I have a Inspiron 1420 that I recently aquired. It has a OPR853 motherboard
with a Pentium T2390 dual core cpu and it was running an older version of Vista 32bit.
I picked it up free because it wasn't working correctly so the original owner bought a new laptop.
It is in excellent condition but it had a couple of viruses and some miscellanious malware/spyware
on it which is why it did not work at first. Instead of disinfecting it I formatted the HDD and installed
Windows 7 Home premium 64bit . The problem is I need updated drivers for the mainboard,
touchpad, and chipset but I can't seem to find anywhere. I tried using the available vista drivers from
the Dell website, but they are either incompatible or uninstallable. This machine seems to work very
well with this version of windows, it even boots up in less than 1/3 the time but unfortunately not all the
hardware works correctly because of the missing drivers. I would really appreciate it if someone
could help me with this problem.
May God's grace and blessings be on us all in the new year :-)