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Dell inspiron 1525 laptop downgrading - how

XPerienced, on Wednesday September 17, 2008 10:52:49 AM 
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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.

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imranahmed1983, on Thursday September 18, 2008 06:26:59 AM
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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 September 27, 2008 01:44:58 PM
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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 November 2, 2008 04:07:31 PM
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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 November 14, 2008 05:26:26 PM
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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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Imroze, on Friday March 6, 2009 06:51:36 PM

Hi

may i know how to intall windows xp in dell 1525 laptop, as i have used nvidia software to add sata driver in windows operating system but it doesnt worked . there was a error message while installing xp. I think we have to make changes in bios if any one can help me please do that and explain me in step by step process please.................

   
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bongzilla, on Sunday March 15, 2009 02:49:16 PM

Hey peoples there is a version of xp that supports all drivers except the camera i have a 1420 inspiron. It is called lastxp. Go to www.sharingisthepoint.net.

   
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 Teddy, on Saturday June 13, 2009 01:06:18 PM
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I'm a jounior tech. tring to downgrade a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop from win vista to win XP . I have downloaded all the XP device drivers from varous sites, but couldn't install XP. After coping all the files it gives me a blue screen. I tried two versions of win XP sp2. I'm not familier with windows Vista, can I get help?

   
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Hose-B, on Sunday November 16, 2008 10:38:12 PM

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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Skeeter, on Monday January 12, 2009 02:03:25 PM

Thanks for this post everyone. My research and patience paid off. I now have XP on my Dell 1525 and it much faster and less problematic. Thanks for all the tips, driver URL's and info.

   
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jimesh1986foru@yahoo.com, on Wednesday January 14, 2009 04:02:18 PM
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Thanks for dell xp supported all drivers
now i want vista supported all drivers for dell inspiron 1525 pleas send me how can i collect it.

   
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Ishu, on Sunday January 25, 2009 08:03:49 PM
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Thanx alot for Drivers!!!!

   
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James, on Tuesday February 24, 2009 08:41:02 PM

Thanks for the drivers....searched everywhere for them. Great Help!

   
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sabah nama, on Friday May 15, 2009 05:27:06 AM

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Gomzi, on Monday September 22, 2008 09:15:48 AM

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 October 14, 2008 02:20:41 AM

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 October 28, 2008 04:34:37 AM

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 October 20, 2008 11:39:06 AM
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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 October 21, 2008 07:19:10 AM

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 November 6, 2008 04:45:11 PM

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 November 12, 2008 05:26:21 AM
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Hi.very good thanck you

   
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Terry B, on Tuesday November 18, 2008 10:08:18 AM

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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aaron R, on Monday December 1, 2008 08:52:12 PM

I cant seem to make my audio work. When I just finish installing XP, device manager shows all unknown devices (ethernet, wireless etc) but there is no unknown audio hardware. When I try installing the Drivers provided here or in dell.com I get the "device not supported on this system". Any ideas?

   
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Ali, on Sunday December 14, 2008 11:50:16 AM
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FOR XP OS...

In order to install the drivers correctly,the following
order should be maintained otherwise an audio driver is
not installed by the system.

1/- Intel Mobile Chipset Driver
2/- Ricoh Driver
3/- Audio Driver
4/- Display Driver
5/- Modem Driver
6/- Wireless Driver
7/- Bluetooth Driver
8/- Cd-rom/Dvd Driver
9/- Integrated Webcam Driver
10/- Sata Driver
11/- Ethernet Driver
12/- Dell Tools (optional)

All the above are available at
http://rapidshare.com/files/158301835/DELL_Inspiron_1525_Xp_­Drivers_P1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/158304587/DELL_Inspiron_1525_Xp_­Drivers_P2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/158311261/DELL_Inspiron_1525_Xp_­Drivers_P3.rar


BUT STILL I HAD A PROBLEM WITH TOUCH PAD...

CAN ANYONE HELP ME...

   
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rana, on Thursday December 25, 2008 10:31:50 AM

Thanks lot yaar

   
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SELLAVAR, on Friday December 26, 2008 04:06:58 PM

This is what i got from one forum and it is working nicely

These are windows xp drivers for Dell Inspiron 1525 Laptops.

