If you need to know what drivers you need, go to Dell's site with your service tag number. It will show you what hardware shipped with your system (all the devices listed that you will need drivers for. Copy down the device type to the letter (it makes it much easier to find the right drivers that way. You need to then download the xp drivers from Dell's site for your hardware and use a file extractor program (Ex: Winzip, 7-zip) to extract the files (even if it an .exe file it has an archive of files in it) to a new directory you create and provide a name for it to make it easy for you to locate. Once you have your new directory created, extract the downloaded driver file into it, and when you finish loading it into the new directory, look for a file that looks like a piece of paper with a little blue gear in the bottom left hand corner of the icon. it should be hte setup .inf file which is your driver file you will use. Go to the device manager then click on the device you are putting the new driver into. click on the device and then you will see a window, select the bottom selection which will indicate you will find the driver yourself. then on the next window, select the bottom selection again, which will give you the option to select the device you are loading, click have disk (the disk is the file you extracted and stored on YOUR HARD DISK. Find your directory, and follow the directory down until you find the .inf file. Click on it, then click next and it will show you the device driver you are about to install. Click next again, and it will load the driver. once completed it may prompt to restart the system, which once done the new driver will be loaded and working. Good luck. You need to do things old school sometimes to make windows work. My name is JD and I am a certified Dell systems technician, and am currently using an Inspiron 6000 with W7 Pro loaded with no driver issues. Everything works fine. if you need any help with this my email addy: jd.scot@yahoo.com