Windows 7 and G40

[blackrockburner]

I have a G40 and I'm considering win7. I downloaded and ran the windows 7 upgrade adviser. The only problems found was not enough hard drive space (soon to be fixed with a new drive) and the driver for the wireless lan mini pci adapter iii.

Can the wireless adapter driver be installed using xp compatibility mode or otherwise forced to use the older driver as there are no w7 support and I doubt there will ever be?

Would I be destined to use an external device? Or abandon the idea completely?

[ozzymud]

Or use a different miniPCI card then fix the 1802 error (? if any ?)

see these links:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_w ... twork_card
(ThinkWiki article discussing the problem with using an unauthorized card with fixes)

http://www.command-tab.com/2006/02/26/t ... error-fix/
(website i found from google'ing "no-1802.com" as the link to it on ThinkWiki is dead/unresponsive - no-1802 reportedly works on the G40)



Also a thread here about 7 on a G40:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=85097

[blackrockburner]

Thanks, that helps a lot. I'm thinking that even if I don't go to win7, I could upgrade the card to g or even n.

On ebay the prices don't seem to to bad.

I boosted the ram to 2 gb and next is a 80 gig hard drive. so far so good.

[ajkula66]

The biggest bottleneck if you choose to upgrade to W7 will be the Intel integrated graphics on your G40...that are not supported by Vista or W7...

I'd stay with XP, but that's just me...

[automobus]

The biggest bottleneck if you choose to upgrade to W7 will be the Intel integrated graphics on your G40...that are not supported by Vista or W7.

You sure about that? Windows 6.0 has a driver for Intel 855, which, if I recall correctly, is also for the 852. You are right that Windows 6.1 does not have a driver.

[blackrockburner]

According to the windows7 adviser that I downloaded from M$ - the graphics card will work, it's just the AERO interface (whatever that is) won't work.

The problem is the internal wireless card is not compatible.

SO, with the choice of spending more on a laptop I got for $35 or replacing the wireless card along with buying W7, I think I will stick with XPP.

Thanks for all your input.

[automobus]

The card you have, IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Mini-PCI Adapter III, uses the same wireless chip as IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Mini-PCI Adapter with Modem. I have used the latter with Windows 7 and the driver for Windows XP. I think it could connect with no-authentication or WEP, but failed WPA. So I would expect the same from the card you have.

[blackrockburner]

I'll keep that in mind. But I thinking that the expense of getting w7 for this computer is just not worth it.

The new operating system would cost more than what I paid for the G40, two gb of ram and new had drive combined.