Having problems with your Dell Inspiron 1420 Notebook ?

I recently reformat my inspiron 1420 dell laptop from vista to xp home edition, all the drivers are properly installed and functioning but the video card or the VGA driver cant be installed, tried every driver installer on the net, even going to the the dell website for the download of driver but still it wont work. NVIDIA geforce 8400m gs rev:A03 is my vga ... pls help.. thanks in advance

Answers :

I found this site in the first shot. Just go to google search and search for the driver that you want.\015\012And if you fail to do it then go to http://drivers-download-driver.com/tag/nvidia-geforce-8400m-gs-rev-a03. Start using google for such searches.

Well I don't know exactly why it is messing up, but here is a possible solution. I know that the link below doesn't pertain to your computer, but follow the instructions in the forum link:
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\015\012http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=175074
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\015\012Here are the drivers directly from invidia for your card. Use these in the formula from the above post:
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\015\012http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_notebook_winxp_185.85_whql.html
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