Thursday, February 7. 2008
Installing Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 1525 (downgrading from Windows Vista)
I recently came by a new Dell Inspiron 1525 that someone I know purchased. It originally came with Windows Vista Home Premium loaded from the factory, but the owner (like many others) preferred Windows XP Professional. With a little help from the links below, you can install all of the necessary drivers needed to get this laptop working with Windows XP!
First off, you'll need the SATA drivers on a USB floppy. There are other means of satisfying the Windows XP installer's lack of SATA drive support, but you're own your own past this link:
SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
Once XP is installed, I went straight for the wireless card driver:
Dell Wireless 1390 (Broadcom BCM 4311)
Windows Update has the Creative Labs Webcam (built in to the top of the screen) and the Marvell Yukon 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller drivers. If you need the wired ethernet controller driver before the wireless, you can try the Marvell site and search for the Yukon family driver. It will have the driver, plus other utilities if you need support for things like 802.1q VLANs, etc.
Finish out the drivers, chipsets, and Dell hotkey support with:
SIGMATEL STAC 92XX C-Major HD Audio
Chipset
Conexant D330,HDA,MDC,v.92,modem
Touchpad
Intel GM965 (Video Card)
Dell Quickset
Ricoh R5C833 (Flash Drive controller)
This particular Dell Inspiron didn't have bluetooth installed (the BIOS showed no card, even though there was an LED for it), but if your's has the Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Module, you'll need the XP Downgrade patch to enable Bluetooth and then the actual Windows XP Driver
First off, you'll need the SATA drivers on a USB floppy. There are other means of satisfying the Windows XP installer's lack of SATA drive support, but you're own your own past this link:
SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
Once XP is installed, I went straight for the wireless card driver:
Dell Wireless 1390 (Broadcom BCM 4311)
Windows Update has the Creative Labs Webcam (built in to the top of the screen) and the Marvell Yukon 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller drivers. If you need the wired ethernet controller driver before the wireless, you can try the Marvell site and search for the Yukon family driver. It will have the driver, plus other utilities if you need support for things like 802.1q VLANs, etc.
Finish out the drivers, chipsets, and Dell hotkey support with:
SIGMATEL STAC 92XX C-Major HD Audio
Chipset
Conexant D330,HDA,MDC,v.92,modem
Touchpad
Intel GM965 (Video Card)
Dell Quickset
Ricoh R5C833 (Flash Drive controller)
This particular Dell Inspiron didn't have bluetooth installed (the BIOS showed no card, even though there was an LED for it), but if your's has the Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Module, you'll need the XP Downgrade patch to enable Bluetooth and then the actual Windows XP Driver
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Thank you for posting this!!!! This is exactly the machine I need to downgrade to XP Pro on. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Thank you very much. I've located a couple of drivers on my own, but your site saved me hours of work. I can not thank you enough, good sir.
Your a Saint!!! I had tried to put xp already but had no luck w/ drivers so switched back to vista, going to try again! Thanks
Wow this page is a gift! Thanks!
One question - could i use a USB memory stick to feed it the SATA drivers instead of a USB floppy drive?
cheers
Dan
One question - could i use a USB memory stick to feed it the SATA drivers instead of a USB floppy drive?
cheers
Dan
Thanks for all the information. I followed your instructions and everything works great. The only problem I seem to have is that all of the audio driver will not install. I have a question mark in the device manager for the "audio device on high definition audio bus". The audio is working but it only installed the SigmaTel audio codec. Is there a solution for this or should I just be happy that everything else is working?
Heyyyyy, thanks a lot, you are the master!!!
Everything works fine, you saved me, the only thing different is the alternative wireless card manufacturer for this model, for example mine has Intel(R) PRO Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection instead of the dell wireless 1390, here is the link for the driver:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/confirm.aspx?httpDown=http://downloadmirror.intel.com/13000/eng/11.5.0.0_xDrivers.zip&agr=N&ProductID=2259&DwnldId=13000&strOSs=44&OSFullName=Windows*%20XP%20Professional&lang=eng
For tammy: I had exactly the same problem, the missing "audio device on high definition audio bus", the device is the: "Intel(R) High Definition Audio HDMI", and it´s packaged with the video driver, you can look for it inside the video driver folder, i hope that will resolve your problem... sorry my poor english.
