Old Laptop Upgrade Advice

zubheir

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I have an old Dell Inspiron N5050 laptop that needs a ram and ssd upgrade.
The laptop came with windows 7.
I want to upgrade it and use windows 10.
However I dont see any drivers for this model on dells website.
I do have a disc with drivers but I think its for windows 7 only.

Do you think this will work? I need to know before I buy these components.
 

UrBaN963

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Seems possible, however, a few things to note.

1) Update BIOS to A05 first
2) Once installed, Let windows automagically download whatever drivers it finds for itself.
3) Uninstall the IDT Audio program [from Control Panel > Programs & Features]. This program is not compatible with Windows 10 and causes File Explorer to crash every 60 seconds!
 

ponder

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Seems possible, however, a few things to note.

1) Update BIOS to A05 first
2) Once installed, Let windows automagically download whatever drivers it finds for itself.
3) Uninstall the IDT Audio program [from Control Panel > Programs & Features]. This program is not compatible with Windows 10 and causes File Explorer to crash every 60 seconds!

This ^

If you do a fresh install of win10 step 3 will probably not even neeeded.
 

Rickster

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Seems possible, however, a few things to note.

1) Update BIOS to A05 first
2) Once installed, Let windows automagically download whatever drivers it finds for itself.
3) Uninstall the IDT Audio program [from Control Panel > Programs & Features]. This program is not compatible with Windows 10 and causes File Explorer to crash every 60 seconds!

I see the issue, in that dell article, it was a woman trying to install windows. Obviously failed.


/runs.
 
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