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    Inspiron B130

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by hankaaron57, Dec 10, 2008.

  1. hankaaron57

    hankaaron57 Go BIG or go HOME

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    Just opened my girlfriend's laptop, and saw that it had:

    CD/DVD Drive TSL462 ver. C

    PC2 4200S 4-4-4-12 latency RAM 1 512 MB stick

    Dell P/N 0C9063 WiFi Card


    I was wondering if someone could give me a link to updated drivers/firmware for the DVD drive and the Wifi Card. I already updated the Intel Chipset from the Intel website.

    Also, what is the best kind of RAM it will accept? I was thinking two 1GB sticks of pc2-5300, but I don't know if it'll accept that much? It is Dual channel memory, but it's only using one channel right now obviously. Any help is appreciated, as I need to get her computer in working order by Friday.
     
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    Thanks for the response about the RAM, but I already checked the Dell support page. I would like up-to-date drivers, not what Dell considers updated.
     
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    Fair enough but that model has been out of production for sometime. You would need to search for each driver individually.
     
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    I know, haha. The point of my thread was to get some help doing that, but I straightened everything out last night myself going to OEM sites (mostly Toshiba/Intel). I do need to know if the highest RAM it can support however is a 533 Mhz. 200 pin So-Dimm DDr2, however. PC2-4200? And the hard drive is a 2.5 inch IDE/ATA I assume?
     
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    Yeah that's the correct RAM, I've confirmed it with a few sites.
     
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    What about the hard drive? Anyone?
     
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    That's what I thought, Miller, thanks. Yes, I ask because I have no idea what the one in there is (some scumbag charged her hundreds of dollars to replace the old stock one with some garbage Toshiba drive when she brought it in 'cuz it was chugging, and it couldn't be faster than 4200 RPM) so I just wanna' drop another WD or Segate 60 GB 5400 RPM one in there since she only use 7 GB of space on it now anyways. XP Home Edition takes at least 4 minutes to boot up from power-on, and it has been formatted once already, and she's getting more RAM, so an upgrade is in order definitely.
     
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