Seeking drivers

Cholfo

Cholfo

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I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 1521 laptop and promptly formatted it to install XP instead of Vista. The only problems I've had since the installation is my complete lack of ability to locate a Windows XP driver for ATI's Radeon Xpress1270 HyperMemory(the onboard card it came with), as well as the sound system, whose name escapes me at the moment. I've combed through ATI's driver section to no avail. If anyone else has had this problem and located a driver, or simply has the location of the driver on hand, I'd really appreciate the link. No driver, no laptop SoD.

Thanks in advance for any input.
 
ATI doesn't support Dell laptops. Instead you'll need to get them off Dell's support page. But I'm sure omegadrivers.net will have the right set. They're better anyway.
PSP FTL. :toot:
 
I've tried Dell's support page to no avail, they've got no XP drivers up for download for this particular video card. I'm working on getting Omegadrivers installed and functional right now, but am having little luck. Things seemed to install fine, but upon rebooting I'm still getting the tell-tale sluggishness of browser scrolls and such. Not sure where to go from here, actually, but I'm tooling around, thanks for reminding me Omega exists.
 
Double post, but eh. Supposedly I have the omegadrivers installed, but they don't seem to be particularly functional. Can't find anything in the tech support forums relative to the Xpress1270 or Inspiron 1521, so I'm not really sure where to go from here. Any advice greatly appreciated.
 
I'm pretty sure your GFX card only have drivers written for Vista. My guess is you'll have to wait for someone to write XP drivers for it, I would post in some driver forums and ask for assistance.
 
Cholfo said:
I've tried Dell's support page to no avail, they've got no XP drivers up for download for this particular video card. I'm working on getting Omegadrivers installed and functional right now, but am having little luck. Things seemed to install fine, but upon rebooting I'm still getting the tell-tale sluggishness of browser scrolls and such. Not sure where to go from here, actually, but I'm tooling around, thanks for reminding me Omega exists.
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You should be able to find them by punching in your Service Tag code on the bottom of the laptop. From there you should be able to find any and all of the drivers for your model type no matter what O/S you're using. If you seriously cannot find them there, and you said it's new, call Dell up and ask them. You get at least 1 year of tech support free.
 
After much headbanging with Dell tech support, I was eventually told that my particular system was designed only for support and use with Windows Vista, and XP drivers will not be released for either the video /or/ audio end. So, basically, if I'm going to get drivers functional on this, I'm guessing I'm going to have to go with some kind of third-party system like Omegadrivers. That Omega didn't work on my last installation attempt disheartens me, and I'm open to any other suggestions.

Big h8s to Dell for trying to force Vista onto the general populous by not offering support. Boo you, Dell. Boo you.
 
Omega Drivers FAQ said:
I installed the drivers, but now my screen is slow and choppy, not even my games work, what I did wrong?
You did nothing wrong, is just that one of two things happened after installation:

1. The SmartGart service did not initialize.
2. SmartGart disabled AGP support because it found a problem.

For case 1, make sure the "SmartGart" service is enabled and set to Automatic, also try starting the service manually, then restart your PC.

For case 2, make sure you have the latest motherboard AGP chipset drivers installed; they can usually be found at the motherboard’s manufacturer page or you can get them directly from the chipset supplier, like Intel, VIA, NVIDIA, etc.
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Just a snippet from Omega Driver's FAQ. If that doesn't help snoop around the http://www.driverheaven.net/ forums.
 
Oh, I missed that bit. I'll see if I can give that a shot. And yeah, I've made a post in driversheaven as well.
 
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