Dell Inspiron 2500

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Contents 1 Hardware 2 Hardware Status Overview 3 Dell Laptop guides 4 Generic Laptop guides

[edit] Hardware

15 inch display @ 1024×768
Intel Mobile Celeron, Pentium III or Pentium 4 processors
Intel i815EM chipset (ICH2-M)
Up to 2GB RAM
Intel 815G or NVIDIA GeForce2 Go
Synaptics touchpad
hard drive
DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo optical drive
Floppy drive
3Com 3c905C Fast Ethernet
Lucent LT winmodem
Intel AC'97 Audio with Sigmatel 9700 codec and built-in microphone
USB 1.1
O2 Micro  OZ6933 PC Card controller
parallel port
serial port

[edit] Hardware Status Overview

	Device	Working	Driver	Troubleshooting
Processor	Processor
Drives and Storage	Hard Drive		ata_piix
	Optical Drive		ata_piix
	Floppy Drive		usb_storage	Needs USB support
USB	USB		uhci
Graphics	Intel		i915, intel
	NVIDIA		nvidia
Input Devices	Keyboard		keyboard
	Touchpad		synaptics
	Functions Keys
Networking	Ethernet		3c9xx
	Modem	unknown	ltmodem
Sound	Sound		snd-intel8x0
Other	PC Card	unknown	yenta_socket
	Hardware Sensors	unknown	i8k
	Suspend to RAM	unknown
	Suspend to Disk	unknown

[edit] Dell Laptop guides

Dell specific laptop guides:

• Dell Function Keys
• Dell Hardware Sensors
• Dell BIOS Upgrade
• Dell Utility / System Restore / MediaDirect
• Dell Docking Station

[edit] Generic Laptop guides

Some generic laptop guides:

• ACPI
• Power Management