Question : Can a Dell XP Home reinstallation cd for a PC be used for reinstallation of XP Home on Dell laptop without having any issues?

I am asking this because I have successfully reinstalled the operating system with the above mentioned (Title) cd however, Device Manager is showing Network Controller, Video Controller, Video Controller VGA Compatible problems.


System Information --->System Summary --->Hardware Resources --->Conficts/Sharing

I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7      PCI bus
I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7      Direct memory access controller

IRQ 20      Intel(R) 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB Universal Host Controller - 27C8
IRQ 20      Intel(R) 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 27CC

IRQ 4      Network Controller
IRQ 4      Intel(R) 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller - 27DA

IRQ 21      Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for High Definition Audio
IRQ 21      Intel(R) 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB Universal Host Controller - 27C9

Memory Address 0xFFA80000-0xFFA83FFF      System board
Memory Address 0xFFA80000-0xFFA83FFF      Intel(R) 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 27CC

I/O Port 0x000010C0-0x000010DF      Intel(R) 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller - 27DA
I/O Port 0x000010C0-0x000010DF      System board

IRQ 18      SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller
IRQ 18      Ricoh MMC Host Controller
IRQ 18      Ricoh Memory Stick Controller
IRQ 18      Ricoh xD-Picture Card Controller

IRQ 19      Intel(R) 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Root Port - 27D6
IRQ 19      OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller

Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF      PCI bus
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF      VgaSave

Memory Address 0x3F700000-0x3F7FFFFF      System board
Memory Address 0x3F700000-0x3F7FFFFF      System board

I have updated Bios, chipset, drivers from Dell. I am wondering if these issues are because of the OS disk or because I may have loaded the wrong updates from Dell. Please Help!!!!!!

Thanks in Advance,

TT

Answer : Can a Dell XP Home reinstallation cd for a PC be used for reinstallation of XP Home on Dell laptop without having any issues?

This issues are more likely to be with drivers - use either the driver disk that came with the laptop or search on its Service Tag on their support site for the correct set for your specific model.

Always install the Chipset driver before any other.

You shouldn't install a BIOS update if everything was working last time.