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DarraghXPS

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November 6th, 2006 21:00

Drivers and Software for VISTA

Hi

I just intalled VISTA on my laptop.

I went to the downloads section on dell support and could not find VISTA from the dropdown list of operating systems.

I would chance my arm and choose XP but AVG already complained and I had to download another free version.

Darragh
  • NemesisDB

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    Posted November 7th, 2006 00:00

    any particular drivers you were looking for?
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    Posted November 7th, 2006 00:00



    @DarraghXPS wrote:
    Hi

    I just intalled VISTA on my laptop.

    I went to the downloads section on dell support and could not find VISTA from the dropdown list of operating systems.

    I would chance my arm and choose XP but AVG already complained and I had to download another free version.

    Darragh


    You can use the XP downloads. I have talked with Dell Chat and they said that it should work. I'm thinking that when the final release is out that the downloads will be available for Vista. I downloaded most drivers from the XP and still worked.
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    Posted November 7th, 2006 04:00

    You did not find Vista listed as it is not yet a supported operating system.  As the above poster commented, most of the XP drivers will work, but you may have to go to the individula manufacturers site for some needed drivers.
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    Posted November 7th, 2006 09:00

    I just went back to the downloads section. But ive no idea what to download.
     
    I entered my service tag and choose XP from the dropdown list but there is a ton of downloads. Is there any guide available on the forums for XPS M1710 that shows what to get?
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    Posted November 7th, 2006 13:00

    Except for some cosmetic issues, RC2 is just about as close to the final deal as you will see.
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    Posted November 7th, 2006 13:00

    though with vista you kinda hope most of the drivers are included. ATI for instance has yet to make drivers available for download that are newer than those that shipped with RC2
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    Posted November 7th, 2006 16:00

    There can only be one chipset driver.
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    Posted November 7th, 2006 16:00

    is this on the intel site? can you list what the downloads are?
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    Posted November 7th, 2006 16:00

    Well I know what to install but for instance, I have three different drivers to download for my chipset. How do I know which one to get?