Installing Windows XP on an Inspiron 13?

Hello all,

I recently purchased an Inspiron 1318 from Best Buy and while I love it so far, trying to play a few games has been an awful experience. Vista is pretty much useless when it comes to older games, even some games that were released about a year ago. What I would like to do is to dual boot into an XP partition just for playing games. I think my biggest problem will be finding drivers for this notebook that will work on xp. Any ideas? Also, I've never made a dual boot system before, though I have done plenty of installs and reformats.

 

Hi, do you have any new with this ?

I just ordered a 1318 thinking of getting XP on it as soon as it arrived, but i read your post and rush'd to the dell site and noticed there are official XP drivers for it.. Did you make it work? will other inspiron's drivers work for it?

 

The Inspiron 13 comes with a integrated Intel X3100 video card, that's why you have trouble with games. Switching from Vista to XP won't really help anything.

 

well i'm not trying to switch OS just for the gaming, it's for the overall experience

 

There are no official drivers for Inspiron 13, u must have confused it with inspiron 1300, which appears to be the old model.

So, has anyone at least tried installing Xp on this machine? If yes, could you describe the problems you faced along with what drivers you could find and what could not.

 

I'll try as soon as i get my 1318, and post the results, maybe it's really easy.

 

So, has anyone tried yet?

 

new intel wifi driver is out. Those who had issues with wifi might wanna try it.

 

I bought inspiron 1318. I couldn't got drivers for wireless network card and bluetooth.

i have got drivers for all other components.

has anyone installed xp on 1318? please help me to get driver

 

Can u specify your laptop's characteristics...
And what kind of wireless card do u have?

 

bluetooth BCM2045
network controller Dell wireless 1505

 

try this for wireless, it should work. http://support.dell.com/support/dow...-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=5&fileid=236819

try this for bluetooth, even though i am less confident that it is gonna work, but give it a shot
http://support.dell.com/support/dow...-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=5&fileid=216131

And report back please...

Also, did u have any problems installing XP? I mean did u have to mess with SATA drivers or did it work fine by just using an ordinary XP-cd? Or did u just install it by disabling SATA support?

Also, it would be nice of you if you could upload all the drivers you have somewhere like maybe rapidshare and post the link here, so that anyone else who wants to install xp wouldn't have to search for drivers.

P.S. your system specs would be nice to have here too.

 

not able to find driver for these two components

1..bluetooth BCM2045
2..network controller Dell wireless 1505.

 

Here are all drivers for INSPIRON 13 with Windows XP.
It includes working wifi driver. But there is no bluetooth driver since I don't have bluetooth on my laptop.
http://rapidshare.com/files/154950823/Inspiron_13_drivers.zip.html

 

Hi i just got finished creating a dual boot system on a 1318 and all went well but one thing. When i loaded xp i had to change sata setting in the bios to ATA to get xp to load. Now after everything is completed i cant switch back to AHCI. If I do when xp loads it reboots itself. Im thinking i might have to reload xp this time left in AHCI mode and figure out how to get xp to see a hard drive. The f6 floppy method if i had a floppy. Anyone have any clues. I really dont want to reload xp if at all possible.

 

Unfortunately, you will have to reinstall XP if you want it to run in AHCI. And the only way you could do it is by slippstreaming SATA driver in your XP CD. Google slipstreaming to get more info on that.

 

thanks for your reply, will i notice any difference in speed if i leave it in the ata mode?

 

i dont know, i guess there should be speed difference, but I don't think it will be be much. So, i think you can leave it in ATA mode

 

Hi! thank you for posting this information, it has been very helpful in allowing me to install XP on my new 1318, however I have a problem with the integrated webcam, would you happen to know of any driver I could use for it?
The specs of my laptop are as follows:

