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    Vista Drivers for Inspiron 6000

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by JellyGeo, Mar 19, 2009.

  1. JellyGeo

    JellyGeo Notebook Evangelist

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    Greetings - a friend of mine has an Inspiron 6000 and he has found a cheap copy of Vista HP. I told him I would try to load it for him (on a new HDD) if I could find the drivers. I've found most of the drivers except for the all-important chipset. Does anyone know of a source/have a link for the Vista chipset driver for the Inspiron 6000? Thanks in advance!
     
    JellyGeo, Mar 19, 2009
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    The Chipset drivers should install automagically, along with most of the other drivers as long as you are connected to the interweb, thanks to vista

    but if it is an intel chipset, you will need the SMBus drivers, easy to find on google
     
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    Tinselworm - Thanks for your quick reply - it has an Intel 915PM chipset - and Intel doesn't offer a Vista driver for it. I feel bad about this because I (foolishly) told him Vista should install just fine - before I did my research... :(
     
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    Have you tried installing it anyway?
     
    Tinselworm, Mar 19, 2009
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    TW - no - he wants to keep the original (80-Gb) HDD - so he's ordered another from the Egg. Its due here this coming TUE or WED... Plus its his only laptop (poor fool) so he's out of commission while I'm reloading it so he wants to wait til the drive is here.
     
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    I used to have an Inspiron 6000 and installed Vista just fine but I thought it was a bit slow so didn't keep it. I think Vista already knows the chipset, check in System devices in Device Manager to be sure. If not, download infinst_autol.exe from Intel and that has it.
     
    steeviebops, Mar 21, 2009
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    Steevie - Thanks for the info. The HDD still hasn't arrived from NewEgg - so I don't have his 6000 yet. I'm hoping to keep it for two days so I can load a spare IDE drive for my daughter's (AUG 2005) 6000. Her system is almost four years old - used every day - and still running!!
     
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    Gentlemen - Thank-you for your input. Just as a follow-up - Vista SP1 installed very smoothly and picked up everything (including Bluetooth!) except for audio. I had seen comments on NBR about mic/headset issues in Vista but the Dell XP audio drivers (R99254) worked charmfully. I also upgraded it to 2-Gb of RAM and the WEI came out kinda low at 3.4. Still, it runs pretty well in Vista - and my friend is happy to now have both XP and Vista on one machine.
     
    JellyGeo, Mar 25, 2009
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    Glad to hear you got things going! :) Windows Update actually offers the same audio drivers, the R99254 package. I think they work ok.

    But yeah my Inspiron 6000 scored 3.4 as well, the X300 graphics were the limiting factor. Still, where I work I see some brand new laptops score less than that.
     
    steeviebops, Mar 25, 2009
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