Posts by stuckinasquare3

oh I see

I got everything working under XP finally. Make sure you have all your drivers. You may have the wrong wifi driver

what im saying is, you can't actually surf the internet or do anything useful until u power up your computer

Quote: Originally Posted by Walter_S speedy vista machine to run the windows software that I use sounds like an oxymoron

What good is that if you can't use it until you power up the laptop?

Just got mine a few days ago after having it been delayed for about two weeks. The thing is pretty and very light. Granted I'm coming from an XPS M1710. My initial concern was the battery seemed to be a little flimsy. I got the 9 cell...

I'm curious. My Inspiron 1420 has one of those wifi switch thingers and I have no idea what it does. Is that the wifi catcher? What's the point of it?

I haven't gone to XP yet on my Inspiron 1420 but I'm planning on it. If you go to Dells driver site for the vostro 1500, XP, it has most of the drivers you will need.

My Inspiron 1420 shipped with vista and I want to go back to XP but I have to find compatible drivers for things and I'm having trouble identifying all of my hardware. I have found drivers for everything (I think) except sound and...

Hey guys, there was a post way back in this thread (270 something or so) that had a soundcard driver that let my m1710 running vista have stereo mix available. I tried using that same driver on my new inspiron 1420 and it wouldn't...