Vostro 1720 BSOD after MED Card Driver

Good Morning all.

We were using Vostro 1710's for a long time but now all that we can get is the 1720. When we are downgrading from Vista to XP everything goes smooth until we do the Media Card Driver. Once we do that the OS starts getting buggy and puts up a BSOD. Has anyone else had this happen to them? If we disable to Media Card Reader in the bios the problem goes away.

The driver that we are using is from dell and should work fine. Any Ideas?

 

Try installing said driver first, right after a clean install? Try using the relevant Vista driver? I had issues on two previous laptops where a driver would only work if it was installed first and where a Vista driver was the only thing that worked on an XP machine.

That being said, why not keep buying the 1710 from the Outlet or something?

 

I will try that, our customers want new only, not outlet. The 1710 were great. I am going to try a clean install and then install that driver first and see what happens. Maybe it will work. I'll let you know.

 

What was found was that the Media Card driver for the Vostro **20 Series that was provided by dell was faulty. We ended up using the driver for a Inspirion 1320 driver and that resolved our issue so far.