TOTAL GUIDE: 1420 With XP!!!

Lightflux - u rock! Saved me a bunch of time and trouble, and my 1700 is up and running on XP!

I haven't read all the posts in this thread yet, but while I had zero problems with the audio drivers (there is a new one on Dell's site - posted 6/08), I did have the USB problem - USB worked great until I loaded the chipset drivers, then nothing...

Fix was easy, though - just Uninstalled all USB controllers, then rebooted - and XP found and installed everything correctly.

It is probably gonna take me longer to load all my programs than it did to put XP on it...can't wait to get my stuff running!

 

Just bought a Dell 1420 Refurb from the mothership. Should be arriving tomorrow. I will definitely be using this guide for my XP

Thanks OP!

 

I can never be thankful enough. I had quite a few issues- With my graphics card, wireless and USB....But various posts in this thread helped me out. So though it took me 3 times the amount of time as promised, i got there....Wireless works, graphics card works, USBs work. Have not tried MD and the card reader yet....but those are ok i guess....

Thanks Guys

 

Hello,
My laptop said there were updates and asked me to restart it. I did so, but after the XP Loading screen, i got a complete blank screen. Only the arrow was working! I had to reinstall XP...... Any clues?

Wasim

 

please some tutorial for installing win XP on my dell inspiron 1525 with vista. thanks

 

I know this is a very old thread. But can anyone tell me where to get the SATA drivers. When I try getting them from Dell it doesn't work. HELP! I hate Vista !

 

Okay, I have followed these directions to the "T". Infact I have done it 3 times. As soon as the new Xp disk is put in I get a message telling me there is a compatabilty issue because i am trying to install an old version over a new one. Anybody else had these problems? If so how did you fix it?

 

Okay. Ignore the other questions. I figured them out. Now I need info. on the webcam. It won't work. It starts to open then says I need the newest Direct X. I have tried this & it still says the same same thing.Any ideas?

 

Okay. Got the webcam going as well. However, I can't get the dvd to work properly. It will play about any disk I put in with the excpetion of a dvd. It will not autorun. Any ideas on this one?

 

while installing my bluetooth software in my inspiron 1420 with Xp , it asking to press Fn+F2 keys to activate my bluetooth.....but there is no effect while i pressing those buttons........

please help me out......

 

I already had this laptop for more than two years, but I was attacked by a virus and now I decided it would be nice to take the machine's advantages to its fullest by formatting old crappy Vista and installing XP instead.

A couple of issues:
The current link to the driver for the Wi-Fi is broken. Here it is:
http://support.dell.com/support/dow...-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=5&fileid=233125

The original list doesn't include the driver for the generic video card of the Inspiron 1420 (I mean, the one that's included to us who did not buy the NVidia card with the laptop). Here it is (and I tell you it was quite hard to find online):
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=17353&ProdId=2800&lang=eng

I know this is so old, but in case you ever get to read this, download this:
http://support.us.dell.com/support/...eid=R159805&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=213714