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Latitude C600 Audio Problems
Ok heres the story I hope someone can help cus I've pulled all the hair out of my head trying to figure this one out. I just got this Latitude C600 it had windows 2000 on it and all the drivers were installed and worked fine including the audio. I figured well heck I could slap XP on this machine that would be great. Wrong I format the drive and get half way through the xp install to installing devices and it locks up on me. I thought thats mighty strange and tried again locked up. So I reinstall a copy of w2k with sp3 it works but now when I try to install the drivers for the audio it locks up before it ever reaches the logon screen and I have to reboot it into safe mode and unstall the drivers for it to work properly. I've tried the older drivers, resetting the bios to default, flashing the bios, running windows update, all to the same result locked up windows I have no idea what is wrong with this thing. if anyone has any ideas that would be great.
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Walt
- I would reformat the drive fat32 and get it booting.
I would then copy the entire cd for 2000 or XP onto it.
The way to do this is to boot a Live linux distro like puppy linux and mount the drive then copy the install over to c:
With it booting C: you would include himem.sys and emm386.exe and smartdrv.exe then run
the WINNT.EXE file from C:\I386
This eliminates the cdrom not reading the disk being the error.
Under normal circumstances installing 2000 or XP onto a C600 can be done via
booting the cd. However it appears you hang before this is completed due to failure of
memory, harddrive, or cdrom media.
Flooby
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Posted May 30th, 2006 09:00
Either of those operating systems should work fine on a C600. XP works very well, and you don't have to install diddly in the way of drivers, because the video, audio and a variety of other things are all native to XP. Are you disconnecting any peripherals prior to installing the OS? This should include any USB devices, external drives, PCMCIA cards, etc. XP should recognize most run-of-the-mill PCMCIA network cards and modems, and a PS-2 mouse is no problem, but if you have anything exotic attached/instaled, that might be the problem.
You might also want to review the documentation for that model and download/run the Dell Diagnostics to test the hardware, which can be done without having an OS installed. I'd recommend going with the 5 floppy diskette version of the Diags. Also, when you flashed the BIOS, did you install the most recent version? If not, I'd suggest doing so.
Lat C600 Documentation
Dell Diagnostics