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February 4th, 2014 19:00
Upgrading Inspiron 1520 from XP to Windows 8
My old Inspiron 1520 seems as if it should be able to be upgraded to Windows 8. The only issue it appears I am going to have is with my graphics card.
My computer has the Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset Family. Does anyone have any experience with that and Windows 8? I definitely have a fast enough processor, plenty of RAM and hard drive space, so it really seems to be the graphic card that is the only sticking point.
My computer works perfectly fine, so it seems like such a waste to buy a brand new one when XP is no longer supported in April.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks so much for your help and insight!
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ejn63
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February 5th, 2014 08:00
The Windows 7 drivers may work for Windows 8 -- that said, you'd be better off with Windows 7 on this system, which cannot really take advantage of the advances in Windows 8 anyway.
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February 6th, 2014 11:00
The Windows 7 drivers will work fine for the graphics card it did for the 945 on several of my systems. Get the latest release from Intel after clean installing Windows 8.1.
http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/driver-sets/inspiron-laptops-windows-7/
Use these drivers ignoring Dell System Software and OS Updates.