Winxp fresh install - 1720 - driver chaos

Hello,

I recived my 1720 friday and been fiddling arround with it this weekend. After installing winxp and searching for drivers the entire weekend I finally managed to have an allmost perfect device manager with no yellow exclamaion marks except for one PCI device for which I have no clues as of what it is or does. While installing drivers at some point the Laptop Webcam device disapered, can't remember the "PCI device" and the "Laptop Webcam" device where both in the list, but i don't think it can change it's name. The driver for the webcam didn't work, but now i can't find the webcam in the device manager list to try new drivers on it. ATM it says i have no webcam installed.

Also I remember in vista that for the sigmatel audio control panel there were more options than the 2 buttons i ended in xp. This is a secondary issue, I am satisfied that finally I got it working but if any1 has any knowledge about a more advanced driver or a working hack for that control panlel please let me know.

I find it unacceptable that the dell support site dosen't have all the xp 32-bit drivers and that you have to trial and arror drivers from other dell notebooks to find the ones working for your 1720.

If anyone has had any experience with installing windows XP on an 1720/1721 please share your experience maybe i'll find some answers there.



Thanks,
Alex

 

i have the pci device thing on my laptop, idk what it is. every thing works but my sound though.

 

oh, but i wassent saying that the PCI is the sound, cause it isn't

 

while we're on it, can I ask you what do ya need to control Wi-Fi/ Ethernet on 1720 in XP. My Device manager shows a Network Controller with an exclamation
And yeah that PCI Device is probably the Phone Modem ? I have the same issue on that ...
Another thing I noticed why do we have 2 processors listed in device manager ?

 

we have 2 processors, cause its dual core, and XP recognizes it as 2 processors. the WIFI you can get the driver from intel, and windows has a built in program. the pci device could be the modem, but who uses them anyways?

 

Because you have a Core 2 Duo processor.

 

When you travel with your laptop, you'd be surprised how many times you don't have any wi-fi or LAN connections and you have to rely on a dial-up connection.

 

Not much help to offer here, but I'm glad to see a thread about installing XP on a 1721. My 1721 should be on it's way soon, and I'll be doing the same thing. I'm even more glad now I didn't get the webcam.

 

Can't remember the file that worked for sigmatel but you can search for the sigmatel drivers for insipiron 1501.

this is the description in the txt extracted with the drivers:
Title: Audio: SIGMATEL STAC 92XX C-Major HD Audio Driver
Version : A07
OEM name : SIGMATEL
OEM Version: 5.10.0.5143
Computers : Inspiron: 1501; Latitude: 131L, D620
OSes : Windows 2000 Professional,Windows XP Home Edition,Windows XP Media Center Edition,Windows XP Professional,Windows XP x64 Professional Client
Languages : Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese-S, Chinese-T, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish
Created : Thursday, January 25, 2007

how did you install the webcam?

 

you must check which wifi card you have, either from dell or intel.

i had the cheapest and the driver worked with this file:
Title : Network: Dell Wireless 1350 WLAN MiniPCI Card,Wireless 1450 WLAN miniPCI Card,Wireless 1350 WLAN PC Card,_Wireless (Except US,Japan) WLAN Card,Wireless 1370 WLAN MiniPCI Card,Wireless 1470 Dual-Band WLAN miniPCI Card,Wireless 1390 WLAN MiniCard,Wireless 1490 Dual-Band WLAN MiniCard,Wireless 1390 WLAN ExpressCard,Wireless 1500 Draft 802.11n WLAN mini Card,Wireless 1505 Draft 802.11n WLAN Mini-Card Driver
Version : A14
OEM Name : Dell
OEM Ver : 4.100.15.5 / 4.100.15.8
Computers : MXC051, MXP061; Inspiron: 1000, 1100, 1150, 1200, 1501, 2200, 300m, 500m, 5100, 510m, 5150, 5160, 6000, 600m, 700m, 710m, 8500, 8600, 9100, 9200, 9300, B120, B135/1400, ME051, MM061, MP061, MXC061, XPS, XPS Gen 2; Latitude: 100L, 110L, 120L , 131L, D400, D410, D420, D430, D500, D505, D510, D520, D531, D600, D610, D620, D620, D630, D800, D810, D820, D830, X1, X300; Precision: M20, M4300, M60, M65, M70, M90; Vostro Notebook: 1000; XPS: MXC062, MXG051, MXG061
OS : Windows XP,Windows XP x64
Languages : Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese-S, Chinese-T, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Spanish
Created : Wednesday, July 11, 2007

and btw it ain't the modem

 

I think it could be the card reader, has anyone found drivers for WINXP regarding the card reader or webcam?