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    Dell XPS m1530 with XP x64

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Xevious64, Aug 26, 2008.

  1. Xevious64

    Xevious64 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I found the Ethernet drivers last night
    Now i am only missing one driver, Something called the sm bus controller
    If you know where the driver for this piece of hardware is please point me in the right direction.

    Heres a list of some essential drivers

    Wireless (intel wireless-n only)
    link

    Ethernet
    link

    Video Driver
    www.laptopvideo2go.com

    Audio
    link

    most other drivers can be found at the hardware manufacturer's website

    before installing XP x64 you need to disable the flash cache module and switch the hard drive mode from AHCI to ATA

    also the built in speakers don't work but headphones do. I think this is because i don't have the Sm bus driver

    this is my first post so if you tell me how ill post a screenshot :D

    NOTE: i am not responsible for any damage caused to your laptop

    EDIT    : dont use my audio driver use NuSuey's which can be found further down this page
     
    Xevious64, Aug 26, 2008
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    Just googled it and the sm bus controller is the intel chipset driver :)
     
    Xevious64, Aug 26, 2008
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    Found the sm bus driver
    Booted up and it works
    heres the link

    Intel Mobile Chipset driver
    link
     
    Xevious64, Aug 26, 2008
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    Funny, I manually installed the wifi drivers and then everything auto-installed through Windows Update except the biometric software. I also found manually updating ethernet drivers cured a conflict with my gigabit expresscard.
     
    neonkoala, Aug 28, 2008
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    I'm worried about switching to XP only because there can be some conflicts boot problems among other things that I don't want to deal with. Dell should really offer the Windows XP option.
     
    phaaam, Aug 28, 2008
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    you can find the fingerprint drivers here
    link
     
    Xevious64, Aug 29, 2008
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  7. NuSuey

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    got windows xp 64 with working webcam, sound, video, wifi..

    i didnt tried the fingerprint - and i didnt have the driver for the blootooth.

    but alltogether - its great it works ok :)

    found a little winxp64 pack from someone else - which helped me a lot..
    i can upload it somewhere.
     
    NuSuey, Aug 30, 2008
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    i really dont know if my webcam works so if you can tell me how you got your's working that would be great

    also do your speakers work?
     
    Xevious64, Aug 30, 2008
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    NuSuey, Aug 30, 2008
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    yes yes, i hope i uploaded the correct ones hehe
     
    NuSuey, Aug 31, 2008
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    :) My speakers work after installing your audio driver.

    rep for nusuey
     
    Xevious64, Aug 31, 2008
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    glad to help. did anybody found out, how to make the AHCI work for xp64?
    so i can use AHCI in bios and it wont make a blue screen in xp.
     
    NuSuey, Sep 1, 2008
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    You can find it on Intel's site
    Its called the intel storage matrix driver
    But you cant use the flash ram with XP anyway so why bother
     
    Xevious64, Sep 1, 2008
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    If you could upload it to megashare or rapidshare.com that would be fantastic.

    Thanks.
     
    Edtek, Sep 1, 2008
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    Edtek> what do you need from me to upload? i uploaded the sound + webcam drivers allready. or do you mean the whole pack ?
     
    NuSuey, Sep 1, 2008
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    The whole pack would be great, including the Dell 1505 Wireless N Drivers if you have them.

    I want to downgrade from Vista x64 to Windows XP Pro x64. There are just a few things about Windows Vista x64 that I don't like when it comes to compiling programs.

    Windows XP x64 worked perfectly in the past, so I would like to go back to that.

    Thanks for any help.
     
    Edtek, Sep 1, 2008
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    Ya vista suks lol :D
    Ill look for the dell wireless n drivers but i cant make promises

    EDIT: lol i googled it and found the wireless-n drivers
    link
    hope it helps :D
     
    Xevious64, Sep 1, 2008
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    Thanks.

    While I was waiting for your reply I thought I would try and find all the drivers myself, and I came across this page:

    Link

    I also found the Dell Wireless N drivers on the Dell site.

    Thanks for your help, and I am now just creating my unattended install CD. :)
     
    Edtek, Sep 1, 2008
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    Can you upload your entire driver pack to Rapidshare.

    I just spent close to 36 hours messing with drivers and all it does is crash.

    So I would like to start from scratch with drivers that someone else confirms working on their system.

    Thank you so much.
     
    Edtek, Sep 4, 2008
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  21. NuSuey

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    ok i thought you found what you need allready.

    i'll find my usb key and i'll try ..
     
    NuSuey, Sep 4, 2008
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    Ok here is an update:

    I got it all up and working thanks to (yes I know it is hard to believe) Dell technical support.

    A very nice guy there went WAY outside his nine dots to get me all the _correct_ drivers for the system. He even got Dell Quickset to install without a hitch.

