I have an old Dell latitude C800 laptop. I recently purachased a 120gb HR to replace the 40 gb that crashed and no longer works. I placed the connector on the new drive and placed into the laptop. When I start the computer I pressed F2 and entered into the bios. The bios version is A09. The bios does not recohnize the hardware nor the optical CD drive. Do I need to format the drve? Do I upgrade the bios to A23? Thanks

Chuck Gluth

• 90 Answers
• Posted on Oct 23, 2007

SOURCE: just re installed windows xp on new hard drive, built-in speakers no longer functioning

Visit support.dell.com, click on drivers and downloads, and then click on the service tag option.... enter the service tag from the bottom side of the laptop... it will then display the list of drivers for that laptop.

Download and install the audio drivers and any other ones that you need.... let me know if that solves it for you. Make sure they are for your laptop model and operating system.

Tim Babcock

• 2794 Answers
• Posted on Jul 19, 2008

SOURCE: How to upgrade a Dell Latitude CPX - Intel P3 500-650 laptop

You might be able to get some more memory for it and a bigger hard drive. Depends on what the model number is.

SOURCE: How to upgrade a Dell Latitude CPX - Intel P3 500-650 laptop

I have the same laptop, it has (currently) 256 Mb ram and I have win xp installed, It runs fine with no problems, upgrading the ram to 512 (max mem it will hold) willmake it run faster, I hope this helps

SOURCE: Latitude C800 Memory slots

Go to www.crucial.com allow their program to run on your machine and it will give you a report on what memory you can fit

If you are in the UK it is www.crucial.com/uk

More to the point it will tell you what is the maximum memory the machine will take

Crucial also supply memory at good prices and to date nothing they have supplied me with has failed to work

SOURCE: INSPIRON 1300 upgrade from 40 gb to 120gb seagate

Here is a 160GB drive that is compatible
http://cgi.ebay.com/160GB-Dell-Inspiron-1000-1100-1150-1200-1300-Hard-Drive_W0QQitemZ230432634980QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item35a6daf864#ht_3146wt_1165