Para las personas de habla en español, todos los drivers para la dell inspiron 1525 se encuentran acá, el de red inalambrico podria no coincidir con el Dell Wireless 1390 (Broadcom BCM 4311), así que pueden intentar descargar el controlador para la Intel(R) PRO Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection, de la cual adjunté el link de descarga lineas mas hacia arriba.
Muchas gracias por los drivers, buen día
Everything works fine, you saved me, the only thing different is the alternative wireless card manufacturer for this model, for example mine has Intel(R) PRO Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection instead of the dell wireless 1390, here is the link for the driver:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/confirm.aspx?httpDown=http://downloadmirror.intel.com/13000/eng/11.5.0.0_xDrivers.zip&agr=N&ProductID=2259&DwnldId=13000&strOSs=44&OSFullName=Windows*%20XP%20Professional&lang=eng
For tammy: I had exactly the same problem, the missing "audio device on high definition audio bus", the device is the: "Intel(R) High Definition Audio HDMI", and it´s packaged with the video driver, you can look for it inside the video driver folder, i hope that will resolve your problem... sorry my poor english.
Para las personas de habla en español, todos los drivers para la dell inspiron 1525 se encuentran acá, el de red inalambrico podria no coincidir con el Dell Wireless 1390 (Broadcom BCM 4311), así que pueden intentar descargar el controlador para la Intel(R) PRO Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection, de la cual adjunté el link de descarga lineas mas hacia arriba.
Muchas gracias por los drivers, buen día
Thanks Alexander!! I had downloaded the graphics driver from the Intel website before finding this page so the graphic drivers were installed fine. The graphic driver from the Intel website does not contain the HDMI drivers but the one from Dell does. Everything is now working perfectly! Thanks to you and Khanh for all your help!!
Hi Tammy,
Can you please tell me where did you find driver for Hi Def Audio Bus?
I tried to download video driver from dell site but Device Manager doesn't recognize the driver for audio.
Thanks.
Can you please tell me where did you find driver for Hi Def Audio Bus?
I tried to download video driver from dell site but Device Manager doesn't recognize the driver for audio.
Thanks.
I am not sure why the driver above is not working for you. Here is the order that I installed everything. After formatting the drive and installing Windows XP I installed the chipset drivers from the Dell CD that came with the computer, then the 965G video driver from the Intel web site. I then found this site and installed the drivers above in this order - wireless, audio, modem, touchpad, Ricoh, and quickset. At this point I had an "other device ?" error in the device manager for the audio bus. The audio was working but the audio (HDMI) bus was not installed. I then installed the video drivers from above per instructions from Alexander, then went into the device manager and deleted the "other device ?", rebooted and Windows installed the driver automatically....Be sure to always install the chipset drivers first.
You can use a program called nLite
That program is the top solution for driver integration and custom installation of windows XP, you can add or remove components even the internet explorer, but getting concerned to the sata drivers, you can integrate the sata files using it, there are a lot of guides, forums, etc. of how you can do it, actually is the only way that i know to downgrade vista to xp in certain laptops, the USB floppy units are not common around here,
Saludos
That program is the top solution for driver integration and custom installation of windows XP, you can add or remove components even the internet explorer, but getting concerned to the sata drivers, you can integrate the sata files using it, there are a lot of guides, forums, etc. of how you can do it, actually is the only way that i know to downgrade vista to xp in certain laptops, the USB floppy units are not common around here,
Saludos
Hi.
Thank you for the great post. It helped a lot. I just have a couple of question.
1. I have installed XP w/o AHCI , just disabled it in BIOS. How can I install the drivers after OS installation?
2. Touchpad scroll doesn't work for me, is it a problem, or my particular machine come w/o scrolling feature?
Thanks.
Thank you for the great post. It helped a lot. I just have a couple of question.
