Drivers right? How do I determine which and where to get the drivers. I have a dell inspiration 531 Desktop running XP Home. I reformatted the hard drive...I know big mistake. Did not back up drivers or get a list of hardware. But I do have a service tag. JBGP3G1. I would also love a network controller... you know to get online! I thought XP had generic versions to get you started with. HELP!
Where do I get SM Bus and Simple Comu. Controllers?
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LookinAround
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Try the Dell Support site for your service tag. You can also click the Analyze button, see what they recommend
http://www.dell.com/support/my-support/us/en/19/product-support/servicetag/JBGP3G1
http://www.dell.com/support/my-support/us/en/19/product-support/servicetag/JBGP3G1
LookinAround
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You can still look at the list of drivers based on your service tag and selecting Windows OS. There's only one driver listed for XP on the dell site for XP and your tag. Download http://www.dell.com/support/drivers...leId=2731102778&languageCode=EN&categoryId=NI
Hi, I went back to Dell and tried to download the network controller. It did not do anything. It asked which program I wanted to open with. I went to site downloaded onto usb flash drive. Tried to open program on my newly reinstalled XP Home. NO program to open with. Next I will try to download 7zip. Hopefully that will work...if I open it first. I will let you know. Thanks!
Wow. Am I in the right spot? It can not be that difficult to get help finding a XP Network controller diver download for the A Dell inspiration 531. The download will not work at Dell. Maybe I am doing something wrong. But I have fixed about 10 dells. I even found sound drives from other systems for xp pro os changes. But this is frustrating and only one person has been kind enough to at least reply. Dell is not the answer...unless I am some how downloading and coping wrong the driver download. Some else have any ideas or just some generic driver that will get me online? Once online...the original OS is XP Home and I have a service tag. All I did was reinstall the OS. with the factory Dell OS disc. I wish I would not have reformatted. In small print the disc does say OS only no drivers included. HELP!!!!
LookinAround
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Understand that everyone here volunteers their time. It's a holiday week here in the States. So it will likely be slow around here for a bit longer....
That said.. I downloaded the Dell driver myself. I get a file named R183381.exe. It's a self-extracting file. In my case, when I run it, it unpacks the files then starts the nVidia driver install.
In any event, I created a zip file version for you click HERE. Unzip to extract the files and run then double click the setup.exe to run it
That said.. I downloaded the Dell driver myself. I get a file named R183381.exe. It's a self-extracting file. In my case, when I run it, it unpacks the files then starts the nVidia driver install.
In any event, I created a zip file version for you click HERE. Unzip to extract the files and run then double click the setup.exe to run it
Jad Chaar
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After clean-installing Windows 7 I got missing drivers for the SM bus and a few others. I am not worrying since my system is stable, and Windows was not able to find a driver. I wouldnt worry unless you run into issues. But, if you are reluctant to fix it, @LookinAround seems to be getting somewhere!
Hi I am just frustrated. I tried to use the zip file. I am running Windows 7 (64) on my computer. I am using Nero 11 and burning a data disc. I have tried saving to disc, saving to desktop in a file to disc. I have used a usb flash and saved both ways to that. R183381_exe does not open or run on either my computer or the XP computer. Neither does the zip. The only thing I got to run on both machines was a download of Everest. It actually had the Icon of a Zip file. And unpacked and installed perfect on the XP. So I believe this is a formatting or tag error. Why is the Everest Zip recognized but not your zip or the file from dell?
I just went and renamed the files...changed the _ to a . My computer recognized the files! Ha! I am going to run down stairs and try to rename the files on the XP computer. Could it be that simple? Thanks for all your help. I will let you know if this works. Either way you have been awesome! Thanks, again! Ynotbme
LookinAround
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Good catch! (y) Though it's curious why the character in the filename was changed??
Maybe by your antivirus?? In any case, hope it now works@JC713
just fyi, should it be helpful in the future.. SM Bus is a data controller for low bandwidth devices. Typically (at least based on what I've seen) if the chipset drivers don't resolve it, it usually means it's part of a 3rd party device on your machine (perhaps a card reader)
Jad Chaar
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Ah! Most likely! I installed the chipset drivers so it must be the card reader! Thanks!!!!Good catch! (y) Though it's curious why the character in the filename was changed??
@JC713
just fyi, should it be helpful in the future.. SM Bus is a data controller for low bandwidth devices. Typically (at least based on what I've seen) if the chipset drivers don't resolve it, it usually means it's part of a 3rd party device on your machine (perhaps a card reader)
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