it seems ALOT of people have been posting the same issue of their inspiron 1525 repeatedly gobbling up new hard drives unexplainably. faulty motherboard wiring of the SATA controller seems to be the most likely explanation, unless there's some step or oddity that i'm missing here.
A friend of mine has an inspiron 1525, freshly out of warranty. and it had a hard drive failure. before consulting me (her first mistake) she brought it to geeksquad and their diagnosis was a new drive and with labor the bill would be $300ish. fortunately she declined, as i told her this was a very cheap/easy fix and i'd take care of it. Ordered a new SATA notebook drive and i expected to simply pop it in, re-install vista, some chipset/lan drivers, and be cruising within an hour.
after placing the new drive in and booting a fresh vista install from the setup DVD, vista setup told me the drive would likely fail soon. since it was brand new and well packed i figured this must be an issue of not booting windows setup in IDE NATIVE mode. I poked around in BIOS setup and couldn't find IDE native mode, but instead, turned off flash cache and set AHCI back to ATA mode. i figured this was the same thing, a legacy compatibility mode that'd allow windows to set up smoothly and that windows would automatically set it back to the optimal SATA setting once we were up and running.
this did not help.
another thread had recommended the possibility of checking the new drives jumper and capping it to SATA 1.0 speeds. This seems plausible, and i am yet to try this. but i'm going to soon and will report back my findings. that doesn't explain the first hard drive (which was factory OEM) failing, but since laptop hard drives DO spontaneously fail (especially when their owner is a 17 year old girl) i'll give it the benefit of the doubt.
advice anyone?? again, this seems to be a RECURRING problem with this model and i'm yet to find a hardened solution from other threads/and or other sites.
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I recently reinstalled Windows Vista in a friends computer but now she can't connect to the internet. The device manager has warning signs under the following:
- Standard VGA Graphics Adapter
- Base System Device (three of these are under other devices)
- Network Controller
- Video Controller
I'm guessing it's the network controller that's preventing connection to the internet so I want to install this properly but it says the manufacturer is unknown. I downloaded the Marvell Miniport driver for the computer but I don't know how to get it working.
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I'm just wondering how I can find and install the needed drivers for a Dell inspiron 1525.
Dell Inspiron 1525 Drivers Vista
Endocorneelius
Start here at Dell Support and click on drivers and downloads. Enter your computers information.
Well I have done this but I'm not 100% sure what I am looking for for the network controller.
Pick the best one you can match up with your system. If it does not work, pick another. Won't hurt. Be sure to choose under the Vista category.
Blue tooth is probably not it. If you are talking wired then the 10/100 would be it. Then there are only three wireless. If it were I, I would try the first ont, the one with the most models.
Hi, sorry didn't manage to get back. I got on to the Dell customer service and they directed me to the driver needed but it still didn't work. I think there might be a problem with the switch that turns the wireless on and that might be the problem.
@ Endocorneelius, Click the link below and enter your Dell Service Tag number which is located on a sticker somewhere on your PC/Laptop.
All the drivers for your computer will be listed for download.
http://www.dell.com/support/dr.....tSelection
Dell Inspiron 1525 Video Controller Driver Windows Vista From Cnet Windows 7
Jim
Should be a Dell Wireless 1395 WLAN Mini-Card. That's what my 1525 has.
When you get to the Dell site make sure you select a model 1525 and download your main drivers. You need to install the mobo chipset driver before installing the others. (Audio, Video, Webcam, and any others). Burn them to a disk so you have them for future use. You might want to save the Dell link.
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I'll give this a try when I see her next. Thanks for the posts, I'll post back when I see how it goes!!
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