sure this only deals with a clean reinstall of vista with the required drivers built in already. Help!!!!

thanks

Daegan · 11 Oct 2009 at 14:25

You'll probably find Windows 7 has all the drivers you need, it may not even matter if you're doing an in-place upgrade. Cross that bridge (if and) when you get to it.

Robzere31 · 11 Oct 2009 at 14:29

Yep, I've just done a fresh Windows 7 install on my Advent 6552 laptop.
Windows found all its drivers no problem.

Six6siX · 11 Oct 2009 at 14:29

There will be standard drivers available from the various device manufacturers. Shouldn't be too hard to find with a bit of googling.

As above really, Win7 will probably find all the drivers anyway - if not, most Vista ones will work too.

And yeah, the recovery disk will just re-image the machine with the original Vista config.

ns400r · 11 Oct 2009 at 14:38

Try looking on the hardware manufacturers websites for drivers. Looks mainly SIS based in that model.

NeoVo · 11 Oct 2009 at 14:49

Agreed, windows 7 will find the majority of the drivers if not all. If not, vista drivers should work fine.

lp2789 · 11 Oct 2009 at 16:25

ok cool thanks guys, does anyone know whether the core2duo T5550 supports 64 bit?

Daegan · 11 Oct 2009 at 16:58

lp2789 said:
does anyone know whether the core2duo T5550 supports 64 bit?

Looks like it does.

Supported Features:
# Dual Core
# Enhanced Intel Speedstep® Technology
# Intel® EM64T
# Execute Disable Bit

http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLA4E

ron3003 · 11 Oct 2009 at 20:05

T5550 doesn't support virtualization so stick to Home Premium in Win7 as you cant use the virtual xp mode available in pro version. You can still run stuff in xp compatability if you need to though.

ShakenNstirred · 11 Oct 2009 at 20:22

i installed win 7 on my 3 year old hp laptop and it found every driver(the first time thats ever happened to me when installing a new OS)
so give it a go i say