Dell Latitude D610 drivers

Having replace the HDD on my Dell Latitude D610 laptop I've reinstalled Windows XP. I now need to find and install the drivers.

I managed to find the network card driver so I could connect to the internet. I need to get the WiFi & sound drivers as a minimum.

The Dell driver download area seems less than helpful despite putting in the Service Tag. Or perhaps I'm misunderstanding Dell's descriptions of the drivers.

Is there any handy little utility I can run that will scan the laptop, identify the drivers needed, download them, and install them?

I've tried the Dell one, that was a waste of time.

I've been trying DriverPack Solutions but that seems to be going very very slow (around 0.6-0.7Mbit/s) when downloading the driver packs.

Any helpful suggestions (dumping the laptop is not helpful!).

Eventually managed to find WiFi & sound drivers that worked so perhaps all now sorted.

Finding the right drivers when (re-)building a system has always been something of a black art in my experience.

I have always found te Dell Support site quite good for providing drivers for teh PC. You need te Dell application installed along with service tag but after that it is normally a reasonable process.

Got WiFi and sound sorted, all is well.

Except...

I cannot get a suitable Codec so the D610 can play DVDs via Windows Media Player V11.

Yes I know other Media Players exist, but WMP it is to be. And previously WMP could play DVDs, (and I'd built that system 18 months ago ). Nero Media Player plays DVDs, but not WMP.

I've tried K-Lite Codec, Xvid, and other Codec packs, but so far unsuccessfully. Clearly I'm missing something.

Any thoughts?

Sorry, can't help with that one. I have WMP v9 on my D600 and that certainly plays DVDs without a problem.

Any idea what codec?

No!

I ran WMP and got the "Update Now" message but said no. I then played a DVD - all good. Closed WMP then re-ran it, this time I allowed the update and it updated to WMP11. I created a system restore before though.

WMP runs fine and plays DVDs.

If you can point me to where the codecs should be located I can have a look and see what is there.

Here is the direct link to the drivers for your laptop on the Dell's website:

http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/uk/en/ukbsdt1/Pr...

Some of them might not be applicable for you as they would cover different configurations of the same laptop.

Edited by deleted (Fri 02-May-14 14:51:50)

Thanks, that's similar to the list I got when I put the Service Tag in.

Looking at the list, there are 71 listed of which 3 are marked Urgent (1 of which is a User Guide), 27 Recommended, and 41 Optional.

In fact the only ones I found I needed were WiFi, Audio, and Broadcom network drivers.

Just need to get DVD working now, though that is a much lesser priority.

For the time being the laptop has gone back to my church as it's used for services. I'll bring it home when I have time and try to sort the DVD issue.

Is this any help?

It reports the installed MPEG-2 decoders as:

Sonic Cinemaster Video Decoder 4.1 CinemasterVideo.dll v 4.1.1.0
CyberLink Video/SP Decoder DELL 5.3 CLVSD.ax v 6.0.0.2314

Thank you. When I have time, and the laptop back here, I'll follow up.

Replying to myself to update this.

First a slight digression.

Found at church this morning that the laptop wouldn't drive an external monitor (projector) at the same time as the laptop's screen. As I'd anticipated possible problems I'd taken my own laptop which I knew worked OK.

So I brought the church laptop back home lunchtime to sort it. The problem was caused by me not installing the specific video driver. As Windows had installed a working video driver I'd thought that was all OK. When I installed the correct one the external monitor sprung into life simultaneous with the laptop screen.

I then decided to progress the non-playing DVD issue. I put a (commercial) DVD in - and it played perfectly straight away. I tried a home-made DVD, also played fine. So I tried the (commercial) DVD that I'd used previously to test the laptop, that played fine.

I have to assume therefore that the DVD was playing but the absence of the correct video driver meant the laptop couldn't process the DVD video data properly and hung up.

Ah well, another lesson learned

Thanks for that too - I tried using the Dell Updater software, but it did literally nothing...

in my case I had to:

* run the latest drivers for the D610 from the dell web site
* look for the latest drivers for a similar dell D630 / D6xx and then install the later drivers. Once done all burst into like.


then 2-3 days later the D610 expired and went for recycling. I blamed it on the dog to the other 1/2... Now looking for a new laptop