1. I have installed XP w/o AHCI , just disabled it in BIOS. How can I install the drivers after OS installation?
2. Touchpad scroll doesn't work for me, is it a problem, or my particular machine come w/o scrolling feature?
Thanks.
To fix the scroll problem you should install the Vista Driver. I uninstalled the old one first (did not restart), installed the Vista version and rebooted.
Works perfectly!
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/downloads/en/downloads_splash?c=us&l=en&s=gen&~mode=popup&file=239968
Works perfectly!
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/downloads/en/downloads_splash?c=us&l=en&s=gen&~mode=popup&file=239968
Hi !
Does this procedure applies to Dell XPS 1530 model also ?
Thanks in advance.
Does this procedure applies to Dell XPS 1530 model also ?
Thanks in advance.
thx guys god bless u all,PS:i have the same question as Stas i desabled AHCI in bios and installed the XP:
1-asking if i have the enable it if yes how can i do it?
2-if i let it as it is it can makes dmg one my PC?
anyway thx thx thx ....etc
1-asking if i have the enable it if yes how can i do it?
2-if i let it as it is it can makes dmg one my PC?
anyway thx thx thx ....etc
Hi,
Did you manage to enable AHCI?
I installed XP the same way you did, but when I enable AHCI I get blue screen, and comp reboots again, but XP won't start.
When I set it back to ATA, everything works fine.
Did you get any solution???
Thanks
Did you manage to enable AHCI?
I installed XP the same way you did, but when I enable AHCI I get blue screen, and comp reboots again, but XP won't start.
When I set it back to ATA, everything works fine.
Did you get any solution???
Thanks
Well I´m not sure how install the sata drives after the WinXP installation, i tried that in a HP 530 with no success. so still as a matter of investigation ;)
Leaving the BIOS adjustments in non AHCI, will not cause any damage to your PC, the only thing to know is, the disk is gonna be used as a common ata, so it will not be used at top performance.
For Siddharth: The sata driver integration using a disk with a floppy or custom instalation disk, is widely used today to downgrade from Vista to XP, cause not all laptops can be adjusted for not use the AHCI e.g. Acer 4310, so that procedure applies to Dell XPS 1530 in the same way, the drivers for the left devices are a different matter of course.
Señores, éxitos y muchos saludos
Leaving the BIOS adjustments in non AHCI, will not cause any damage to your PC, the only thing to know is, the disk is gonna be used as a common ata, so it will not be used at top performance.
For Siddharth: The sata driver integration using a disk with a floppy or custom instalation disk, is widely used today to downgrade from Vista to XP, cause not all laptops can be adjusted for not use the AHCI e.g. Acer 4310, so that procedure applies to Dell XPS 1530 in the same way, the drivers for the left devices are a different matter of course.
Señores, éxitos y muchos saludos
I have an issue. I run through the instructions and get the SATA drivers, which the set up program detects and enables me to partition the hard drive how I want (1 single partition)
Then when I start installing Windows, it asks for the Disk again, even though its not moved.
Any Ideas?
Then when I start installing Windows, it asks for the Disk again, even though its not moved.
Any Ideas?
Hi.
There is a trick, you only need a single partition, but sometimes when you create just one, the setup take all HDD capacity without the 8mb of non-partitioned space, once I had a similar trouble so I created two partitions, when I did it, the 8mb of space that windows create for I don´t know what for appear, after that, you can proceed to eliminate the two partitions and create the single one that you need.
Greetings/Saludos
There is a trick, you only need a single partition, but sometimes when you create just one, the setup take all HDD capacity without the 8mb of non-partitioned space, once I had a similar trouble so I created two partitions, when I did it, the 8mb of space that windows create for I don´t know what for appear, after that, you can proceed to eliminate the two partitions and create the single one that you need.
Greetings/Saludos
The partition created OK with the 8MB of unallocated space.
Just trying to see if 2 partitions makes it work.
Just trying to see if 2 partitions makes it work.
Yeah, CD is fine. Solved it in the end using Nlite.
Only problem I have now is that my sound card wont work, and installling the drivers above tells me that particular chip is not present.
Any ideas?
Only problem I have now is that my sound card wont work, and installling the drivers above tells me that particular chip is not present.
