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Dell inspiron 1525 laptop downgrading - how

XPerienced, on Wednesday 17 September 2008 à 10:52:49
Hi,

I want to down grade my Dell inspiron 1525 to windows XP.
They are giving Vista with the brand new note book. How to downgrade it to XP.If possible plz give me the info for the availability of latest drivers too.
Configuration: Windows XP
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imranahmed1983, on Thursday 18 September 2008 à 06:26:59
you can get the drivers from these locations:

Notebook system software : http://ftp.us.dell.com/utility/R161278.EXE
Chipset drivers : http://ftp.us.dell.com/chipset/R153997.EXE
Media Card : http://ftp.us.dell.com/chipset/R141246.EXE
Intel Graphics : http://ftp.us.dell.com/video/Intel_GM965-Express-Chipset-_A0­5_R173064.exe
Lan Network : http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDisplay.do?dId=175&pId=3
Wireless : http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R171131.EXE
Bluetooth : http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R161378.EXE
Camera : http://ftp.us.dell.com/input/R165116.EXE
Modem : http://ftp.us.dell.com/comm/R147115.EXE
Touchpad : http://ftp.us.dell.com/input/R155586.EXE
Camera Application : http://ftp.us.dell.com/app/R160320.EXE
Audio : http://ftp.us.dell.com/audio/R171789.exe
Quickset : http://ftp.us.dell.com/app/R161139.EXE

the mousepad driver in xp does not support scrolling, if u want the scrollbars to work then install the vista drivers..
the problem with this is that you will not be able to access the mouse controls from the control panel......
this link is replaced with some bullshit.... so i set the mouse pointer speed, and the mouse pointer before installing the vista drivers. this is important if u plan to use an external usb mouse...... the pointer is shitty slow for a external mouse it u don't do it......
   
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TarikBu, on Saturday 27 September 2008 à 13:44:58
Hi..

Okk basily i really need someones help

i dont no how or why but one monring i think my sister must have done something to my laptop as ther was noo sound..
the little speaker icon at the botttom is gone.. and in control panel there i no sigmatel audio thing.. everywere i look for the auido device its all greyy and shaded and im told that there is no audio device..

also i have tried downloading sigmatel but i always get these things right at the end saying.. error the the audio device is not cimpatiable with your system.. well something along those lines..

PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEE WAT CAN I DO???
PLEASE HELP ME =[[[[
   
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vicky, on Sunday 2 November 2008 à 16:07:31
Hi Imran,

I downloaded vista driver for touchpad for my dell Inspiron 1525.
When I tried to install it ,it displayed a message
"This file is part of multi disc,please enter second disc".
when i clicked 'cancel',it displayed an error message saying "One or more files coul'd be unzipped.Error
code 110".
What should I do? I was insatalling vista driver for touchpad on Xp as xp drivers
do not support scrolling.
Please help me.
Thanks in advance.
   
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kdub, on Friday 14 November 2008 à 17:26:26
In the inspiron Bios I had to enable the SATA hard drive feature after that I created a free partion then deactivaded the Vista system drive. Xp loaded to the new partition. I then formated the *(&^%$) out of Vista.
   
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Hose-B, on Sunday 16 November 2008 à 22:38:12
It all worked very well for me, thank you. How nice it is to have full "play" for all my legacy DOS
applications, some written by me, which Vista would not allow.

The chief function which Vsta would not allow is the use of "Full Screen Mode" by some of my legacy
DOS programs. WIN-XP allows it. Thanks, friend, for your details on how to implement XP on the
Dell Inspiron 1525.

I bought a new 250 GB drive from NewEgg, here in the States (same drive supplied with the Dell
machine when I bought it), and installed WIN XP on it, from a distro disk of XP from a Dell desktop
machine I bought about 8 years ago. Of course, I had to immediately "patch" this OS with Service
Pack 1, and Service Pack 3, available on the Web, before I could make good use of it.

All your drive links are 100% perfectly cast; thank you again.

I found, BTW, that the touchpad driver for XP was pretty "dicey", and when I typed on the keyboard,
sometimes a random touch of the touchpad would cause the typing to go off several lines before; this
was too exasperating, so I found that installing the Vista driver for the touchpad fixed this perfectly.

A thousand thank-you's.

--Joe / Tucson, Arizona / USA
   
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Gomzi, on Monday 22 September 2008 à 09:15:48
Hi,
When u will try to install Win xp in inspiron xp, the installation will show the blue screen of death , this is because Win xp dont have a driver for harddisk in AHCIi mode, To solve this go in bios setup and select hdd mode to AHA, and try to install win xp,This works for me.
But if it doesnt work for you then download the Win xp harddisk driver and slip stream it in win xp with the software name "nlite", You can get tremondous tutorials on net how to use nlite. just google for this.

Cheers......
   
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hazrati, on Tuesday 14 October 2008 à 02:20:41
hi dear friend if you want to install windows xp on ur Dell 1525 the first go to the bois setup at start by pressing the f2
then on there find ATHA somthinig like that change it to AtA then save & reboot ur computer after insert cd and install windows xp
   
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xzaec, on Tuesday 28 October 2008 à 04:34:37
hi hazrati its good that we have you in these forum though,i have got issues with my new dell inspiron 1525 laptop.I had visited China and i bought my laptop like 3 moths later but later my little brother messed around with it and now it cant accept the power on password .I feel so pissed up since i cant work on it and i need my data back pliz advice me how to reset this damn password i will appreciate . thankyou in advance
   
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Kamen, on Monday 20 October 2008 à 11:39:06
Hello
To be able to install XP on the Inspiron 1525 you need to disable the Cash flash memory in the bios setup & also to change the HDD type from ATHA to ATA .
   
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Buiss Phantom, on Tuesday 21 October 2008 à 07:19:10
There are alternate ways. You can make a XP CD with SATA device driver. U will need a XP cd image and download Intel Matrix Storage manager. You can thus make a new CD. Many applications are available for this. So u can directly use AHCI mode and is preffered. This problem is common for almost all laptop users.
   
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tom, on Thursday 6 November 2008 à 16:45:11
I just bought this laptop for school, and the software and hardware I needed to use was not compatible with vista. The easy way to downgrade is to get a copy of windows XP with SP2. This version went right in, and don't forget to delete all the extra partitions dell put on there and use the whole disk for XP, it makes for a faster system.
   
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reza, on Wednesday 12 November 2008 à 05:26:21
hi.very good thanck you
   
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 Terry B, on Tuesday 18 November 2008 à 10:08:18
There are an increasing number of tutorials appearing how to downgrade the Dell Inspiron brand of laptop.
The most detailed I have come across is http://pocket-sized.co.uk/how-to/19/downgrading-dell-inspiro­n-1525-windows-xp
Or a brief overview on downgrading is on this site: http://www.laptops-drivers.com/...
   
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