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Inspiron 5000e - Need Intel Chip Set Update Utility for O/S Reinstall
Where do I get or find the Intel Chip Set Update Utility for a Dell
Inspiron 5000e notebook PC? In the section on Reinstalling Windows Me and Windows 98, the 'Solutions Guide' indicates, "NOTICE: Make sure that you reinstall the Intel Chip Set Update Utility driver before you reinstall any other drivers." I have the following CDs: Dell Product Recovery CD - Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition Drivers and Utilities - Dell Inspiron 5000e System Software Backup - Dell-Installed Programs If the Intel Chip Set Update Utility is on one of these I don't recognize its folder name or filename. Is it supposed to be just a .inf file? Or is it a .exe application? I have checked the Downloads section and Reinstall Guides section of the support site without finding a clue. The ftp site has dozens of files in the 'chipset' directory, but the filenames give no indication what product they are for. Please help! WC |
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Go to the Intel web site, click on "Support & Downloads" and "Download Center".
Next, click on "Chipsets" and "Intel Chipset Software", and finally "Intel Chipset Software Installation Uitlity". This works for ANY brand of motherboard with an Intel motherboard chipset and ANY Windows release. http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scri... submit=Go%21 .... Ben Myers On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:29:20 GMT, Wampus Cat wrote: Where do I get or find the Intel Chip Set Update Utility for a Dell Inspiron 5000e notebook PC? In the section on Reinstalling Windows Me and Windows 98, the 'Solutions Guide' indicates, "NOTICE: Make sure that you reinstall the Intel Chip Set Update Utility driver before you reinstall any other drivers." I have the following CDs: Dell Product Recovery CD - Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition Drivers and Utilities - Dell Inspiron 5000e System Software Backup - Dell-Installed Programs If the Intel Chip Set Update Utility is on one of these I don't recognize its folder name or filename. Is it supposed to be just a .inf file? Or is it a .exe application? I have checked the Downloads section and Reinstall Guides section of the support site without finding a clue. The ftp site has dozens of files in the 'chipset' directory, but the filenames give no indication what product they are for. Please help! WC |
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ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote:
Go to the Intel web site, click on "Support & Downloads" and "Download Center". Next, click on "Chipsets" and "Intel Chipset Software", and finally "Intel Chipset Software Installation Uitlity". This works for ANY brand of motherboard with an Intel motherboard chipset and ANY Windows release. http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scri... submit=Go%21 ... Ben Myers On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:29:20 GMT, Wampus Cat wrote: Where do I get or find the Intel Chip Set Update Utility for a Dell Inspiron 5000e notebook PC? In the section on Reinstalling Windows Me and Windows 98, the 'Solutions Guide' indicates, "NOTICE: Make sure that you reinstall the Intel Chip Set Update Utility driver before you reinstall any other drivers." I have the following CDs: Dell Product Recovery CD - Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition Drivers and Utilities - Dell Inspiron 5000e System Software Backup - Dell-Installed Programs If the Intel Chip Set Update Utility is on one of these I don't recognize its folder name or filename. Is it supposed to be just a .inf file? Or is it a .exe application? I have checked the Downloads section and Reinstall Guides section of the support site without finding a clue. The ftp site has dozens of files in the 'chipset' directory, but the filenames give no indication what product they are for. Please help! WC Also download the Intel Chipset Identification utility if you are unsure which chipset you have. Q |
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Useful, but not necessary. The latest version Intel Chipset Software
Installation Uitlity works with all motherboard chipsets going back to the 440BX, 440EX, and 440ZX and everything up to the present. Of course, if a computer has an earlier unsupported chipset, the Intel utility will simply not install... Ben Myers On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 08:56:39 -0600, "Quaoar" wrote: ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote: Go to the Intel web site, click on "Support & Downloads" and "Download Center". Next, click on "Chipsets" and "Intel Chipset Software", and finally "Intel Chipset Software Installation Uitlity". This works for ANY brand of motherboard with an Intel motherboard chipset and ANY Windows release. http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scri... submit=Go%21 ... Ben Myers On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:29:20 GMT, Wampus Cat wrote: Where do I get or find the Intel Chip Set Update Utility for a Dell Inspiron 5000e notebook PC? In the section on Reinstalling Windows Me and Windows 98, the 'Solutions Guide' indicates, "NOTICE: Make sure that you reinstall the Intel Chip Set Update Utility driver before you reinstall any other drivers." I have the following CDs: Dell Product Recovery CD - Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition Drivers and Utilities - Dell Inspiron 5000e System Software Backup - Dell-Installed Programs If the Intel Chip Set Update Utility is on one of these I don't recognize its folder name or filename. Is it supposed to be just a .inf file? Or is it a .exe application? I have checked the Downloads section and Reinstall Guides section of the support site without finding a clue. The ftp site has dozens of files in the 'chipset' directory, but the filenames give no indication what product they are for. Please help! WC Also download the Intel Chipset Identification utility if you are unsure which chipset you have. Q |
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ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote:
