I went to a little bit of hell when upgraded my Dell Alienware m17x to windows 7 64 bit ultimate. It's been working great for a while but out of no ware the HDMI output stopped working. I check the HDMI cable but it was a good cable. I could not get my HDMI working to my external dell 24" monitor nor my HDTV. After digging around I went to dell.com downloaded the latest BIOS driver for A03 release on 1/11/2011. To to dell.com and get the latest windows 7 BIOS driver. http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R254103&SystemID=ALW_LP_M17X&servicetag=&os=W764&osl=en&deviceid=19197&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=4&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=0&libid=1&typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&fileid=372828
After updating the flash bios it started working like a charm.
Showing posts with label laptop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label laptop. Show all posts
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Monday, November 26, 2007
Dell Inspiron 1720 Windows XP Pro Working Audio Driver SIGMATEL STAC 92XX
After wiping out Windows Vista and installing Windows XP Pro SP2 in my Dell Inspiron 1720 I found my self in trouble. I could not find any where in Dell's web site or forums the driver for the sound device for my laptop.
After several hours of search and trying different drivers I found a driver only available in Dell's German Language for the SigmaTel sound card R153908.exe.
You can download it from Dell's website here or you can get it from my online box here.
Just donwload run the file it will extract all the files to a directory default "c:\dell\drivers" and the setup will be launched.
After several hours of search and trying different drivers I found a driver only available in Dell's German Language for the SigmaTel sound card R153908.exe.
You can download it from Dell's website here or you can get it from my online box here.
Just donwload run the file it will extract all the files to a directory default "c:\dell\drivers" and the setup will be launched.
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Inspiron 1720 with Windows XP nVidia GeForce 8600M GT driver
About a week ago a got my new Inspiron 1720 laptop from dell.
Of course dell push me to Window Vista Home edition but we all know that developer's cannot work with this. I was running Window Vista Business edition in my previous laptop a Lenovo 3000N100 which a got to say that it was a piece of junk. My friend Alex got the same Lenovo machine and he blog about how bad the keyboard is. Read he's blog post here.
As soon as I open the box with my new Inspiron 1720 I fire it up with the Windows XP Pro CD.
I had difficulties installing the Windows XP Pro, since the laptop was targeting Vista. But thanks to some blogs out there I finally got it working.
However, the trouble came when installing the drivers. Dell doest not have any driver downloads at there website for Window XP operating system, therefore, I had to search the entire internet.
I tried several nVidia drivers from http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/ but what got it working for my nVidia 256mb 8600M GT graphics card was the driver version 163.75 with the modded inf file.
You can download the driver here from the http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/
I hate that Microsoft and the retailers are trying to get everyone stuck with Vista.
I don't have any problem with Vista. But as a developer I need to used reliable tools and applications and many out there are still not up to date for Vista.
If laptopvideo2go.com is down, you can download the driver here.
The modified .inf file you get download it here.
Good luck!
Of course dell push me to Window Vista Home edition but we all know that developer's cannot work with this. I was running Window Vista Business edition in my previous laptop a Lenovo 3000N100 which a got to say that it was a piece of junk. My friend Alex got the same Lenovo machine and he blog about how bad the keyboard is. Read he's blog post here.
As soon as I open the box with my new Inspiron 1720 I fire it up with the Windows XP Pro CD.
I had difficulties installing the Windows XP Pro, since the laptop was targeting Vista. But thanks to some blogs out there I finally got it working.
However, the trouble came when installing the drivers. Dell doest not have any driver downloads at there website for Window XP operating system, therefore, I had to search the entire internet.
I tried several nVidia drivers from http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/ but what got it working for my nVidia 256mb 8600M GT graphics card was the driver version 163.75 with the modded inf file.
You can download the driver here from the http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/
I hate that Microsoft and the retailers are trying to get everyone stuck with Vista.
I don't have any problem with Vista. But as a developer I need to used reliable tools and applications and many out there are still not up to date for Vista.
If laptopvideo2go.com is down, you can download the driver here.
The modified .inf file you get download it here.
Good luck!
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