Installation Instructions The file DXG061-010106.EXE is using the Hard Drive format and is designed to be directly executed from Windows environments. Click Download now. The File Download window appears.
Click the Save button. The Save As window appears.
Select Desktop using the drop-down menu to the right of Save in. Click the Save button. A progress meter moves as the download is completed. If necessary, click X in the upper right-hand corner of the Download Progress Window to close it upon completion.
NOTE: Shut down all other applications prior to running the BIOS update utility. The update utility reboots your system in order to get the new BIOS loaded. Double click the Icon on your desktop labeled DXG061-010106.EXE. The Dell Bios Flash window appears. Click the Continue button. The message Pressing OK will close all applications, shut down Windows, Flash the BIOS, then reboot.
Click the OK button. The system will restart and the Bios Flash will be completed.
Where can I find the drivers to an unknown device in the device manager, here is the message I get Unknown Device on Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28) There is no driver selected for the device information set or element. To find a driver for this device, click Update Driver. After a while my computer freezes, and then it doesn't boot up without being in safe mode. I already tried everything, I was originally on windows 8.1, I downgraded to windows 8, and now I am windows 7. Another thing is the display adapter will display a yellow triangle after the computer crashes, and then I try to re install my video drivers or downgrade, and even after I do so, the computer still freezes.
Actually the computer is not fully compatible with Windows 7 and that is why you are receiving the ACPI error. If you look on the Dell website you will see that dell has not provided support for either Windows 7 nor Windows 8. Dell only supports Windows XP and Windows Vista. The ACPI error is caused by the AMD Away feature that Dell implemented for Windows XP and Windows 7 does not support that feature. I have the exact same system and I have not been able to find a complete solution to the ACPI error. One website, notes there is no AMD Away driver for any Windows systems.
Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. What is the exact make, model, and series of the system/motherboard? There are some motherboards with hardware components that are not compatible with Windows 7 because of the lack of device drivers for them. You must do some research to find out the compatibility of your system motherboard with Windows 7.
Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. Actually the computer is not fully compatible with Windows 7 and that is why you are receiving the ACPI error. If you look on the Dell website you will see that dell has not provided support for either Windows 7 nor Windows 8. Dell only supports Windows XP and Windows Vista. The ACPI error is caused by the AMD Away feature that Dell implemented for Windows XP and Windows 7 does not support that feature. I have the exact same system and I have not been able to find a complete solution to the ACPI error.
One website, notes there is no AMD Away driver for any Windows systems. Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. Somewhere on the internet I found a package that set the device to null, but you the4n get a message in Windows 7 telling you the AMD Away is not supported in Windows 7. I found this several months ago when I was upgrading a Dell 531 for my aunt. I have looked around for the info but have been unable to locate it again.
The error could also be stopped if someone changed the flag in the BIOS. On the system I was working on there was no option to disable the AMD Away feature. So Dell screwed up when they programmed the BIOS with the AMD Away feature permanently enabled. Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
Where can I find the drivers to an unknown device in the device manager, here is the message I get Unknown Device on Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28) There is no driver selected for the device information set or element. To find a driver for this device, click Update Driver.
After a while my computer freezes, and then it doesn't boot up without being in safe mode. I already tried everything, I was originally on windows 8.1, I downgraded to windows 8, and now I am windows 7. Another thing is the display adapter will display a yellow triangle after the computer crashes, and then I try to re install my video drivers or downgrade, and even after I do so, the computer still freezes.
Actually the computer is not fully compatible with Windows 7 and that is why you are receiving the ACPI error. If you look on the Dell website you will see that dell has not provided support for either Windows 7 nor Windows 8. Dell only supports Windows XP and Windows Vista. The ACPI error is caused by the AMD Away feature that Dell implemented for Windows XP and Windows 7 does not support that feature. I have the exact same system and I have not been able to find a complete solution to the ACPI error.
One website, notes there is no AMD Away driver for any Windows systems. Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. What is the exact make, model, and series of the system/motherboard? There are some motherboards with hardware components that are not compatible with Windows 7 because of the lack of device drivers for them. You must do some research to find out the compatibility of your system motherboard with Windows 7. Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question.
This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. Actually the computer is not fully compatible with Windows 7 and that is why you are receiving the ACPI error. If you look on the Dell website you will see that dell has not provided support for either Windows 7 nor Windows 8. Dell only supports Windows XP and Windows Vista. The ACPI error is caused by the AMD Away feature that Dell implemented for Windows XP and Windows 7 does not support that feature. I have the exact same system and I have not been able to find a complete solution to the ACPI error. Htc ruu update utility.
One website, notes there is no AMD Away driver for any Windows systems. Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. Somewhere on the internet I found a package that set the device to null, but you the4n get a message in Windows 7 telling you the AMD Away is not supported in Windows 7.
