I have 4 new Dell Inspiron 6400's here at my work, we ordered 4 brand new ones, 2gb of memory and they all had Vista on them, so we have to wipe them.

I just upgraded to Windows 7 on my Dell E1505 and I seem to have everything working except a couple base system device's showing up bad in the device manager and i read about using the driver for the 370 instead of the 350 which i have in this machine see here here are screen shots of my device manager problems, and the bluetooth issue,it seems to be there now but not functioning and has a red X there. It says not connected and i can't figure out how to connect it,maybe i just dont know how to set it up(apparently) Any help would be great!

Thanks in advance. All the Vista 32 bit drivers will work for your system except for Bluetooth. Do not use the Vista 32 bit driver for the Bluetooth. Use the Bluetooth 370 driver R226750,  I have an Inspiron 6400 and the Vista driver would crash Windows Explorer R226750 works perfectly. Once the driver is installed reboot and press Fn and F2 (wifi/bluetooth switched off) wait 10 seconds and press Fn and F2 again (wifi/bluetooth switched on). Full install instructions for this system are available. Note this system has Media Direct.

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I recently installed my WIndows XP home edition with service pack 2 to my laptop and some of the drivers for my dell inspiron e1505 are missing. I tried going to the dell website to install the drivers and the application file could not be read (EXE files). The only reason i reformatted my computer because i started receiving messages like 'application could not be read by win32'. Unable to verify windows xp w/o internet access. The missing drivers are(under other drivers): ethernet controller, pci driver, base system device X3, network controller, SM Bus controller, Video Controller, Video controller (vga compatible).

I already tried connecting my ethernet cord directly to the cable modem and it still doesn't work. Usually people that visit just have to connect their internet cord to access the internet.

I tried connecting wirelessly and i have a feeling that driver is missing on my dell. I tried setup a connection and doesn't work the option that automatically detects internet. Before i formatted the computer, the computer had no problems connecting wireless and to the internet. Just all the these drivers are gone. If only i cannot connect to the internet i should be able to go to dell sites and install software.