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[Rob]

Have recently binned off vista for favour of XP due to it using a SILLY amount of RAM, and have used dells website to put all the drivers back so that i have wireless, and everything is working, but one thing....

Having some serious resolution problems, cannot install the graphics card, although i have the correct driver it just won't install. I have showed all the error messages etc, can any CS miracle workers help?

Its a dell Inspiron 1545, with a Mobile Intel(R) 4 series.

 

[DMS]

Try doing Microsoft Update instead - it might be that Dell have the wrong driver listed for your laptop. I've known that to be the case before.
Go to http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate and choose to do a custom installation.
Under "Device Drivers" it will list any updated drivers that it can find for your computer.
It's completely automated. You don't need to tell it what make and model computer you have or anything like that.

 

[Mike_182]

Epic OS understanding fail.

Windows Vista uses more RAM because it puts more stuff in there, making applications load quicker. When my new machine (24GB DDR3/5GHz Q.C.) arrives, it'll be immensely quick because EVERYTHING will fit in RAM.

They took their understanding of memory allocation with SQL and applied it to an OS, and with fairly good success.

 

[PinkoCommie]

Try this: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=2996

 

[Mike_182]

Oh godz, I've got no RAMZ.

Oh wait, no, that cached figure tells me how much is allocated temporarily for applications to run quicker, that can be offloaded very quickly should the system need to.

 

[Rob]

Trust me, vista = epic fail, my old toshiba laptop on XP runs faster, i dont care about the facts and figures, i just care about the physical usability (and the god awful general interface of vista)

I'll try the suggestions though, thanks.

 

[Rob]

PinkoCommie, i have tried that already and just gives me the same message?

 

[iain187]

Oh godz, I've got no RAMZ.

Oh wait, no, that cached figure tells me how much is allocated temporarily for applications to run quicker, that can be offloaded very quickly should the system need to.

there was no point in posting that, because you have 2 categories of people who will read it, 1) those who don't understand, and will just ignore it, because it is not relevant to the problem what so ever. and 2) Those who do understand it, already knew.



anywho to fix your problem, you should be able to find a sticker on the case that says service tag or something along those lines, you can put the service tag number into the dell site and it should provide you with what you need, unless that is what you did??

 

[Rob]

Yeah i did that at the start, but the driver it was recomending just wasnt working. Finally sorted the resolution now, it turned out to need service pack three for it to register the graphics card. Oh the fun!

Anyways, since installing service pack 3 i have another problem, a bigger one that last time, none of my USB ports work, and i have lost the screen which notify's me if something is copying or moving? Any suggestions here, on the device manager, "usb root hub" has an exclamation point by it, but it did earlier and still worked. God damn pc's!

Thanks for the help so far

 

[PinkoCommie]

Get updated drivers for your USB

 

[iain187]

Yeah i did that at the start, but the driver it was recomending just wasnt working. Finally sorted the resolution now, it turned out to need service pack three for it to register the graphics card. Oh the fun!

Anyways, since installing service pack 3 i have another problem, a bigger one that last time, none of my USB ports work, and i have lost the screen which notify's me if something is copying or moving? Any suggestions here, on the device manager, "usb root hub" has an exclamation point by it, but it did earlier and still worked. God damn pc's!

Thanks for the help so far

even tho you have updated to SP3, can you still go on windows update and see if there are more updates? might be lucky and fix some stuff.

 

[Mike_182]

Intel Chipset drivers. Your chipset wasn't really designed with XP in mind so might be more difficult to get it to work.

 

[Rob]

All sorted now, not sure what happened with the USB's, just had to manually find the original driver in the system32 folder and that sorted itself, and then as if by magic the "copy" box came back!

Intel have actually relesead a driver for XP for my chipset and all seems to work well, dell listed it on their website, but it was just because my version of windows XP didnt have SP3 it didnt wanna work.

Thanks everyone for all the help, i am one happy, back to the old school motherf**ker.