I found this several months ago when I was upgrading a Dell 531 for my aunt. I have looked around for the info but have been unable to locate it again. The error could also be stopped if someone changed the flag in the BIOS. On the system I was working on there was no option to disable the AMD Away feature. So Dell screwed up when they programmed the BIOS with the AMD Away feature permanently enabled. Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question.
This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
Just to be sure I cover it all.here's a benchmark report. Also, I was told by a rep at the Microsoft Store that I need to choose 'Custom Install' and this will allow my upgrade.
MS does sell an Upgrade version of the program. Uh oh.maybe that 's intended for a Vista-to-XP Upgrade.what do you think? Here's the Belarc report.I did edit it some because therre was soooo much! Computer Profile Summary Computer Name: Yellowstone1639 (in MSHOME) Profile Date: Saturday, October 15, 2011 10:18:12 AM Advisor Version: 8.1p Windows Logon: David Plan for your next computer refresh. Click for Belarc's System Management products Operating System System Model Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 (build 2600) Install Language: English (United States) System Locale: English (United States) Dell Inc.
Inspiron 531 00 System Service Tag: D8QTCF1 (support for this PC) Chassis Serial Number: D8QTCF1 Enclosure Type: Desktop Processor a Main Circuit Board b 2.80 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 256 kilobyte primary memory cache 2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache 64-bit ready Multi-core (2 total) Not hyper-threaded Board: Dell Inc. 0RY206 Serial Number:.CNF7.
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz BIOS: Dell Inc. '.the Service Tag is D8QTCF1' Drivers & Downloads for Inspiron Desktop 531 Service Tag: D8QTCF1 The software for devices may be specific to your service tag specific configuration (only the devices your model came with are listed), or not (there may be more possible devices listed than your model has). Look in Device Manager in XP to see what it's listing for hardware devices, or find that in the results of a program such as the one you provided the results of running. Vista and Windows 7 has more built in drivers for devices than XP does, so there may be more drivers for devices listed for XP on the Dell site than are listed for Vista (or Windows 7). Since the model has either XP or Vista software / drivers downloads available, you should have no problem with installing Windows 7 on it. Since Windows 7 is essentially what Vista should have been in the first place and most things in it are identical to the same in Vista, if you can't find Windows 7 specific drivers for something, usually Vista drivers work fine.
One thing it's often important to do BEFORE you install the Upgrade. NOTE that sometimes the resident module(s) of anti-malware programs - a part that runs all the time scanning for suspicious activity in the background -will interfere with the proper installation of software, the software will not install properly, and you may get no indication of that at all while installing the software. To avoid that possibility, you should always DISABLE the resident module(s) of anti-malware programs, BEFORE you install third party software (software other than most Microsoft Updates, etc., that did not come with Windows ), especially when it's a major or complicated software package.
If you are using the free or paid version of AVG, you should disable the Resident Shield in AVG's 's settings in Windows. If you don't know how to do that, tell us which anti-malware software you are using.
When you are sure the software has installed correctly, re-enable the resident module(s). If you're installing the 64 bit version of Windows 7, uninstall all installed anti-malware software BEFORE you run the upgrade! Also, your anti-malware software may be a specific version for XP 32 bit only (all versions of XP except Pro 54 bit are 32 bit). If you're not sure whether it's compatible with Windows 7 32 bit, uninstall all anti-malware software BEFORE you install the Windows 7 upgrade!.
Your computer presently has 3gb of ram installed according to your info. That's sufficient to run Windows 7 well. 'NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 Display adapter' If that's a graphics card installed in a mboard slot, that's the better situation. If it's the onboard - built into the mboard - video adapter, your video and your 3gb of ram installed in the mboard will perform better if you install a graphics card in a mboard slot instead. You haven't said whether the Upgrade DVD is for Windows 7 32 bit or 64 bit. If it's for the 64 bit version of Windows 7, you can install up to and including the max amount of ram you can install in your model's mboard, but you MUST use drivers/software that are meant to be used with the 64 bit version of Windows 7 (or Vista). If it's for the 32 bit version of Windows 7, 3gb of installed ram is an ideal max amount to have.
The 4gb virtual memory address limit for 32 bit operating systems. An example of 3gb working better than 4gb in a 32 bit operating system. See Response 6. Jam's explanation refers to links on other sties. A better explanation I've seen. If you have a 32 bit operating system and you have installed 4gb in the mboard, the amount of that ram available to Windows and the user is 4gb minus the amount of ram your devices require or have.
minus the amount of ram shared with onboard video if you're using that - and/or - minus the amount of ram your dedicated video card installed in a slot has. If you have more than one video card installed in a slot,it would be minus the ram for all of them.
