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Install Windows XP onto Dell M6400 laptop

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#1 ·
I purchased a M6400 off of e-Bay. It came with a clean hard drive. Loaded XP successfully but internet is not coming up. Control panels "Device manager" states its a Broadcom NetXtreme 57XX Gigabit Controller. When you double click, "This device is working properly" The driver is Broadcom 5/21/2010 version 14.2.0.5 The file name is b57xp32.sys In addition the "Device manager" has question marks on all the "Other Devices" Is this my problem, or does XP just not work on M6400, or do I just have the wrong driver, or is the hardware damaged? Thanks in advance, Ken
 
#3 ·
I bought a refurbished Dell Precision M6400 WorkStation 17" laptop from www.overstock.com about 2 years ago.
It originally came with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit and was later refurbished with the same operating system.

It has full driver support for Windows XP 32-bit and 64-bit, so all of its primary devices(chipset, graphics, audio, ethernet, touchpad, etc.) should work okay.

What's the "service tag" number and/or "express service code" number on yours?

When you installed Windows XP, did it include its latest service pack?
(SP3 for the 32-bit version, SP2 for the 64-bit version)

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#4 ·
You got to love this!!! I am finally on line with the internet, SORT OF. I was able to go to microsoft (START->ACTIVATE) and activate my Windows XP. But get this. Internet Explorer 6 was on the installation CD. But IE6 will not let me get to microsoft for anything else. I can get to Dell, but the site will not let me visit them with IE6, I get there but it stops me. I want to use GOOGLE as my browser so who cares. But I can't get to Google either with IE6. Google doesn't allows for "downloads", only "installs". So I can't even download it to another machine and bring it in. HELP -Ken
 
#6 ·
You can download Google's Chrome browser here if the link works for you :- https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/

If that didn't help run Windows Update and it should upgrade IE (to version 8 I think) which should let you get Chrome.

EDIT : just saw your post #5 - you should still run Windows Updates though !
 
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Make an Image of the hard drive with Macrium Reflect free version :- http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
Install it then make the restore CD/USB stick by clicking - 'Other Tasks' > 'Create Rescue Media' - you will boot from this to restore the Image.

You can store the Image on an internal or external hard drive but not onto the same partition(s) it contains.

This explains how to make an Image :- http://knowledgebase.macrium.com/di...p+image+of+your+computer,+drive+or+partitions

This explains how to restore an Image :- http://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW/Restoring+a+system+image
 
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