Any ideas?
You have to install the UAA first, in order to install the soundcard
and sometimes you have to install the devices manually in the device manager, because the setup can´t do it.
Saludos
and sometimes you have to install the devices manually in the device manager, because the setup can´t do it.
Saludos
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Alexander Cardona
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2008-02-27 11:44
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Hello ,, thanks for your help .. is there any other why .. with out usb floppy .. becouse i dont have usb floppy , :S and i need to install xp in my inspiron 1525
Use nlite software to create a customized XP Disk
Google it for "nlite" & download
Extract the Driver into temp location
place the xp cd in the drive
open nlite and select the option "Add Driver"
Browse the driver file from the temp location
nlite will create a new iso image of xp cd in the drive and add the drivers to it.
burn the image on to a CD.
Now your XP CD contains your drivers.
this method works for similar problem (no usb floppy) for a HP DV6500 we suceeded.
mail me any probs
thaks
Google it for "nlite" & download
Extract the Driver into temp location
place the xp cd in the drive
open nlite and select the option "Add Driver"
Browse the driver file from the temp location
nlite will create a new iso image of xp cd in the drive and add the drivers to it.
burn the image on to a CD.
Now your XP CD contains your drivers.
this method works for similar problem (no usb floppy) for a HP DV6500 we suceeded.
mail me any probs
thaks
Thanks for the quick links. It saved me a lot of time.
Lovely that dell refuses to give you the links to the XP drivers when you put in your package number.
Lovely that dell refuses to give you the links to the XP drivers when you put in your package number.
Thx for this!!!
I received my inspiron and i really dont want Vista with it!!
Im trying your drivers....
but can you re-up the audio and touchpad drivers...the links doent work...
Thx in advance
I received my inspiron and i really dont want Vista with it!!
Im trying your drivers....
but can you re-up the audio and touchpad drivers...the links doent work...
Thx in advance
can anyone confirm whether installing the creative driver from windows update slows startup?
Forget my above comment. or some reason the anti-virus I normally use slows shutdown immensely on this thing. Used AVG, all good.
Thanks again for this guide
Thanks again for this guide
The only thing i'm having trouble with is my display adapter; when I (re)start the computer the display is perfectly sharp (got the 1440x900 TFT), but when I wake the computer from standby or hibernate The display gets all blurry... When I reboot the computer again everything is fine. Really annoying.
I can't believe that people have to go through all this just to get Windows XP installed on their laptop. I'm having this problem which I have just encountered. My problem is that when I press F3 to get the third party installation menu up, I put the cd in, press enter, and nothing happens. And I'm finding it hard to understand how to work this Nlite program. I Hate vista. I hate microsoft and I hate Dell. It's all so messed up, i'm so frustrated with this problem
I went to XP Pro SP1 from Vista basic with my Dell 1525 laptop and tried the Audio driver here and I eventually get an error during the installation saying, "exiterror:error=this system does not support the driver you are attempting to install." Any help?
Well, the audio is always a trouble in a XP downgraded laptop, for this model you must look for the UAA first, that can be encountered in the device manager, and it had a ! symbol, you must install this first, then the audio driver installs by itself, so, mess around in the device manager, i´m sure you´ll find out.
Saludos
and Chavez sucks, the FARC sucks, don´t belive what you see
Saludos
and Chavez sucks, the FARC sucks, don´t belive what you see
In device manager, look under system devices and you will see a pci device with a yellow exclamation. Right click and select update driver and then select update from ms update. It will find the MS UAA Bus Driver for HD audio. Then you will be able install the modem and the audio.
Hello. I can't find the XP device driver for the Marvell Yukon 88E8040 PCI-E fast ethernet controller on my dell inspiron 1525. I looked on the marvell website but can't find it. it also does not display my current driver within Vista which is 10.22.6.3 please help it's the only driver i need to complete the entire process of downgrading.
I have it, leave me an e-mail where I can send it to you
Saludos
Saludos
You should be able to use this:
http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDisplay.do?dId=103&pId=3
http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDisplay.do?dId=103&pId=3
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