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Dan Axon: Installing Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 1525 (downgrading from Windows Vista)

nospam@example.com (Dan Axon) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:27:33 -0700

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

Khanh: Installing Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 1525 (downgrading from Windows Vista)

nospam@example.com (Khanh) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:16:11 -0700

You should be able to use this:
http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDisplay.do?dId=103&pId=3

Alexander Cardona: Installing Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 1525 (downgrading from Windows Vista)

nospam@example.com (Alexander Cardona) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:02:06 -0700

I have it, leave me an e-mail where I can send it to you

Saludos

matthew: Installing Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 1525 (downgrading from Windows Vista)

nospam@example.com (matthew) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:22:08 -0700

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.

: Installing Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 1525 (downgrading from Windows Vista)

nospam@example.com () — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:13:14 -0700

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.

Alexander Cardona: Installing Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 1525 (downgrading from Windows Vista)

nospam@example.com (Alexander Cardona) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:21:36 -0700

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

volume: Installing Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 1525 (downgrading from Windows Vista)

nospam@example.com (volume) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:35:06 -0700

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?

Venkatesh: Installing Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 1525 (downgrading from Windows Vista)

nospam@example.com (Venkatesh) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:47:03 -0700

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

matthew: Installing Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 1525 (downgrading from Windows Vista)

nospam@example.com (matthew) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:21:40 -0700

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

Tammy: Installing Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 1525 (downgrading from Windows Vista)

nospam@example.com (Tammy) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:53:43 -0700

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.

Micha: Installing Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 1525 (downgrading from Windows Vista)

nospam@example.com (Micha) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:08:28 -0700

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.

Jason Covacci: Installing Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 1525 (downgrading from Windows Vista)

nospam@example.com (Jason Covacci) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:14:56 -0700

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

Jason: Installing Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 1525 (downgrading from Windows Vista)

nospam@example.com (Jason) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:58:10 -0700

can anyone confirm whether installing the creative driver from windows update slows startup?

Gregg: Installing Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 1525 (downgrading from Windows Vista)

nospam@example.com (Gregg) — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:44:18 -0700

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

Meelosh: Installing Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 1525 (downgrading from Windows Vista)

nospam@example.com (Meelosh) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:58:35 -0700

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