XP Drivers for XPS 13

Can some body help me with XP drivers for XPS 13.

Thanks

 

um...1330 or 1340? if its 1330 im going to punch you as there is already a thread about them

 

Hi,

I'm new around here, but I must say the only reason is that I have the same itching problem... I definitely need XPS 1340 drivers for Windows XP.
Yes, 1340 it is. Not 1330.
I think this laptop is being sold in the states as "Dell Studio XPS 13"

I've been working on this subject for about a week, since I received my 1340 but it seems like the problem is the Hybrid SLI technology which makes everything complicated.

I think our motherboard chipset is nVidia's MCP79 , MX if I'm not mistaken.

Although I failed to install all the needed mainboard drivers for this system, just once I could make (on of the) graphics cards work with an old nvidia MCP79 driver. Yes, the desktop went hi-res, and device manager seems to be happy to name one of the graphics cards "nVidia MCP79" but the machine crashed in a few minutes and I didn't like the idea of using only one of the graphics chips anyway.

So let's try and solve this problem together. Anybody who has more experience please help. I have been living with Vista for a week and it's already HELL !
My (poor, stolen) 3 years old Asus M5200 was a lot better both in performance, weight and battery life ! I would exchange this XPS 1340 with my old laptop any day if the thief was to be found.

Looking forward to installing XP on this machine.

 

Hey, iam looking drivers for XPS 1340.

 

As far as I know you can't use hybrid SLI in XP. You'll should be able to use one card or the other. I haven't heard of anyone running XP on the 1340 yet though so you'll probably be on your own getting everything to work. Windows 7 (beta) and Ubuntu I've seen, but not XP.

Vista should really perform as fast (with aero using the graphics card/superfetch etc) and have much the same battery life as XP on the 1340 though, if that's what you're trying to fix, plus startup is faster in Vista as well. If it's running slow you could have other problems.

 

I'm considering getting a Dell XPS 1340 and being able to run XP is an important matter.

On one hand, I can clearly see that it's not an easy task that can be completed by just visiting Dells support website, but on the other, Nitions post seems to indicate that it's not impossible either.

So... is it possible to get the thing running with some basic drivers (audio / video / essentials)?

 

Dell doesn't list XP drivers because they want their customers to use Vista.

 

this has already been accomplished on the 1640 search for that thread..

 

Why on earth do manufacturers enforce this upon users is a complete mystery to me. They already sell the hardware with Vista, so if a user wants XP he has to get it on his own; so why not just provide the drivers? I guess the standard reply is money and laziness.

Sorry, which thread? The main one regarding 1640s is miles long, so to speak. Especially since using the search function and searching for "Windows XP" is a little hard, with all the "XPS" being mentioned.

 

Hi Everybody,

after posting here, I didn't have much time to work on this subject, but here's what I can tell for now :

Yes, Hybrid SLI technology is NOT supported with Windows XP.

Well, although this was one primary reason why I chose XPS 1340, I cannot live with Vista any longer. I want my old software back, most important of all!
(These are the days I regret not buying a Lenovo T400, or even U330...)

Tonight, I have found a thread and I'm preparing to re-format my crippled Windows XP partition (did too many trial-and-errors) and try a clean XP installation with the guide in that thread:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=4646713

If this works, I'll be back to thank Stringman ! I'm downloading everything needed, and I'm hoping to have a fully running XP before sunrise.

I don't know about your locations, but the dell service in my country sucks big time, and they don't even know about Dell's offer about "downgraded operating system"... I think that offer isn't good for XPS 1340, though.

I'll keep you updated.
Back to work now.

 

Why doesn't Dell provide drivers for DOS and Windows 3.1 for me? I want to run DOS and Windows 3.1 -- Dell should spend the money because that's what I want. I also want to run Amiga OS on my XPS16, Dell should allow me to do that as well.

 

Please let us know how it worked, I want to downgrade my xps 1340 to a dual boot soonest. Thanks

 

doooood, win3.1 would run so fast, it would open programs before I clicked them. Dell/Microsoft need to get working on this pronto!

 

I noticed that Dell doesn't provide an IBM 5081 punch card slot on their current laptops. I have programs on punch cards which I can't even read on Vista! When is Dell planning to release support for punch cards?

 

It is good to see people with some sense and are willing to let an ancient OS go. Vista isn't bad, and if what you have heard about it is the only reason you don't want it, you should give it a try. If there really is some program incompatibility, then you need another computer or if the program doesn't require 3D acceleration you can run it in a virtual machine.

