Trouble with Dell Inspiron 1525

Fizman · 07-08-2010 09:24PM #1

Lads I'm having a bit of trouble with a cousins laptop. It was riddled with trojans so I just reinstalled Vista (64 bit). I'm now having trouble getting online. It doesn't seem to recognise the onboard network card, and I have tried downloading the 1525 driver download from dell but haven't had any luck. It still doesn't seem to recognise it (ethernet controller in device manager has a yellow asterix).

Any ideas? I'm at a bit of a loss at the minute.

shinobi · 08-08-2010 04:49AM

In the installation did you choose to format the hard disk first? Or did you just install Windows 7 over the old installation? If you did the latter it is probably best to start from scratch & choose to do a clean install which includes wiping the hard disk first.

Raedwald · 08-08-2010 01:12PM

If you just installed the new Vista over the old one, this tends to happen.

You will need to wipe the hard drive first and re-boot the whole computer installing everything that was on it previously. If you can save everything on the computer that you need, cause no chance of getting it back.

jpl888 · 08-08-2010 10:57PM

It's possibly because the only drivers on the dell website for the Inspiron 1525 are 32 bit and you said you've installed Vista 64 bit.

You can find a 64bit driver at http://www.marvell.com/support.html I think if you choose 88e8000 from the list (the first entry) that will do, couldn't find one with xx in.

Hope this helps.

Trouble with Dell Inspiron 1525

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