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Psychonaut. Newbie cheater
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Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:09 pm Post subject: Driver questions [Xp/7] |
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| Ok, so i have a dell studio 1737, it came with vista, i quickly replaced it with seven. Now i really miss windows xp.. just simple and runs great. But i am having no luck what so ever finding Xp drivers for the my dell... Anyone have any suggestions? virtualbox with driver magic? im open for anything, i appreciate it!
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HEdwar2012 Advanced Cheater
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 10:31 am Post subject: |
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Go to the Dell Support site
Put in your service tag and see if it enables you to change the OS to XP. If it doesn't you may not be able to but I know with prior systems you should.
UPDATE: Scratch that thought. I checked the site and they only list drivers for Vista and 7.
Let me do some digging and I'll get back to you.
You may want to run a program called Speccy put out by Piriform (The same folks that make CCleaner) in order to identify all your hardware and piece your drives together from the support site from different or earlier Studio machines that supported XP perhaps.
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 10:36 am Post subject: |
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| I've always used Driver Genius Pro, but piriform is a good trustworthy site.
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HEdwar2012 Advanced Cheater
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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Driver Genius Pro is good IF you can find the full version somewhere or are willing to shell out the clams for it. It does a great job at identifying what drivers are missing and all.
Also check out CPU-Z if Speccy doesn't work for you.
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