 

Dear "The Sailor"

please tell me that you succeeded in installing XP in dell studio xps1340.

I am getting crazy since one week. I am checking tons of web-sites, but I cannot find the drivers needed.

I also need to move on Windows XP as soon as possible, because most of my company tools, are not working on Vista.

Thank you for your help.

 

XP Drivers for DELL Studio XPS-1340​

** CAUTION **
Do not install any Vista drivers, Infrared Vista drivers etc. It seems to cause the XPS-1340 to stall when it goes into standby. And then you can't get it out of standby.
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It makes me very angry at how the Dell XPS 1340 has been deliberately "screwed" with, to make perfectly XP compatible hardware unfriendly to people who want to upgrade to XP from Vista.

After searching far and wide, it seems a lot of the time the only option for people to get their XP compatible hardware working with XP drivers, is to 1) modify the data in the driver .inf files to match the relevant "screwed up" hardware identifier code and 2) by-pass the installer for some drivers and just manually tell windows where they are, after you put in the correct Hardware identifier codes.

I am switching to Linux after this, and I will never, ever spend another dime on Microsoft nor Dell because of this b.s.

You should install the Sigmatel XP audio drivers first. You can download them here: http://sharebee.com/30c489b5 - 11.41 MB

NOTE: ! When the Sigmatel drivers are installing, you may get a pop-up menu in the background asking you to click continue. Focus on the main install window, and the other windows should progress on their own.

If you have the MCP79 nVidia chipset, make sure to install the XP drivers for the MCP79 chipset after the Sigmatel. These include the ethernet drivers etc
http://sharebee.com/b71a8b1c

Solution for XPS-13 (1340) nVidia XP drivers (9400M G).

You can download this NVAC.inf and copy it over the NVAC.inf in your Nvidia/display install directory. http://sharebee.com/5d313553 - 10K

When you click Setup.exe after copying the new NVAC.inf with the correct hardware identifier for the XPS-1340 GeForce 9400M VGA card, the setup should progress as a normal install should. As far as I can see, there should be no issue for multiple display adapters being used. SLI works just fine in XP.

Install the Bluetooth Mini-Card before WLAN Driver.

Dell Wireless 370 Bluetooth Mini-Card.rar - 94.52 MB
http://sharebee.com/03833f7b

The Wireless DW1515 XP driver was the biggest headache, nothing would work. But eventually I realised that the hardware is actually a Atheros 5211 Network Adapter and to install all you have to do is download this tiny driver file with a .inf file I modified for you and extract it to a folder:

DELL_DW1515_Atheros_AR5211_770406_XP.rar 412.69 KB
http://sharebee.com/86f6d69c

Open Device Manager, (Right-click My Computer and click Hardware tab and then the Device Manager button). There should be a Hardware with a yellow icon beside it called Network Controller.

Right click on this and choose Update Driver. Choose select from Specific Location and click "Include this location in the Search".
Browse to the folder where you extracted the DELL_DW1515_Atheros_AR5211_770406_XP.rar archive.

Click Next

Your Dell DW1515 Wireless card should now be functioning on XP. Open Network Connections in Control Panel to access wireless networks in range. It's that simple !

Other XP Drivers for Dell Studio XPS-1340

Ricoh Card Reader R5C833.rar - 2.9 MB
http://sharebee.com/41d852bc

Creative Labs Integrated Webcam.rar - 4.35 MB
http://sharebee.com/42fcfb25

Synaptics XP Drivers - 6.15 MB
http://sharebee.com/db9dff0a

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Do it yourself VGA driver instructions:​

#1 Download latest nVidia drivers for GeForce 9M series Notebook XP drivers

#2 (install 7zip) right-click on installer and extract files to a folder.

#3 in that folder, open the 'Display' subfolder

As of 2009.08.27 (the drivers I downloaded) 186.81 the .inf file needed to be modified is NVAC.INF

According to Drivershq.com the hardware code for nVidia GeForce 9400M G Notebook Graphics Adapter is
http://www.drivershq.com/Drivers/VistaDevices/Acer-NVIDIA-VGA-Driver/156174/Drivers.aspx

NVIDIA GEFORCE 9400M G [PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0866&SUBSYS_01601025]

IF your laptop has a 9400M G Graphics Adapter with just a different hardware code, you can open device-manager. (right-click my computer (XP) and click properties. Then click the Hardware 'tab' and open Device Manager from there. Browse to VGA Adapter and right-click on it and goto properties to find out what "hardware code" the guys decided to call it.

