DELL Inspiron N4050 Windows XP Driver

Update 1: may 18 2013
Dead link updated, more drivers directly from DELL added.

CHIPSET:
Intel Chipset Driver version 9.2.0.1015
Download

MEI
Intel (R) Management Engine Interface
Download

AUDIO:
IDT 92HD87B1 High Definition Audio Driver
Download

GRAPHIC:
Intel HD Graphic Driver
Download

ATI  Radeon HD6470M

This one is a problem where the are no drivers yet compatible with this devices, even after the installation you will get one driver not installed in the device manager. The hardware ID for this model is: PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_6760&SUBSYS_05031028. As for now, the only best suggestion i can give is using mod tools and i can't confirm it will installed correctly. you can also try for 6970M.

APPLICATION
Dell QuickSet, v.10.09.25, A00
Download

WIRELESS:
DELL (Broadcom) Wireless 1701 802.11b/g/n Driver
Download

ETHERNET:
Realtek RTL8111E-VB Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Download

CARD READER:
Realtek RTS5138 Card Reader Driver
Download

MODEM:
Conexant D400,External USB 56K Modem
Download

VIDEO
Dell Digital TV Receiver DVBT-01, v.4.2.10.27180, A02
Download

BLUETOOTH:
Wireless 1701 Bluetooth v3.0+HS
Download

EXTRA NOTES:

1. Chipset The driver compatible with both winddows Xp and Windows 7. 

2. Dell QuickSet Application is a hotkey driver software, but this features only applicable for windows vista and windows 7.

ETHERNET INSTALLATION:

If automatic installation stop, or no installation after extracting the file.

1. Download the driver and extract it (using winrar).

2. Remember where you extract it .

3. Click START and select RUN, type DEVMGMT.MSC and press enter.

4. A device manager  will open, right click on the network marked with yellow and select UPDATE DRIVER.

5. Driver Update wizard will appear, select no if it asked to connect to the internet. NEXT.

6. Select ADVANCE, click browse and browse to the driver folder you extracted earlier and continue with on screen instruction.

(if not working)

7. On step 6 don;t select browse but select the last option "DONT SEARCH, I WILL CHOOSE THE DRIVER TO INSTALL"

8. Select have disk and browse to the folder we extracted earlier. Then select Netrtle.inf, OK and continue with on-screen instruction.

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Compaq Presario F730EE Windows XP Driver

Description:
Please Install according to order:
Before installing the driver i strongly recommend to install the netframework:
Net Framework:
Download

Chipset - From Nvidia
Nvidia nForce 630a - Windows XP/2000
Version: 14.10 Release Date: May 3rd, 2007
Download

Chipset Driver - From HP
 NVIDIA nForce Chipset Driver (C51/MCP51)
Version 8.61A  60.53MB
Download

Graphic/VGA
nVIDIA GeForce 7000M Video Adapter
NVIDIA 32-bit ForceWare GeForce Go 156.55 Download
NVIDIA 64-bit ForceWare GeForce Go 156.55 Download

Wireless
(2 drivers, choose 1 base on your specification)
Broadcom Wireless Driver (sp37950.exe)
Version 6.20E 6.98MB
Download

Atheros 2011 Wlan Driver for XP, Vista and 7
Version 9.20  89MB
Download

Audio/Sound
Before installing audio driver, you need to install MS-UAA frist and restart.

1. MS UAA(required with a reboot before installing audio):
Download


Then Install the audio
Conexant SmartAudio 221:
Download
 
Install the audio driver and ignore if there is an error.
1. Click on Start and select Run. Type DEVMGMT.MSC and press enter.
2. Right click on "Audio device on High Definition Audio Bus" and click Update driver.
3. Select "Install from a list or specific location"
4. Click Next. Then select "Don't search, I will choose the driver to install"
5. Click Next and then select "Sound, video and game controller".
6. Click Next and then click Have Disk.
7. Click Browse C:\swsetup\sp34200 folder and select the .inf (wis30b2a) file and click open and

Continue with the onscreen instructions.
Ignore XP when it complains.
Reboot.
 
Input
HP Quick Launch Button
Download

Touchpad
Synaptics Touchpad 
Version:10.0.13.2, 24.26M
Download 


Card Reader
Ricoh 5 in 1 Card reader Driver:
R5C832/843 RICOH Controller
Download

Lan/Ethernet
Installed with chipset installation.