I have divided all these drivers in to 3 files, dont forget to download
all three files labeled as P1,P2 and P3 from rapidshare to get all the
drivers.


In order to install the drivers correctly,the following
order should be maintained otherwise an audio driver is
not installed by the system.

1/- Intel Mobile Chipset Driver
2/- Ricoh Driver
3/- Audio Driver
4/- Display Driver
5/- Modem Driver
6/- Wireless Driver
7/- Bluetooth Driver
8/- Cd-rom/Dvd Driver
9/- Integrated Webcam Driver
10/- Sata Driver
11/- Ethernet Driver
12/- Dell Tools (optional)


Note

The ethernet driver requires manual installation.

All drivers are for Inspiron 1525 but only bluetooth driver is
of 1520. I could not find bluetooth driver for windows xp any
where (not even on Dell website) so i used Inspiron 1520 driver
and it worked perfectly.


and you can download it from
http://rapidshare.com/files/158301835/DELL_Inspiron_1525_Xp_­Drivers_P1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/158304587/DELL_Inspiron_1525_Xp_­Drivers_P2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/158311261/DELL_Inspiron_1525_Xp_­Drivers_P3.rar

   
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Sandy, on Friday February 27, 2009 04:07:26 PM

Hi

I have downgraded Vista to XP on my Dell Inspiron 1525.

I have also downloded the Dell drivers that were provided by you in Rapidshare.

Thanks a lot for that..

But I am not able to install Ethernet driver even in your downloaded one also I couldn't find the "setup.exe."

I have seen that you have mentioned that we need to install it manually,but I don't know how to install it manually,so could you please let me know the steps how to install it manually?

I would be very thankful to you for this..

Thanks........

   
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ryan, on Saturday December 27, 2008 12:06:06 AM

THis has been so helpful. First off do i need to install in the order given? second i cant get wifi working. The intel proset wireless installer uninstalls without a prompt. Ive tried all the drivers and cant do it. What is the ethernet driveR?

   
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SELLAVAR, on Saturday December 27, 2008 12:35:46 AM

Yes IT HAS TO BE INSTALLED IN THE GIVEN ORDER.
wifi is working for me.
may be you have to change your settings in 'administrative tools-services' section

   
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ryan, on Saturday December 27, 2008 12:37:56 AM

In the list display driver. what is this driver i cant seem to find. also, cd-rom/dvd driver I have the dvd/cd burner drive what driver do I need? thanks

   
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SELLAVAR, on Saturday December 27, 2008 12:40:54 AM

Have you downloaded all the three parts...
or the SAME THINGS ARE AVAILABLE IN
http://support.dell.com/...

   
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ryan, on Saturday December 27, 2008 12:43:39 AM

Ive been downloading all from dell and cant find display

   
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SELLAVAR, on Saturday December 27, 2008 12:45:20 AM

Tell me exactly what you want?

   
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ryan, on Saturday December 27, 2008 12:45:21 AM

Also i couldnt open disk manager.... im doing a reinstall so i can install the drivers in order

   
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SELLAVAR, on Saturday December 27, 2008 12:48:35 AM

OS is perfectly loaded?
then install in the given order.
I don't have any problem...after following this method
earlier i have the problem with audio card
if you follow this pattern it should work...provided if our OS is ok

   
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ryan, on Saturday December 27, 2008 12:57:00 AM
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Alright thanks. I cant get the rapidshare files. I only got the first one. Now it says i cant download. I need an account?

   
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SELLAVAR, on Saturday December 27, 2008 01:02:25 AM

Sss..you have to wait...download one by one...for a free account
ALL ARE AVAILABLE IN DELL SUPPORT also
bye for now

   
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mizo ashraf, on Sunday March 8, 2009 03:14:39 AM

Hi ... thanks alot for this subject ..

please , now .. the wireless of the router does not always connect

sometimes it connects .. and other times not ..

what to do ??

i tried to setup the Dell_multi-device_A17_R174291 bit it said not compatible .. what to do ?

   
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Brandon, on Tuesday March 31, 2009 10:50:18 PM

You most likely have the vista driver and thats why its not compatible. All the drivers you need should be above in someone else's post.

   
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