1520 Drivers issue.

Question

I've recently bought a Dell 1520 Laptop, with XP professional installed.

I reinstalled the system when it arrived and quickly discovered I had done something foolish, and not checked the drivers CD they had sent with it......it was for Vista.

Anyway, I downloaded what I think are all the relevant drivers from the dell website and installed them onto the machine.

All seemed OK, excpet there are 3 exceptions in device manager of "Base System Devices" without any detail of what they are?????

Very puzzled by this as I've installed machines before and not had too much problem.

Any help greatly recieved.

bacillus · Answer

you need the driver for the card reader.

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R141246&SystemID=INS_PNT_PM_1520&servicetag=&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=13405&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=1&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=27&fileid=188377

Adamwest · Answer

bacillus,   firstly thanks for responding,   secondly - is that the xp or vista driver or is it generic??   Thanks.

Mary G · Answer

Don't overlook the Notebook System Software that should be installed first with the Chipset drivers. It's on your download page under System Utilities. You should also contact Dell and get the right drivers disk.

Adamwest · Answer

hi,

can't seem to get the hyperlink to work unfortunatley.

The card reader works already, though I'm not saying that it still doesn't need it.

Any chance you can repost the link or direct me an alternative way. Thanks for your help.

Any ideas on the other 2???

Adamwest · Answer

OK- thanks for the heads up Mary. I'll take a look at it now.

I've e-mailed about the drivers disk, so all being well, it should arrive sometime soon.

I managed to find the driver suggested previously and that has irradicated all 3 of the driver exceptions.

Thanks again for the help

Adamwest · Answer

in addition I've noticed that the modem driver is not installed.  Anyone point me in the right direction????   Thanks for all the help.

bacillus · Answer

the modem driver is here.
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R147115&SystemID=INS_PNT_PM_1520&servicetag=&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=13468&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=1&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=20&fileid=195675

bacillus · Answer

btw sorry about the initial link problem as it was due to an error on my part.

Windows General

1520 Drivers issue.

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