1420 With Windows XP (that is, I nerfed Vista)

My 1420 is working fine with XP now but I left mediadirect and quickset dun work. Anyone can help me on these issues?

 

Do you mind sticking to one thread instead of cross-posting? You're likely to get less help if you abuse the forum.

To address your question .. what is the actual issue? Quickset doesn't work? Read both of the threads that you spammed .. it's been covered and the conclusion is that no-one has a fix for it.

 

Hello all im one of the lost souls trying to upgrade to XP from vista home. Im sorry im such a newb but how did you burn the bootable disc? I think i got the nlite part right! Can you go a little more detailed on the first installation steps. I burned 2 CDs(neither worked) one direct from nlite and one from nero as a data cd. Damn microsoft for putting us all thru this mess. Dont they know people will always figure a way of getting it done? Why not make it easy and spare us the headache?

 

good day, it has been 2 day for me to install xp on my new Laptop Dell 1420. Vista no reliable.

But i am having trouble with the drivers, i got one pci device not installed, and my audio drivers too.. did like what u wrote through our experience but to much avail..
Hope that you cound help me?

 

Someone has reported the new XP Quickset (A047 from 8/23/07) for Vostro 1000 works in Vostro 1400. It should also work in Inspiron 1420.

 

Have confirmed that the R165094.EXE Quickset works on a 1420 running XP.

Note: At this point, I think I have everything running under XP/Vista (dual boot). This was my last issue.

All of the following issues referenced by the OP should now be addressed:

1) Figure out how to get the MediaDirect button to launch the MediaDirect software while in Windows
2) Get the Wi-Fi Catcher working.
3) Get Dell QuickSet working (which may solve #2)
4) Audio drivers for the modem.

Thanks,
LQ

 

I'm not sure how you were able to resolve the MediaDirect issue. I assume from your original post that if I leave the partition containing MD intact when installing XP, the program will work off-line. However, I'm not entirely clear what you did to get it to work when in Windows?

Thanks!

 

Hi Guys,
What about speedstep now ? I have installed all drivers, everything on my inspiron 1420 to have XP, but.... notebook hardware control that I installed shows still same CPU speed and it is only 1,8 Ghz . maximum speedstep.

Anything I tried, didnt work, and CPU is hot. Speedstep doesnt work. Even if I set up not to use speedstep in bios, to leave it on slowest speedstep (1,2Ghz) it is still in system in 1,8 Ghz.

Help please ...

 

the same weird thing. any ideas how to solve it?

and the most weird thing thad Notebook Hardware Control software doesn't work (even dell edition with core 2 duo patch). ir runs actually but doesn't reduce CPU clock and doesn't show voltage etc

i have T5250 1.5 GHz

 

Successfully installed the Intel GM965 Video drivers in SAFE MODE!
Finally....
After much frustration and being told my hardware didn't support this latest driver win2k_xp14311.exe from intel, package 39736
Working beautifully
Also installed the sigmatel driver in SAFE MODE

And to heck with that modem on hi def (disabled)
Thanks to all of you for your postings. I thought I was fighting alone...

 

I went through the entire thread and here are my issues with the Inspiron 1420. I received the laptop last week and it had A02 BIOS. Here are the steps I followed. My hard disk is 7200 RPM disk.

- XP SP2 CD could not detect the hard disk.
- Slipstream method crashed on me during the detection of HDD.
- Changed the HDD to ATA from AHCI and installed XP successfully. I could install various drivers also from the thread.
- Now when I want to change the HDD back to AHCI, I am getting BSOD. I downloaded the latest drivers from DELL's site and the setup does not like the system and says it does not meet minimum requirements.
- I extracted the drivers out from the setup using -A option. They match the drivers available on various threads. I manually changed the various drivers but as soon as I reboot with/without changing to AHCI, it BSODs. I have to go back to last known good configuration and ATA.
- Updated the BIOS to A03 and still no resolution.

Please help.

Thanks.

 

Everyone. Ok I've got my XP installed and all drivers working except bluetooth. Bluetooth requires that I enable the device before installing. Unfortunitly the switch doesn't do anything at all. Even when machine is off hitting it doesn't enable the wi-fi catcher. Everything is turned on in BIOS for this. If I install the quickset software the switch will popup the software, but it NEVER turns on\off the actual hardware. Originally WiFi was disabled and when i installed the drivers the light magically turned on. Device manager doesn't report any missing devices and doesn't show the bluetooth hardware.

On original vista, bluetooth was enabled and installed the drivers, but the switch still didn't turn it on\off if i wanted to disable wireless or bluetooth I needed to do it through device manager.

Help! Dell support seems clueless. I think I have the onsite tech support for 2 years, should I just yell at dell and tell them to come fix the switch so I can turn the devices on and off? I'm thinking it's the switch to hardware connection because when laptop is off i hit the switch and it never flickers searching for the catcher for devices\wireless.


ASharam, I looked up some details on the AHCI and I just found reports of tests done that determined that having AHCI didn't grant any noticable increase of HD speed. So I kept it disabled.

 

Anyone on this? My bluetooth is still dead...

 

Someone said you can install the AHCI driver, shut down, switch to AHCI and reboot. I have not tried that since my slipstream works.

 

Uninstall any BT driver. Turn off BT in BIOS. Install the driver (I use the Anycom USB 200/250 driver for Dell BT 355). Shut down the computer. Turn on the BT and reboot.

 

Hey I got quickset working but wireless still won't connect, I started a new thread on it as this one is old but hey, it's worth a shot! I have the intel ABGN card.

 

A quick aside: nLite can create a bootable XP disk. When I reinstalled XP on my SATA desktop HDD it took all of 5 minutes to slipstream the RAID drivers and burn the new XP install to CD. (You can slipstream the other drivers also, to save time).

 

What site?