(and = Some mboard main chipsets have Hybrid video capability. If you have a PCI-E X16 video card installed in a mboard slot that is supported by that feature, it's often the default for both the onboard video and the video on the card to work at the same time, unless you change default bios Setup settings. In that case it would be minus the ram for both of them.) - minus the amount of ram your sound adapter has, if that applies - e.g. Sound cards installed in a mboard slot often have ram - minus the amount of ram any other devices have,other than hard drives and optical drives,if that applies. If the monitor is plugged into a video port up high on the back of the case where most of or all of the ports are, it's an onboard video adapter it's plugged into and it's sharing the ram installed in the mboard.(An onboard - built into the mboard - video adapter IS NOT a video CARD!
) If there is a video port further down on the back of the case in a card slot by itself that the monitor is plugged into, that's a video card (a video adapter on a removable card), it has its own ram, and the ram installed in the mboard is probably not being shared with it. If you have video ports in both locations, your mboard has onboard video but usually installing a video card in a PCI-E X16 slot causes the mboard's bios to automatically disable the onboard video and the ram installed in the mboard being shared with it - in that case the onboard video port produces no video whern there's a card in the PCI-E X16 slot. There are drivers listed for video cards on the Dell site for your model, but I'm not sure whether your mboard also has onboard video. 'Upgrade from XP to 7 is perfectly OK' Depends on what you mean by 'upgrade'. As I stated, XP is NOT a viable upgrade path to Win 7. A Custom Installation will result in you losing all your programs & data. Nothing will transfer over.
Your programs will need to be reinstalled from scratch & it's possible that some of them will not work at all. Did you download & run the Win 7 Upgrade Advisor I posted in response # 1? This was taken from following Microsoft link.
Read what I put in bold: 'To upgrade your PC from Windows XP to Windows 7, you'll need to select the Custom option during Windows 7 installation. A custom installation doesn't preserve your programs, files, or settings. It's sometimes called a 'clean' installation for that reason. A custom installation is more complex, and it can sometimes take a couple of hours to complete.' Go to the Microsoft web site and read everything you can find regarding using the Windows 7 Upgrade DVD, THEN decide what you need to do. If you do need to do it, copy or backup all the personal data that you DO NOT want to lose to some other location other than the hard drive partition you are going to install Windows 7 on, BEFORE you do the upgrade. You DO NOT need to copy or backup programs or data that you can easily install again.
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In XP, ALL of your personal data is saved here by default, unless you saved it to a non-default location: C: Documents and Setings (your user name) (your user name's files and subfolders) XP has a Files and Settings transfer wizard program, but I have not used it. It's results may be useless if you are installing Windows 7 64 bit. If the upgrade is for Windows 7 64 bit, you may need to obtain Windows 7 64 bit compatible versions of programs that you were using that you want to install again. The Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor will tell you at least some of which programs you have installed in XP that are not compatible with being used in Windows 7.
'I am still disturbed that the Dell site does not show my model (Dell Inspiron 531) as compatible with Win 7 but I'm going ahead anyway' They're only listing the model series they have TESTED. The 531 series not being on the list doesn't necessarily indicate it's not compatible with Windows 7. Since it IS compatible with Vista, and Windows 7 is merely what Vista should have been and most of it is identical to Vista in the background, I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't be. If Microsoft's Upgrade Advisor says it will be fine with Windows 7, then it will be. Similarly, when you have a retail mboard model, they usually have a list of ram modules they have TESTED with the model, but it's a rather limited list. You can use any ram that is listed when use your retail mboard or brand name system model number to look up which ones can use on a ram manufacturer's or ram distributor's web site that has a ram configurator or similar, which gives you many more to choose from. If you can't actually do an upgrade (use your existing settings etc.) from XP to Windows 7, then you would have been better off buying the OEM version of Windows 7, which is always a FULL version, from a local place that has computer parts and software that has it available.
It's required that you buy hardware along with it but the hardware need not be major. The OEM version is cheaper than the retail FULL versions because you provide your own support - there is no limited time free support from Microsoft.
Hello guys my dell is seeming more and more like a disappointment I cant play full screen streaming videos the screens just goes to white and gray and some games just crash. I downloaded all updates for everything but still no help, I am thinking that its the sound card too but i dont know for sure. Can someone, anyone help I need to play my games. Ok my setup is as follows. Operating System Windows Vista Home Basic (build 6000) Dell Inc.
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Inspiron 531s 00 Enclosure Type: Desktop Processor a Main Circuit Board b 2.10 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 256 kilobyte primary memory cache 1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Dell Inc. 0RY206 Bus Clock: 200 megahertz BIOS: Dell Inc.
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