I picked up an inspiron 8600 yesterday . It was suffering from mass vidoe corruption but after I set a lower resolution I was able to mostly see the screen and figured Id tinker with it.
I was unable to pinpoint any issues using the troubleshooting utility. All test came back functional. I ran memtest for a few loops and that was fine. I decided to try a clean install of xp home ( thats what came with the machine )
After install it was all good till I tried loading drivers. If I install the inf update for the chipset I get corruption and nothing short in reinstalling will fix it. If I use the drivers bundled in xp home I can load all drivers it works great.
If I try to use an xp disk with sp2 the problem comes back. If I try to upgrade to sp2 the issue comes back.
Any ideas how I can get sp2 on this machine and still be useable?
UPDATE: It upgrades from home vanilla to sp3 just fine.
I was unable to pinpoint any issues using the troubleshooting utility. All test came back functional. I ran memtest for a few loops and that was fine. I decided to try a clean install of xp home ( thats what came with the machine )
After install it was all good till I tried loading drivers. If I install the inf update for the chipset I get corruption and nothing short in reinstalling will fix it. If I use the drivers bundled in xp home I can load all drivers it works great.
If I try to use an xp disk with sp2 the problem comes back. If I try to upgrade to sp2 the issue comes back.
Any ideas how I can get sp2 on this machine and still be useable?
UPDATE: It upgrades from home vanilla to sp3 just fine.
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