m17Xr3 - driver issues

Hi, I just purchased a new m17Xr3. Yester day i purchased a crucial M4 128G SSD and I tried installing it. Came across number of issues.

I reformatted the original HDD(320G) and placed in on slot one. I put the crucial m4 on slot 0 and tried installing windows7.

it installed windows 7 but I am unable to install some drivers.
I can't use any USB's my comp won't recognize it and in the source CD that came with my comp, doesnt' have the USB 3.0 driver. So I wanted to go online but then the source CD also doesn't have the driver for my 802.11 g/n so I can't connect to internet wirelessly(don't have the option to use cable). I can't tether with my iphone cuz the USB port doesn't work. Is there a solution to this?

thanks in advance.


Specs: m17Xr3
Intel Core i7-2760QM 2.4GHz
8GB DualCh DDR3 1600MHz 4DIM
2GB GDDR5 AMD HD 6990M M17x3R
primary SSD: crucial M4 128GB SSD
320GB 7,200RPM SATA-II HDD
Win 7 Home Prem 64 SP1,Eng,w/Media,AWNB
Wireless 802.11 g/n

 

when you say source cd...are you talking about the windows 7 dvd or the driver cd? I had all the drivers that i needed in the included driver cd

i would suggest reinstalling your M4 into slot 1 and the HDD into slot 0. SLot 1 is in the middle of the computer and runs sata 3 while slot 0 is inconsistent, fluctuating between sata 2 - 3

 

hey thanks for the quick reply.

the driver cd. for some odd reason, i don't have the driver for 3.0 USB and 802.11 g/n.

I first put the windows CD to install windows7. then once install,ed i put the driver CD.

I didn't know that slot 0 runs sta 2-3 but i dont know if that'll resolve the driver issue...

 

well...here's the wireless driver:

http://support.dell.com/support/dow...bIndex=&scanSupported=False&scanConsent=False

and no, reinstalling your ssd to port1 will not solve your driver issue, but it will guarantee sata 3 performance

 

thanks for the link...im actully tehre but the problem is that i can't access that from my computer cuz the wireless doesn't work. ironic eh...

and USB doesnt work so even if i download it form a diff comp, i can't trasnfer it via usb...!

 

burn it to a cd?

 

I'll definitely try that. thanks!

on a second thought. I realised i used alienrespawn (on my HDD)and made a facotry status disk?. will that work on SSD? if i can get alienspawn on my ssd?