    Here is the issue however. The system just feels slower than with Windows Vista installed.

    Do you think it would help to install the AHCI driver? I know I can't use the flash module, but would that driver possibly help speed things up?

    To have a slower system than I had before seems like a waste of the last 2.5 days :)
     
    Edtek, Sep 4, 2008
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    Where are the links which he gave you? or i didnt understand?

    you should maybe wait for me, im back from work and i'm gonna try upload some of the drivers
     
    NuSuey, Sep 5, 2008
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    I have it all up and running just fine now.

    He gave me all the drivers and I have them in a pack that I can upload to any service if you want to check them out.

    It is 227mb compressed with 7zip.

    [​IMG]

    I was able to slipstream all the drivers into an unattended install cd for Windows XP x64, and after the initial Windows setup, I only had to install the actual software for the finger print reader and the touchpad. Everything else was ready to go.
     
    Edtek, Sep 5, 2008
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    put it for example @ rapidshare or mediafire

    i'll try to upload my drivers too, but the upload speed drivers me nuts (at home).. and after some time it aborts the upload.. but anyway..
     
    NuSuey, Sep 5, 2008
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    edtek when can u upload that pack? =) and you say slower then vista?! =O i cant believe it.. lol, how's gaming compare to vista x64?
     
    kenv202, Sep 6, 2008
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    Actually in benchmarking the system with a node counter, Windows XP x64 was 1.2 million nps slower than Windows Vista x64. That is a serious difference.

    I am uploading the pack to megashare right now, and when it is done, I will post the link to the file.

    Also I don't use the laptop for gaming. In fact I am not much of a gamer at all. The only game I play, and rarely at that anymore is Counter-Strike. After 10 years playing it I got tired of the people that cheat and what not, and Steam does little to nothing to stop it. So I decided to pretty much stop playing all together.
     
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    lmao same reason why i stopped CS... =) i played since 1.5-->1.6 when they fixed the awp xD was fun though

    hm so u dont game.. im sad to hear so... im debating to switch to xp x64 or not.. cause new game i dled n tested r lagging like hell in vista x64.. u think xp x64 will do any betteR? and yes im using latest laptop2go driver (177.92 vista x64 )
     
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    What game is the problem? I would have to say that XP x64 is terrific for gaming, as I used it for years with Counter-Strike and never had a problem.

    I also find the 177.92 drivers slow, so I rolled back to the 177.83, and they perform much better.

    I had to restart the file upload as megashare had a problem with the file, so it is being uploaded to File Factory in 100MB chunks.

    Should be ready shortly.
     
    Edtek, Sep 6, 2008
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    so slow on dling =( so i guess u dont have all the dell dl links lolz
    and the site sucks (cause it is down...and speed is slow).. lol do u have like yahoo or aim u can just send to me? =P

    well what i really just need is the driver for Dell Wireless 1395 WLAN Mini-Card / Sound Card / usb or storage crap and that's about it the video driver i can grab off laptop2go.. i see any use for any other driver
     
    kenv202, Sep 6, 2008
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    I'm on live chat with Dell right now and the rep is telling me that Dell doesn't support 64 bit so they can't link me to any drivers.
    Now the rep is trying to convince me that the 32 bit drivers will work on both 64 & 32 bit! Funny stuff!!
     
    fiveo, Sep 7, 2008
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    oh, they have there some serious PRO'S :)

    oh, and i think im gonna try to upload the pack of drivers which i got.. just give me a hour or so..
     
    NuSuey, Sep 7, 2008
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    That would be great, I'm trying to download from the earlier link but it's so **** slow and I keep getting disconnected.
     
    fiveo, Sep 7, 2008
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    ok. i wanted to upload to rapidshare, but i must do it to mediafire, got rapidshare blocked from work.. too bad..
     
    NuSuey, Sep 7, 2008
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    can someone just link me to the driver for "Base System Device (there's 3 same name), SM Bus Controller?

    that's the only thing i got a ? in device manager (well and the biometric..which i dont use nor bluetooth..)

    other then that i got everything up n running =)
     
    kenv202, Sep 7, 2008
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    Im trying to post the links to drivers on another thread but it says i need 15 posta so ignore my next three posts
     
    Xevious64, Dec 1, 2008
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    Post 1
    i needed 10 characters
     
    Xevious64, Dec 1, 2008
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    Post 2
    i lied i only need 2 more posts
     
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    Hi I`ve managet to get everything working except fingerprint-The driver is working but can`t find the utility to use it :) there is also a plugin for firefox but don`t know how to use it.The main problem is that my T9300 works @ 1500mhz and dont know hao to install the tool that chooses power saving or high performance
     
    boricha, Dec 26, 2008
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  43. NuSuey

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    Anyone using it? Thinking about going back to the XP again :)
     
    NuSuey, Mar 1, 2009
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