XP Media Centre Problems

I bought a laptop there recently second hand, a dell 1501.

I reformatted the hard drive as I wasn't too keen on happily using what it came with in case there was anything dodgy on the drive. PC worked perfectly.

It came with the installtion disks and all that and I have installed XP and Ubuntu, however the Dell Driver disk doesn't seem to be working and I can't get:

-Proper Graphics,
-Network Card working
-Wireless working

I presume this is because I don't have the drivers, but where can I get them and how do I install them?

Ubuntu works perfectly so there is no hardware problems.

Many thanks,

Z

BoB_BoT

you can download drivers from dells website. just go to support on their main page, enter your model or service tag and download the drivers.

here ya go, even easier CLICKY

Capt'n Midnight

if ubuntu is working you can use sudo lshw to get a list of hardware in your computer, sometimes the dell site can be a bit confusing as to exactly which device you have

Thanks for that!

Worked perfectly!

Dell must have shipped the wrong disk.

BoB_BoT

possibly, but I know some of the older driver disks had multiple drivers on them for different systems, probably when you popped in the disk it didn't detect with machine you had and expected you to install the drivers manually. Ah once it works that's all that matters