Modem:
Conextant Modem Driver
Download (sp33742) 
or
Download (sp37817)
(if direct install failed, install using the same method as audio installation)

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Updates

Apologies for not posting anything recently. I have been very busy with the start of the new university year. Since things have calmed down a bit now, I have found time to tidy up the Freeware page on this blog, as well as adding a few Linux applications to the list.

If you would like to share your favourite freeware packages with your fellow readers, feel free to add a comment to this post with a link to the web site for the software.

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LibreOffice 3.4

I have featured OpenOffice.org on this blog a few times in the past. It is a free office suite featuring a word processor, a spreadsheet program, and a presentation maker. Until recently the software was produced by Oracle Corporation, but fears that they would cease to support the project or stop it being open-source resulted in many of the programmers setting up their own project: LibreOffice.



LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.org (now produced by Apache Software Foundation), so users of the latter will make an easy transition to the former. The application names have been carried over: Writer is the word processor; Calc for spreadsheets; Impress for presentations; and so on. Furthermore, the look and feel of the packages has changed little.



Version 3.4 of LibreOffice offers many improvements on version 3.3. There is much better memory management and less of a reliance on Java. Calc is more compatible with Microsoft Excel. But the most improved application is Impress, which flies along compared to the old version.



The continuing development of LibreOffice seems assured, whereas OpenOffice,org appears to be in limbo. For that reason LibreOffice is now my office suite of choice and I would recommend users of OpenOffice.org switch over to its latest version.

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What is that character called?

If you look around your keyboard, you will notice a number of keys with characters on that you may not know the name of. In this post I will tell you the most common names for those esoteric characters. I am only looking at those characters that appear on my UK qwerty keyboard. I will explore those special characters and symbols that don't appear on the keyboard in future posts.

¬
This is called 'not' and is most commonly used in propositional logic and mathematics. It may not appear on all keyboards.

¦ and |
'Vertical bar' or 'pipe' is used in mathematics and computer programming. It can be 'broken' or 'unbroken' as shown.

^
'Caret' a.k.a 'hat', 'wedge' and 'chevron' is used in mathematics, logic, computing and to indicate ordinals in Italian.

~
'Tilde' is used in a variety of ways, such as indicating an approximation as well as the usual suspects: mathematics, logic and computing.

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Recent freeware releases

It has been some time since I last posted on this blog. In that time there have been a number of major new software releases. These include version 4 of the Firefox web browser, version 11.04 of the Ubuntu family of Linux operating systems, and version 4.8 of the XFCE desktop environment for Linux.

Firefox v4
The latest version of this web browser sports a new look, more similar to that of Google Chrome. According to Mozilla the latest Firefox is much faster than previous version, making better use of the graphical processing unit to lessen the load on the computer's CPU. I have been running the Linux version (which doesn't have the fancy new look) for a couple of weeks and it does indeed seem to be quicker.


Ubuntu v11.04
Codenamed Natty Narwhal, version 11.04 of this Linux operating system makes use of a new default shell interface called Unity rather than the GNOME shell. This move has annoyed some users and according to some reviews the release has a number of bugs. This may induce some Ubuntu users to switch to derivative distributions: the Kubuntu with the KDE interface, Lubuntu with the lightweight LXDE interface, or Xubuntu that uses XFCE desktop environment, all of which are also now version 11.04.

XFCE v4.8
Speaking of XFCE, it has received it's first major upgrade in over two years. This is my desktop environment of choice and I looked forward to experiencing the new features including a fancy new panel. While v4.8 still has a few minor bugs, it is still usable.

If you would like to share any other recent free software releases with other readers then feel free to leave a comment with a link.

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How to compress images in Word and Powerpoint

Inserted images in Word and Powerpoint may appear small, but they are actually stored as their original size unless compressed. This can cause printing to take a long time and needlessly increase file sizes. Thankfully there is a way to compress images in both these applications.

Office 2000, XP and 2003

Open the view menu and select 'Pictures' from the 'Toolbars' sub-menu. The picture toolbar, as shown below, should appear.

Click on the 'Compress pictures' icon (highlighted in orange on the above picture).

This opens the following window.


Select 'Web/Screen' for the highest level of compression, or 'Print' for a lower level. Make sure that 'Apply to' is set to 'All pictures in document', and click 'OK'.

You may then receive the following warning. If you do, click the 'Apply' button.



Office 2007 and 2010

Click on any image to enable 'Picture Tools', and click the 'Format' tab shown below.


Click the 'Compress Pictures' button (highlighted in orange on the above picture), to open the following window.

Select whichever level of compression best suits your purposes. Make sure that 'Apply only to this picture' is not selected, and click the 'OK' button.

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