Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Drivers for DELL Lattitude D810

  • 10-08-2012 12:19pm
    #1
    stuar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭


    Hi all, I reformatted a Dell Lattitude D810 for a friend with Windows 7 Ultimate, it had XP on it before.
    I can't find any compatible drivers for the wireless card or audio, if anybody can help/point me in the right direction I'd really appreciate it.

    It has an intel centrino processor in it, a driver programme I use is useless and cant even name the exact cards.

    I pulled the cover off the back while writing this and the wireless card is an intel WM3B2200BG, I dont know if the audio is intel onboard or other.

    I'll try google for Win7 drivers for the wireless card, if anybody can help or even put a name to the audio card that would be a great help.

    Thanks

    EDIT:
    I found a vista driver for the wireless card and up and running now, if anybody can help with the audio and PCI simple communications controller (think its a bluetooth card, but I'm not too concerned about that really)


Comments

  • #2
    Jarren
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,692 ✭✭✭Jarren


    Will this help ?

    http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/04/TroubleShooting/ProductSelector

    http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect?iid=dc_iduu


  • #3
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    You're going to struggle with that laptop.

    No point running windows 7 on that machine at all imo. It's too old, too slow and as you've realised you're going to run into driver issues.

    Back to XP is what I say!


  • #4
    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    The soundchip is a SigmaTel STAC 975X AC97. Get the driver trough Windows Update, Microsoft offers a "SigmaTel C-Major Audio" driver for Windows Vista and Windows 7.

    To second Alanstrainor, you're not exactly doing your friend a favour by installing Windows 7 on a seven year old laptop with a Pentium M, which is essentially a modified Pentium III mobile CPU.


  • #5
    stuar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    Thanks all, I have it sorted, the audio was SIGMATEL STAC 975X AC97, got a vista driver for that.

    Thanks Jarren completely forgot about the dell service tag (although I use an XPS M1530:o), just never had to go looking for drivers for it.

    Alanstrainor, its actually not too bad TBH, my friend only wants to browse the web etc, it has 1Gig RAM and a 2.00GHz processor and is running smoothly now.

    Thanks for the replies.


  • #6
    stuar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    Torqay wrote: »
    The soundchip is a SigmaTel STAC 975X AC97. Get the driver trough Windows Update, Microsoft offers a "SigmaTel C-Major Audio" driver for Windows Vista and Windows 7.

    To second Alanstrainor, you're not exactly doing your friend a favour by installing Windows 7 on a seven year old laptop with a Pentium M, which is essentially a modified Pentium III mobile CPU.


    Sorry only saw this post now, I was replying with my post beneath yours and was interupted for an hour or so and just left the window open.

    The laptop is old, but I was browsing the net etc on it and it will pass for his needs, which is browsing the net, he won't be installing many programs (if any) and I installed all the usual, flash, acrobat, winrar, ccleaner etc so he's ok to go.



    Thanks again all.:)


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    It will not be bad for surfing the web, I see it has 1GB ram which is still low but should be fine for browsing and such, but the 1GB ram on window 7 is going to suffer badly when you install a firewall/anti-virus software but you might be ok if you use microsoft security essentials but in saying this, it will take a lot of memory.


Advertisement