Useful, but not necessary. The latest version Intel Chipset Software Installation Uitlity works with all motherboard chipsets going back to the 440BX, 440EX, and 440ZX and everything up to the present. Of course, if a computer has an earlier unsupported chipset, the Intel utility will simply not install... Ben Myers On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 08:56:39 -0600, "Quaoar" wrote: ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote: Go to the Intel web site, click on "Support & Downloads" and "Download Center". Next, click on "Chipsets" and "Intel Chipset Software", and finally "Intel Chipset Software Installation Uitlity". This works for ANY brand of motherboard with an Intel motherboard chipset and ANY Windows release. http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scri... submit=Go%21 ... Ben Myers On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:29:20 GMT, Wampus Cat wrote: Where do I get or find the Intel Chip Set Update Utility for a Dell Inspiron 5000e notebook PC? In the section on Reinstalling Windows Me and Windows 98, the 'Solutions Guide' indicates, "NOTICE: Make sure that you reinstall the Intel Chip Set Update Utility driver before you reinstall any other drivers." I have the following CDs: Dell Product Recovery CD - Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition Drivers and Utilities - Dell Inspiron 5000e System Software Backup - Dell-Installed Programs If the Intel Chip Set Update Utility is on one of these I don't recognize its folder name or filename. Is it supposed to be just a .inf file? Or is it a .exe application? I have checked the Downloads section and Reinstall Guides section of the support site without finding a clue. The ftp site has dozens of files in the 'chipset' directory, but the filenames give no indication what product they are for. Please help! WC Also download the Intel Chipset Identification utility if you are unsure which chipset you have. Q Thanks for the info. It's about time that Intel got around to this. Q |
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Actually, Intel's web site and downloads have been this way since Pentium III
days. But it's been a quiet secret... Ben On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:09:53 -0600, "Quaoar" wrote: SNIP Thanks for the info. It's about time that Intel got around to this. Q |
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ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote:
Actually, Intel's web site and downloads have been this way since Pentium III days. But it's been a quiet secret... Ben On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:09:53 -0600, "Quaoar" wrote: SNIP Thanks for the info. It's about time that Intel got around to this. Q I cannot tell if you are being facetious, but in any event, in the perhaps twenty times I've been on Intel's site for drivers, I've never seen any indication that the installers were universal, either on the sites or in the user notes. I've often thought that Intel does try to make the support site unnecessarily user-unfriendly, probably to prevent the casual user from screwing up their hardware installation. Q |
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Really, it's a quiet secret. Nope, Intel does not tell you that the drivers
apply universally. Nor do VIA with their chipset drivers, or Creative Labs for (now) old-time audio drivers, or just about any one of the chipset manufacturers (ATI, Martrox, nVidia, 3COM, Broadcom). The industry practice is not to tell people much of anything. People are expected to get their drivers from the name brand manufacturers' web sites, end of story. And both name brand manufacturer and chipset manufacturer disclaim all responsibility if you install drivers that are not on their web site. Then chipheads like myself, stuck doing a reinstall or refurb without any name brand manufacturers' original CDs, read the chip IDs, go to the chip manufacturers' web sites, download the drivers there (sometimes even called "reference drivers" to mislead the uninformed further), install them and they work fabulously. Or I'll get a system to fix up with reinstall of full OS with a 4th rate name brand like HP or eMachines, find out of course that the name brand manufacturer totally disses its customers by having ZERO drivers on its web site. So off I go, reading chip IDs, etc. etc. etc. Now the secret is not as quiet, eh? ... Ben Myers On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:55:46 -0600, "Quaoar" wrote: ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote: Actually, Intel's web site and downloads have been this way since Pentium III days. But it's been a quiet secret... Ben On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:09:53 -0600, "Quaoar" wrote: SNIP Thanks for the info. It's about time that Intel got around to this. Q I cannot tell if you are being facetious, but in any event, in the perhaps twenty times I've been on Intel's site for drivers, I've never seen any indication that the installers were universal, either on the sites or in the user notes. I've often thought that Intel does try to make the support site unnecessarily user-unfriendly, probably to prevent the casual user from screwing up their hardware installation. Q |
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Thanks, Ben. The Intel chipset installer appears to have done the
job. I'll be less inclined in the future to be spooked by the 'only use our utilities' spiel. WC On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:32:43 GMT, ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote: Really, it's a quiet secret. Nope, Intel does not tell you that the drivers apply universally. Nor do VIA with their chipset drivers, or Creative Labs for (now) old-time audio drivers, or just about any one of the chipset manufacturers (ATI, Martrox, nVidia, 3COM, Broadcom). The industry practice is not to tell people much of anything. People are expected to get their drivers from the name brand manufacturers' web sites, end of story. And both name brand manufacturer and chipset manufacturer disclaim all responsibility if you install drivers that are not on their web site. Then chipheads like myself, stuck doing a reinstall or refurb without any name brand manufacturers' original CDs, read the chip IDs, go to the chip manufacturers' web sites, download the drivers there (sometimes even called "reference drivers" to mislead the uninformed further), install them and they work fabulously. Or I'll get a system to fix up with reinstall of full OS with a 4th rate name brand like HP or eMachines, find out of course that the name brand manufacturer totally disses its customers by having ZERO drivers on its web site. So off I go, reading chip IDs, etc. etc. etc. Now the secret is not as quiet, eh? ... Ben Myers On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:55:46 -0600, "Quaoar" wrote: ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote: Actually, Intel's web site and downloads have been this way since Pentium III days. But it's been a quiet secret... Ben On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:09:53 -0600, "Quaoar" wrote: SNIP Thanks for the info. It's about time that Intel got around to this. Q I cannot tell if you are being facetious, but in any event, in the perhaps twenty times I've been on Intel's site for drivers, I've never seen any indication that the installers were universal, either on the sites or in the user notes. I've often thought that Intel does try to make the support site unnecessarily user-unfriendly, probably to prevent the casual user from screwing up their hardware installation. Q |
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