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Drivers for old laptop

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First post, by Kargaroc

Posted on 2011-09-18, 13:02

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I have an old laptop (a Dell Inspiron 3200), that I still use quite a bit. I installed Windows 2000 on it, and one of the problems I've been having with it was the drivers. There isn't really any problem... it's just... there NO Windows 2000 drivers for the video and audio. Sure, with such old hardware, Windows 2000 has it's own drivers for everything, but I really want the original drivers, as I think they might be better.

I was wondering if WDM drivers exist for the video and audio of this laptop at all.

Documentation
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/SYSTEMS … twist/specs.htm

Short list of specs
Pentium II Deschutes at 233 MHz
i440BX chipset
NeoMagic 2160 2MB (Windows identifies this as a MagicGraph 128XD)
Crystal 4237B

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Reply 1 of 4, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2011-09-18, 13:05

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You could try your luck with Windows NT 4.0 drivers in case they exist.

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Reply 2 of 4, by swaaye

Posted on 2011-09-18, 18:41

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I don't remember Neomagic drivers being available from anyone other than the OEM computer builders. Neomagic was also well on the way out of existence by the time Win2k arrived.

Reply 3 of 4, by RichB93

Posted on 2011-09-18, 19:36

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I had an ACER with the same graphics. Couldn't find NT4.0 drivers for it and don't recall ever having 2K drivers either, although I do seem to remember XP having some kind of support for it so maybe you could use those if you extract them from XP?