One more thing... I've just had the std BSOD from the attempt to update, results of failure not showing up on settings page/update history, curiously. Reviewing the setupdiag output reveals nothing,...

Good morning Denis
I decided to try the chipset update. Why not, curiosity got he better of me.
I rebooted after the chipset update. A few extra flashes of 'stuff' I didn't spot at restart, but...

Denis,
All good, happy to accept we've had a bonus with Win 10 lasting this long. With the X300 drivers there were some minor irritations with the tag-based dell-supplied X300 drivers around the...

Graphics card:- I got a like-for-like replacement after the spillage. ATI Mobility Radeon X300. The driver followed it up to 1709 from Vista - I always looked for latest version, currently that is...

I've re-enabled sleep by re-installing the ATI Radeon X300 original graphics card driver which seems to run fine in 1709 but had been demoted on basis of it being well past retirement and likely to...

Denis,
Sleep not an item in the dialogue box or option in any of drop downs. Fast start was on. Now FS, hibernate and lock are off, and only setting for power button is shut down, no other options...

The timer task can't work because my PC won't support sleep states according to the powercfg (that I'm new to and now curious to learn more about!) It says the firmware doesn't support S1 nor S2,...

Hi Denis,
I will set off a task with a wake challenge in it and report what happens, as I can imagine that having my museum piece do some periodic grunt work would be a useful way for it to fade...

Oh well, thanks for trying mate, mine has just come back from same old BSOD (and I'm not quick enough with the camera either!) but we know it all too well! This time it has tried to apply 1809 x86...

Not yet, that would be the next step - once I know that there's a good chance the core hardware works because another kind soul shares their success, and the compromises to achieve the goal are...

Hi Peter, Denis, thanks for responses.
I tried with speedstep disabled and with the driver signing check disabled at win10 boot. Fail. My OS set up is also out of whack in that it is alternating...

Hi - I had a few spare moments to see if I could revive my Dell Inspiron 9300 and go for the 1903. Don't judge!!! I have just finished a round of updates on all my other newer kit and felt a sense...