-- Inspiron 13 --
-- Intel® Core蒂 2 Duo T5850 (2.16GHz/667Mhz FSB/2MB cache)
-- [224-0514]
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-- System Color --
-- Pacific Blue
-- [330-0926]
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-- Memory --
-- 2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz
-- [311-8920]
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-- Display and Camera --
-- Glossy, widescreen 13.3" LCD (1280x800) w/ 2.0M pixel Camera
-- [320-6853]
-- [420-8223]
-- [420-8822]
-----------------------
-- Video Card --
-- Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
-- [320-6856]
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-- Hard Drives --
-- Size: 250GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
-- [341-7028]
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-- OPERATING SYSTEM(s) --
-- Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition SP1
-- [330-1016]
-- [420-5769]
-- [420-6436]
-- [420-6576]
-- [420-7622]
-- [420-8566]
-- [420-9100]
-- [420-9106]
-- [420-9128]
-- [463-2282]
-----------------------
-- TBU --
-- Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 9.0
-- [410-1883]
-----------------------
-- Combo or DVD+RW Drive --
-- 8X Slot Load CD / DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-RW Drive)
-- [313-6617]
-- [420-8183]
-- [420-9129]
-----------------------
-- Wireless Networking --
-- Dell Wireless 1395 802.11g Mini-Card
-- [430-2680]
-----------------------
-- Office Productivity Software (Pre-Installed) --
-- No Productivity software pre-installed
-- [412-1397]
-----------------------
-- Anti-Virus/Security Suite (Pre-installed) --
-- McAfee SecurityCenter with anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, 30-Days
-- [410-1160]
-----------------------
-- Primary Battery --
-- 37Whr Lithium Ion Battery (4 cell)
-- [312-0750]
-----------------------
-- Hardware Support Services --
-- 1Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty and Mail In Service
-- [950-9057]
-- [960-2780]
-- [989-0990]
-- [990-7989]
-- [991-0977]
-----------------------
-- Dial-Up Internet Access --
-- Earthlink Internet Access
-- [412-0933]
-- [412-0934]
-----------------------
-- Processor Branding --
-- Intel Core 2 Duo Label
-- [330-0717]
-----------------------
-- Labels --
-- Windows Vista蒂 Premium
-- [310-8628]
-----------------------

Thanks for the help.

 

Try this : Creative Labs Laptop Integrated Webcam.

Inspiron 1318 and Windows XP are listed under compatibility section.

P.S : I think Inspiron 13 uses same components as XPS M1310, here is a guide to installing XP on_M1330 (links for all the drives are included), I guess it should work for Inspiron 13 as well.

 

Thank you so much

 

hey,
I just received mine! finally!

got it running on that overbloated vista with no non-vista-problems so i decided to turn to the old xp ;P downloaded the drivers someone uploaded plus the bluetooth someone posted, everything works fine, batterylife is awesome, overall speed is perfect, i just love it

there is still one little detail bothering me.. the FN+F1 (moon) combination does not work, neither does the WIN+H for hybernate, i'll work on it a bit.

besides that it's greatness on laptop.

 

hey guys someone can help me step by step...how to instal xp on inspiron 1318. i just got mine and i don't know how to do it...thanks in advance

 

You put in your XP disk, restart, boot from disk, and install. Just follow the on-screen instructions, they're pretty self-explanatory.

 

Hey Mastershroom,
thanks for your quick reply , but i don't know if you what im talking about..have you tried install xp on inspiron1318 before?..you can't because the bios set up on this computer does not regonize the ANY opering system under vista...its the new HD sata basically...and you have to mess with the bios of the computer in order to instal the Xp OS...but thanks again for the reply

 

Yeah dude, it happens with each laptop with Vista. You have to go into your bios and I believe you have to disable AHCI or something like that.

 

hey maxima , that's what im talking about ...but i don't know how to acess the bios of my lap top and how and what to disable in order to instal xp on it. thanks

 

but i don't know to acess my bios / and /or disable whatever ...in order to instal my xp....heeelllp please..

 

When u start your computer press F12 and shoose Bios settings from the menu. When you are in BIOS go to somewhere like hardware components and choose hard drive. In the hard drive options you can choose between ATA and AHCI. Choose ATA instead of AHCI.

Read this tutorial on dell xps m1330. It is very similiar to inspiron 13, and it might help you to understand what to do what installing xp:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=153941

 

Yeah. I actually just installed XP on my inspiron 1525. Like iceman said, you have to chose ATA instead of AHCI and you should be good to go.

 

ok guys thanks for the help ...i will try and i will let you know the results...thanks again

 

Hey, I'm just about to embark on this same downgrade. Any lessons learned, driver corrections, or new info?

 

does anyone have another link to the drivers besides Iceman?? The rapidshare link is not working for me.

 

For those who might be having Dell wireless 1395 driver issues:
1) download the correct driver http://support.dell.com/support/down...&fileid=236819 (thanks Iceman).
2) after extra the zip file, goto the folder and delete Dellinfo.exe and Dellinfo64.exe
3) Wham... It'll install.

 

Anyone have the correct audio driver for Inspiron 13? I've googled for two days with no luck. IDT bought SigmaTel but I think I need IDT High Definition audio driver.

Also, anyone figure out the Base System device problem? I got three of them under other drivers.


thanks for your help

 

You may download R153908@ size:7.96MB for the audio, it worked for my Dell 1318.

 

I just installed XP on my Inspiron 1318...all of the drivers have worked except for the wireless driver. I says no compatible hardware found. what do i do now?
thanks

 

sorry to bring an old thread back to life, but this was very helpful for my wife's new 1318.
XP bluetooth driver can be found here (confirmed working)
http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R127314.EXE

This was the post i used, just add my BT link (if needed)

For some reason, rapidshare was really failing as a free user (took over 2 hours with odd download speed changes) but worth it if you want XP (and you DO!)