broknindark
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My system is a Dell Inspiron 531s. AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+, geForce 6150SE, and the nForce 430 chipset. No extras except for the DVD burner....and the audio is the onboard Realtek HD Audio
Orignally my computer came with the x86 version of Vista Home Premium. I wanted to switch over the the x64 version of Home Premium since my system is 64 bit so I contacted Dell to send out the x64 disk. They did so for free (I was surprised.).
On support.dell.com, there are only the 32bit drivers for my system since you can't buy it as a 64bit install. So I went to Nvidias page and downloaded the latest x64 drivers for my graphics and chipset. Windows setup did have default drivers for everything, but it read my graphics card as a geforce 6100 so the wrong drivers were installed.....and the chipset drivers were out of date......so I went ahead and replaced them with Nvidias latest ones.
Now when I go into device manager on the x64 install, there is a random unknown device. The only thing missing thats on the x86 install is under "Storage Controllers" and its called "AKSN1ZQ1 IDE Controller". I find this kinda weird to be there at all since I don't have any IDE ports in the box, everything is SATA including the DVD burner. I do have VM Ware Workstation installed on the x86, is the AKSN1ZQ1 IDE Controller a driver for VMWare? If so, what would be the Unknown device under the x64 install?
I downloaded all the x64 Vista driver packs from driverpacks.net and had device manager search the downloaded folders, but it didn't find any drivers that would work with the "unknown device"...
I guess the Athlon 64 X2 has the "AMD AwayMode", and there is a 32bit package for that on the Dell site (and AMDs site), but I can't find x64 anywhere. Could that be what it is?
I checked dxdiag and it didn't show any problems with anything either....
Dell support is just about pointless, they won't support a 64 bit install on this machine unless I pay for their Dell On Call service (200 bucks)...
Orignally my computer came with the x86 version of Vista Home Premium. I wanted to switch over the the x64 version of Home Premium since my system is 64 bit so I contacted Dell to send out the x64 disk. They did so for free (I was surprised.).
On support.dell.com, there are only the 32bit drivers for my system since you can't buy it as a 64bit install. So I went to Nvidias page and downloaded the latest x64 drivers for my graphics and chipset. Windows setup did have default drivers for everything, but it read my graphics card as a geforce 6100 so the wrong drivers were installed.....and the chipset drivers were out of date......so I went ahead and replaced them with Nvidias latest ones.
Now when I go into device manager on the x64 install, there is a random unknown device. The only thing missing thats on the x86 install is under "Storage Controllers" and its called "AKSN1ZQ1 IDE Controller". I find this kinda weird to be there at all since I don't have any IDE ports in the box, everything is SATA including the DVD burner. I do have VM Ware Workstation installed on the x86, is the AKSN1ZQ1 IDE Controller a driver for VMWare? If so, what would be the Unknown device under the x64 install?
I downloaded all the x64 Vista driver packs from driverpacks.net and had device manager search the downloaded folders, but it didn't find any drivers that would work with the "unknown device"...
I guess the Athlon 64 X2 has the "AMD AwayMode", and there is a 32bit package for that on the Dell site (and AMDs site), but I can't find x64 anywhere. Could that be what it is?
I checked dxdiag and it didn't show any problems with anything either....
Dell support is just about pointless, they won't support a 64 bit install on this machine unless I pay for their Dell On Call service (200 bucks)...
