[spike350]

I recently did a system restore on my dell inspiron 1525 and seems to have "forgotten" to install a couple drivers. I tried formatting my hdd and rerunning the restore and every time there's a different driver missing (except for once where it just refused to boot). I'd really like to get out of BIOS soon. I have the windows vista reinstall disk plus the drivers and utilities disk (although I can't figure out how to run the latter).

[rockmilk]

Hi spike try a clean install.
http://www.vistax64....rade-vista.html

Then please post the service tag of your machine and I will locate the drivers for you.
http://support.euro....dhs&~mode=popup

[spike350]

Erm... I can't even boot... I'm stuck in BIOS unless I boot from disk. Otherwise I could get the drivers just fine.

[spike350]

(I'm on my tablet right now)

[phillpower2]

Be sure to install the drivers in the correct order or you will have problems http://support.dell....4&isLegacy=true

[spike350]

I'm not installing drivers individually. I'm running the install disk.

[rockmilk]

spike350, on 19 February 2012 - 01:47 PM, said:

Erm... I can't even boot... I'm stuck in BIOS unless I boot from disk. Otherwise I could get the drivers just fine.

Yes I understand that.If you do a clean install booting from your vista cd you should be good to go.

[rockmilk]

spike350, on 19 February 2012 - 01:54 PM, said:

I'm not installing drivers individually. I'm running the install disk.

You really need to install the chipset driver first Also you might wanna get the newest driver versions to avoid issues later on down the road.

[spike350]

That's what I'm doing. I run the disk all the way through. It finishes installing. It reboots. All [bleep] breaks loose . It goes into windows boot manager and says that it's missing a driver. It gives me the name of a .sys file and an error code (both of which change every time I reinstall and I'm reinstalling right now so I don't know the current one) I have what it says in another topic that no one read it's at the bottom of one called "restoring system"

[spike350]

All [bleep]... *facepalm*

[spike350]

Oh didn't see earlier post. How do I do that?

[rockmilk]

Sounds to me like your vista cd is messed up are there any visible scratchs/smudges/fingerprints on it Give it a good cleaning.

[spike350]

That's what I thought but it looks brand new. Plus, it's a different file every time.

[rockmilk]

Perhaps the HDD is going. But the only thing that I can think of is to try and disable AHCI in your bios.
http://www.mydigital...e-on-ahci-mode/
Prior to the install.

[spike350]

Randomly decided to work got it installed but when I starts up it says please wait like normal then the screen goes black for a second then it says please wait again. I T's not going past that