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Inspiron 1525 XP Drivers
I'm looking to purchase a new laptop and have settled on the Inspiron 1525, but I do not want Vista at all. I have an XP Pro disc with a good license key, but I want to know if there are drivers available for the video, sound, network and optical systems. Anyone have any ideas?
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Posted January 24th, 2008 07:00
HiI just did it. Killed the orig. Vista Home Premium installation (which is slow and quite unstable) and installed XP Pro SP2.All drivers are available for XP, searching and installing didn't take more than 20 minutes.The best thing to do is run the preinstalled vista first an visit this website:h**P://driveragent.comScan your machine and print out the document with exact names of all devices.Install XP and download suitable XP drivers - there are excellent ones for each device, using google, etc... for searchInstallation order:1) Install Chipsetdriver2) Install Marvel-Yukon Ethernet driver3) install Microsoft High Definition Audio Driver4) go to Devicemanager, there is one "!" at a PCI Device - automatically search and install driver.5) Install Grafics driver6) ...Install the HDMI Driver manually (force devicemanager to use the driver)The XP Installation is very quick and stable!!Kind regardsBionicPS.:Unbelievabel! I had to take out my emailadress for "further" instructions. No Problem with helping people, but I get at least 20 emails a day from people who don't read these instructions - and it even takes a lot of time to tell them "Read da f****** posting!"As I have lots of other things to do, I will not provide assitance via email anymore - sryMessage Edited by Bionicconner on 03-14-2008 10:44 AMMessage Edited by Bionicconner on 03-14-2008 10:44 AMMessage Edited by Bionicconner on 03-14-2008 10:45 AMMessage Edited by Bionicconner on 03-14-2008 10:46 AMBionicconner
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Posted January 25th, 2008 10:00
hi markio,are you sure that you followed these two steps:
3) install Microsoft High Definition Audio Driver4) go to Devicemanager, there is one "!" at a PCI Device - automatically search and install drivermay be you didn't install the Microsoft UAA Driver. It is not possible to install the audio driver without correct installation of the UAA !!In case you you don't have the correct drivers, use this link:careful -> it is about 200MB and contains all XP drivers for 1525Dell InspironI edited this file again. You find a scan from the device manager as pdf file and I unpacked the HDMI driver - easy now to install this thing manually (don't use the setup.exe) can be found in \Inspiron1525\Drivers\HDMI_Driver\HDMI\hope that helps.Kind regardsBionic
Message Edited by Bionicconner on 01-29-2008 10:43 AMMessage Edited by Bionicconner on 03-14-2008 10:46 AMBionicconner
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Posted January 28th, 2008 04:00
Hi Pingeye,sure you don't see the Harddrive...it is an SATA drive, that is not directly supported by Windows XP.1) The easiest way is to change the settings in BIOS from AHCI/SATA to legacy/IDE. I don't know exactly, what they write in the BIOS, but it looks somehow as AHCI/SATA...if this is set to legacy the HDD is visible to windows.Whe windows is installed, install the Intel driver manually, then change the settings in BIOS again to SATA.2) The other possibility is to create a XP CD that contains the Intel IHC8 Driver. This is the "cool way" to do it but it's a bit more sophisticated. It can be done manually or with special programs e.g. nlite ( http://www.nliteos.com/).3) If you have an external FDD 3,5'' USB Drive, this can be used to insert the SATA driver during XP installation by pressing "F6" when asked for.Hope that helps,CUbionicMessage Edited by Bionicconner on 03-14-2008 10:47 AMBionicconner
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Posted January 28th, 2008 09:00
Hi Hachtl,please make a screenshot from devicemanager and send it as email attachment or post it here in the forum. I need to see, what devices are missing.Kind regardsBionicPS.: A printout (screenshot or pdf) from the http://driveragent.com would be helpful for me as well. The scan is free.
Message Edited by Bionicconner on 01-28-2008 01:08 PM- Hi,
I've done also everything, you've described. For the first glance it looks everything okay. But after a Reboot, the video driver won't work. The resolution is only 640x480. Inside the Devicemanager everything looks great. So I tried to uninstall the drivers and voila: The resolution is back with 1280x800 ... It'll work now, but inside the device manager I've got thos two nasty yellow question marks of unknow devices ...
I've also tried to download the latest driver from intel, but no change ...
Does anybody have a clue?
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hachtl - Hi,
I've searched a bit at intel's homepage, and found a newer driver one, which now works. The link ist here: http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-028366.htm
Now the graphic cards works fine, but I've got another problem :-(( No I cannot do a Network connection. I've searched sone things and found at services, that all network related services are not up ... strange thing, both fixed network and wifi won't work anymore ... crazy thing ...
cya
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Posted January 24th, 2008 05:00
Also be aware that the 1525 appears to be a fine system for just general office usage (Word, web browsing, etc.), but would be terrible for some other usages, such as gaming, CAD, etc. The 1520 is overall a higher end system.