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June 20th, 2010 09:00
DELL E510 XP Reinstall / Drivers??
I just reinstall Windows XP and all is well, but when I tried to connect to the internet I couldn't. Then realized that the DRIVERS are not loaded.
I "believe" I found the correct RESOURCE CD that has the drivers on it. Although when I booted it, it shows SYSTEM MODEL DM061 (I want to be sure that is the right resource disk for the drivers)...I think it is but not sure.
When I went to look at the System Information. All of my OTHER DEVICES show with a ? and are in YELLOW, indicating the device drivers are not installed.
1) What is the procedure to make sure I have the right RESOURCE CD for this computer (E510) and the instructions / or order in which I need to install????
I don't just want to do this blindly and then really mess up the system.
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fireberd
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June 20th, 2010 09:00
I have an E510.
You obviously skipped the Intel chipset drivers and device driver installs. A DM061, doing a google search, says that is a Dimension E520 and thus would be the wrong drivers for the E510. A DM051 could be a Dell Dimension E510.
On a new install the correct and required install sequence on Dell's is (1) Install Windows (2) Install Dell Desktop System Software on applicable models (3) Install chipset drivers aand finally (4) Install device drivers including video, sound, ethernet, etc. And, you need the Dell sound drivers, not some other driver that Windows may install.
The E510's came with the Dell recovery partiton on the hard drive, accessed by CTRL/F11 at power on, and if yours still has the partiton that is the best way to restore as it does not require any discs and it restores everything back to the original factory condition. If yours still has that, do the "PC Restore".
If you no longer have the Dell recovery partition then you are looking at the manual install method. HERE is the Dell support page. You can access the Drivers by the Service Tag number and it will list drivers based on how the PC originally shipped from the factory.
As you apparently skipped the chipset drivers, install them, reboot the PC and then install the Dell SigmaTel sound driver, Ethernet and anything else that is missing. Usually that will fix the problems but on a few isolated cases it will take a new correct sequence install to get everything working.