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Where'd the i9300 drivers go? Gone from Dell's site...

post #1 of 19
3/24/05 at 6:18pm
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Hopefully they're being updated, but the chipset, audio, and some of the other stuff is gone. Bah humbug, I was just about to download them to clean install XP on my system.

What's the deal, Dell?
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post #2 of 19
3/24/05 at 10:40pm
I just got my 9300 today and I did a fresh install of Windows XP. Now I don't know where to get the chipset drivers and audio drivers because they're not on Dell's support site. Yes they are gone at the moment you can check for yourself. It's pretty annoying hearing a loud BIOS like beep whenever a sound is suppose to come up.

Can someone PLEASE, whoever has downloaded the drivers recently (before they disappeared), host them and post the link here so we can download them!

Thank you!
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post #3 of 19
3/24/05 at 10:43pm
These i9300 drivers were downloaded a couple of days ago (I am hosting them here):

http://www.sowelu.com/storage/Audio.EXE

http://www.sowelu.com/storage/Chipset.EXE

…not sure why they took them down.
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post #4 of 19
3/24/05 at 10:46pm
maybe they'r phasing out the 9300/xps2 models already.
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post #5 of 19
3/24/05 at 11:19pm
Thank you so much for hosting those! If you happen to notice that any other drivers are missing it would be greatly appreciated if they could be hosted. Finally my sound is working!
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post #6 of 19
3/24/05 at 11:34pm
Here are the drivers that I have downloaded. If you need any others that are listed here, just let me know:

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post #7 of 19
3/25/05 at 12:25am
Well, hopefully they repost them soon...
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post #8 of 19
3/25/05 at 10:05am
All the included 9300 drivers can be found at;

http://www.file-mirrors.info/listoff...00 Drivers.zip

You'll need winzip to open it, plus us the "use folder names" option.

EDIT: the link on this forum might not seem to show up right so you might have to copy and paiste the whole link.

http://www.file-mirrors.info/listoffiles/All Dell 9300 Drivers.zip
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post #9 of 19
3/25/05 at 10:08am
Thanks for the drivers traxxton, really appreciate it.
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post #10 of 19
3/25/05 at 10:18am
Anyone knows what's Notebook System Software (NSS - R82491.EXE(42.8 MB)) used for?
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post #11 of 19
3/25/05 at 11:06am
Found all of them on Dells Euro ftp site, you will however need to rumage to find them - can use Sowelu's post to find the filenames.

http://ftp.euro.dell.com/
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post #12 of 19
3/26/05 at 12:29am
Thank you so much. Hope this helps a lot of other confused people too. GREAT forum.
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post #13 of 19
3/26/05 at 12:31am
Download the nVidia WHQL drivers off their website and when you install for your card, force it to use the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Series GPU. I used that and everything is great.

Dell's driver has always been bad... and not performance tweaked...
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post #14 of 19
3/26/05 at 1:53am
I am illiterate in this sense...
I downloaded the drivers one by one and got Sowelu's list. Then I downloaded the ZIP file and got all the folders extracted with traxxton's link. Now, the files I got one by one have .EXE at the end. The zip files are different, without the .EXE. When I navigate to the "onboard" folder in the driver's folder, which file is the driver??
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post #15 of 19
3/26/05 at 6:56am
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Originally Posted by Shinji_U
Download the nVidia WHQL drivers off their website and when you install for your card, force it to use the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Series GPU. I used that and everything is great.

Dell's driver has always been bad... and not performance tweaked...

shinji, how do u u force it to use the nvidia geforce 6800 series gpu?
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post #16 of 19
3/26/05 at 3:34pm
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Originally Posted by simonhipsey
shinji, how do u u force it to use the nvidia geforce 6800 series gpu?
i'm also curious about this
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post #17 of 19
3/26/05 at 3:59pm
I think you have to download the modifies inf file from laptopvideo2go and then use it with the latest drivers from nvidia.
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post #18 of 19
3/27/05 at 3:46am
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I think you have to download the modifies inf file from laptopvideo2go and then use it with the latest drivers from nvidia.
How do you do that? I know there are instructions on that site, but where are more detailed ones. I have never done this before and want to learn how to. Can anyone who has done that tell us or give us a link please??
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post #19 of 19
3/27/05 at 10:48pm
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