Re: WindowsXP x64

Praising Jesus wrote:
Sorry, I didn't mean to reply to just you. I was using "Gravity" (from SourceForge.net) in Windows 7 since they took out Mail, which had the only Newsreader I had. I must have hit the wrong "reply" button and just sent my response to you.

Thanks for the response. Someone found the driver for me. I appreciate your prompt reply.

-Mike


"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Ovsz7uQ0JHA.4632@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Praising Jesus wrote:
I have a new Dell XPS Studio 435M which is a 64 bit processor. It
has the Intel I7 920 processor and 6Gb of ram. It also has the
Intel 82567LF network card, and I am trying to load Windows XP x64
edition and can't find anything that resembles useable drivers for
it. The 64 bit Vista drivers worked for the Intel chipset, video
card and sound card, but nothing seems to work with the network
card. Does anyone know why the drivers aren't recognized or how to
get XP x64 to recognize that card?
Shenan Stanley wrote:
Only Dell would know - or the original manfacturers of the products
in question that Dell used.

Are you saying you ordered this system with 6GB of memory from Dell
with a 32-Bit OS originally? (Waste of memory, eh?)

If you ordered it with a 64-bit OS - you should have gotten a driver
CD/resource CD with it and/or can download it...

Or did you not check?
Praising Jesus wrote:
Neither, the I7 920 only came out this year. The system came with Vista Home 64bit edition - which is very slow and many legacy programs don't run on it. Consequently, I formatted my disk and loaded WindowsXP x64 as the primary operating system. However, the Intel NIC is about two years old, and came out with many of the 64 bit systems. I even have literature from the NIC manufacturer that says the driver is supposed to work with the NIC and XP 64, but for whatever reason, the system won't recognize it. I don't know if it is the I7 processor that is conflicting with it, or if there is a simple XP fix out there - thus the question.

The only two unknowns I have is the I7 and whatever Gnostic information Microsoft has about how to recognize a NIC. The hardware works because I am multi-booting and have Vista Ultimate 64 bit working and Server 2008 64 bit working (except it doesn't like the Radeon 4800 HD video card). So the problem isn't in the hardware, it's somewhere in the software.
Since you replied to me outrside the newsgroups - I have taken it upon myself to continue the conversation in the newsgroups.

I will now tack on the response I made to myself on the newsgroups for a complete conversation...

Shenan Stanley wrote:
Are you sure on that model?

You said : Dell XPS Studio 435M

sure it is not a

Dell Studio XPS 435MT

??

If so - Dell ships it with 64-Bit Vista and doesn't look like they
support it with anything else. Between the 64-bit OSes Microsoft
provides the consumer level - I have found Vista to be much more
reliable/driver friendly than the 'nearly abandoned from the
beginning' Windows XP Professional x64. ;-)

Studio XPS Desktop 435MT drivers and such:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?SystemID=STUDIOXPS435MT&os=WV64&osl=en

Given what you have (the network controller by chipset), I should
also ask if you tried the manufacturer's web page? Specifically:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProductID=3003&DwnldID=8719&strOSs=All&OSFullName=All%20Operating%20Systems&lang=eng

You may also want to go directly to the manufacturer of the other
hardware for the other drivers too. Especially Video, sound and
chipset. Actually get the ones for the OS you have chosen to
install.
And then address some of the things you have said...

"many legacy programs don't run on it" <-- chances are they may not run on Windows Xp Professional x64 either. :-( Virtual Machines - solves many problems, just isn't used as much (and many people still multi-boot because they either actually need to or don't know any better.)

As for the NIC - I read your response - but since it doesn't seem to take into account my second response and I cannot be sure if we are referring to the same thing - I will ask...

This driver for your NIC...

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProductID=3003&DwnldID=8719&strOSs=All&OSFullName=All%20Operating%20Systems&lang=eng

... does not work in your Windows XP Professional x64 boot? That is specifically the Windows XP Professional x64 driver for that NIC straight from Intel. You also may want to find the chipset driver there as well - instead of using the Vista x64 one (unless they happen to be the same on Intel's page.)

As for the ATI card not working in server - not really surprising... But you might try the Windows Vista x64 driver:
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=vista64/common-vista64
(Option 2 - Display Driver Only.)

"So the problem isn't in the hardware, it's somewhere in the software" <- I never implied anything else - you may have by posting in the hardware newsgroup, however. ;-)

After my second posting, I realized the machine you chose would have come with Windows Vista only. If it did not come with CD/DVDs - that is because you did not spec it with CD/DVDs. ;-) The drivers (from Dell anyway) are still available for download from Dell - although they will only give you what *they* (Dell) support. Your best bet is at the actual manufacturer web sites. Intel, ATI, etc.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html





Yep I saw that.
Glad you got it going!
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