Comments on: MSI GT735 Notebook and Windows 7 64-bit

By: JR

JR — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:29:10 +0000

They absolutely do have 64 bit drivers for Vista on their website. They just come bundled with the 32 bit drivers. So download the 32 bit drivers and after extracting you should see the x64 folder.

By: John

John — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:09:55 +0000

Is there any chance you could host these 64-bit drivers? I used a new disk for my Win 7 install but my old disk does NOT have the recovery partition and thus does not have the drivers.

By: David

David — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:28:42 +0000

I have 64x bit windows 7 OS installed on my gt735. Everything seems to work except the HDMI output has stopped working no picture or sound. however the PC does see the TV as a device when connected. Any ideas

Thanks!

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:35:26 +0000

Thanks for posting this information. It was a great aid in my Windows 7 installation.

By: John

John — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:12:26 +0000

Hey, thanks so much for the great guide. You averted many potentially frustrating hours!!

By: Michael Helfrich

Michael Helfrich — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:57:57 +0000

I have a question have you tried running Windows 7 32 bit with the Vista 32 bit drivers? I am about to purchase Windows 7 and do a fresh install of it but I wanted to see if the Vista 32 bit drivers have any issues with Windows 7.

By: Matt Gadient

Matt Gadient — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:43:58 +0000

Orlando:

As to clarifying the 32-bit to 64-bit, you should be able to. That said, it’s one of those “just because it worked for me is no guarantee it’ll work for you” sort of things. If MSI changes just 1 piece of hardware slightly and doesn’t include the right 64-bit driver… well there’s really no way of really knowing for sure until you try unfortunately. If you want to be certain before giving it the attempt, you might want to try leaving a message on MSI’s forum, and hopefully you can get a concrete answer (or at least some input from others who have done it).

In regards to the upgrade version allowing you to re-partition, I’m not sure. I used the full version for the install and haven’t tried out the upgrade version on anything yet (actually I don’t remember the upgrade version being on Technet unless I missed it). Hopefully someone who knows for certain will post, or again you could try the MSI forums.

Best of luck!

By: Orlando

Orlando — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:17:50 +0000

Matt,

Thanks for the reply. I just want to clarify that I can go from the Vista 32 bit to a 64 bit Windows 7. Also, does the upgrade give you an option of redoing the partitions? I don’t like the way MSI did the GT735 ones.

By: Matt Gadient

Matt Gadient — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:09:57 +0000

Orlando:

It’s been a little while, so I don’t remember exactly which drivers took care of which unknown devices. However, it’s very common for one driver to take care of multiple unknown devices (for example, 2 unknown devices may both be related to different aspects of the audio, and the audio folder may take care of both of them).

I was able to take care of all the unknown devices with the process in the write-up, so I assume that was the case.

If you end up with unknown devices in the end though, please leave another comment – sometimes a manufacturer makes changes to the CD’s they send, or uses slightly different hardware as they make revisions to the notebook.

By: Orlando

Orlando — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:50:32 +0000

Great guide! I just have a question. You mention to browse for all the unknown devices and whatnot, but the vista32 folder only has driver folders for 8 different devices. How will that be enough for all the devices?