Then in NVAC.INF you find the line:

%NVIDIA_DEV.0866.01% = Section008, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0866&SUBSYS_01601025

and modify PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0866&SUBSYS_01601025 with whatever Hardware code your 9400M G Adapter is called.

Save the .INF file and when you click Setup.exe in the folder where you extracted the drivers to, it will magically SEE that you have a 9400M G Adapter and install the relevant XP drivers for your device.

This fix requires some1 competent enough to get the text identifier and paste it in the correct spot of NVAC.INF. if you don't feel up to it, make a ghost or something before you do it, in case you need to back-track. You do NOT need to install ANY Vista drivers to get XP nVidia drivers working on the Dell XPS-13 (1340) with the nVidia GeForce 9400M G graphics adapter.

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I sincerely hope that this information has saved someone the effort of dealing with the corporate b.s. of Dell and Microsoft !

Take care.

 

@above: very good for finding the drivers, but NVIDIA's don't need such a hassle:
nvidia.com->download drivers
chipset:->select nForce->7 series->730i or 9400/9300M->download
video:->select Geforce->9M series->9400M->download
This is the same if you have the 9500M GE (hybrid sli), but I'm not sure how it will handle the two cards...

PS: XP is old (and soon to be unsupported by MS), and it would be more logical for you to use the new stuff. If you really needed XP, you should have bought a laptop with that option (and there are plenty in the Latitude and Precision series...). The XPS 13 is a consumer notebook, and thus is shipped with Windows 7/Vista for a good reason!

 

Just 1 question, I can't install the Wireless DW1515 XP driver, it's say : Not found, on folder with your modified driver. Maybe it's because I do not have bluetooth in my studio xps 1340?

Thanks!

 

Bonjour, merci beaucoup pour ces drivers, cela marche bien mais j ai aussi un souci avec les drivers destiné au wifi, pour the Wireless DW1515 XP driver , est ce quelqu'un aurait une solution ?? merci d'avance

 

Hi splin & yoyo_axians,

I am sorry to hear you guys are having trouble. The XPS-13 laptop is shipped with different WLAN cards and it appears that you both must have a different WLAN card than the one my laptop has.

Its not made easy by Dell as their Vista / 7 drivers are deliberately encrypted so you can't easily access the driver .inf files to find out much about the hardware.

Even the name on the Card if you take it out of your laptop is deliberately misleading to what exactly the hardware is.

If you can decrypt the Vista / 7 drivers package and open the inf and find the string that matches your WLAN hardware identifier, it should be easy enough for you to discern what the WLAN hardware is and then you can download proper XP drivers.

I suggest you just install Linux Ubuntu and use QTEMU to install XP on a Virtual Machine in Linux.

The WLAN XP drivers have been downloaded 266 times at the time of this post and you are the only two guys to write about a problem..

Good luck !

ps:

I've looked into your problem.

IF you have installed Vista or other drivers for the card previously, it is possible that XP is auto-choosing those drivers from the WiNDOWS/inf directory.

Make a note of the WLAN device name in Device Manager.

If your WLAN comes up in Device Manager, one way to remove the driver so you can tell XP where the proper Atheros drivers are is to first right-click the WLAN in Device Manager and choose Uninstall

Search the WINDOWS/inf folder for files with a text string matching the WLAN's name from Device Manager.

You should find just one .inf file with that text-string inside it. Usually there is another file with the same name but with a .PNF extension.

Rename the .inf file to .inf.old and the .PNF file to .PNF.old so that Windows will not recognise them.

You will need to open Explorer (Start -> Run -> Explorer) or FLAG+E and change the Folder Options to "view hidden files", and to "view Extensions of Known Filetypes".

After renaming those two files, if you restart the computer, when Windows detects the WLAN device and cannot load the old .inf in WINDOWS/inf, it will ask you for the location of the drivers.

I have not tested this on the XPS-13 because I hadn't any problems and hadn't installed any other WLAN drivers, or Vista drivers.

This annoying quirk with XP is just something I've realised, that XP will continue to use a non-working driver if it thinks it is newer, even if you specify a working older time-stamped one. Pretty annoying, and one possible reason why your WLAN isn't working.

 

I had the same problem with my XPS13. The network adapter turned out to be a Broadcom 4322AG model. I found drivers on the HP website for it, then had to modify the inf to specify the one in my"driver details",
which was VEN_14E4&DEV_432B.