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by sue.ritter 1 view

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Configuring a brand new Inspiron 6000 and running into trouble with video driver install.

The Inspiron came with Windows XP Home installed and we use Windows 2000 in our office so I installed Windows 2000 from the CD, then I installed all of the windows updates available (like I do every time we get a new PC or laptop) and of course, now I need to reinstall all of the drivers.

I have downloaded all of the required files from DELL's website and installed them with no problem except when I attempted to install the video driver.

I get the following error every time:

"This system does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software. Setup will exit."

The drivers is an Intel Graphics Video Driver, Vers. 6.14.10.3929.

The video card is an ATI Mobility Radeon X300 so I also tried to install the video driver offered for that and I get this error:

"INF error. Video driver not found Try to setup your display adapter with a standard VGA driver before running setup."

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm completely stumped at this point.

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by sue.ritter

That is the driver I attempted to install and got the INF error.

I booted from the Windows 2000 CD, then deleted the partition and formatted as NTFS.

by moxymeehan

Just an idea, it seems when you updated windows it took the liberty of installing graphics drivers for your video card.
Have you tried to uninstall the card & reboot the pc, then when prompted to install the video drivers again browse to the location of downloaded X300 drivers on your hardrive.

by moxymeehan

Just an idea, it seems when you updated windows it took the liberty of installing graphics drivers for your video card.
Have you tried to uninstall the card & reboot the pc, then when prompted to install the video drivers again browse to the location of downloaded X300 drivers on your hardrive.

by willcomp

Should have stated that using ATI driver is preferable method. Will be most current.

by gary aitchison

In my experience with installing video drivers supplied with a Dell system, you download the driver and extract the files. You then go to the properties of your video card in Device Manager and select update driver and then browse to the .inf file that you have extracted. Has worked everytime for me.

by sue.ritter

I figured this out on my own. It took a little messing around (and a rather pointless call to DELL) but it is now working fine.

by samshanmugam

hi suzi:

i get the same problem when installing ATI radeon x300 graphics driver downloaded from dell site. all other drivers get installed without any problem.

could you please tell how got it corrected.

thanks,
s

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