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    Dell Drivers

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by bigimac, Oct 1, 2010.

  1. bigimac

    bigimac Newbie

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    Is anyone else having issues downloading drivers from the Dell website? I reinstalled my OS and am now trying to get the Dell drivers and they wont download. I click on download and the page loads forever then I get webpage not found. I tried web download and thru the download manager (which never really works). Any one else having this issue? Its just with Dell I have no other issues with any other download.
     
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  2. DR650SE

    DR650SE The Whiskey Barracuda

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    I would go in and delete all browsing history, cookies, ect, and try again. I have issues once in a while. When your on the site, click the actual driver so it takes you to the page dedicated to the driver, and than from there click download. You can't do it from the list of drivers. Clicking that download button never really worked for me either. But if I click the driver title, it takes me to the page that has the issues and fixes ect. It also has the file name, such as R123456.exe. Click the file, and from there download should come up, choose Download from browser, than it should start.
     
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  3. The Sand

    The Sand Notebook Consultant

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    I have had it happen as well... I actually had to the get the BIOS download from here the other night - no matter what I did I couldn't make it happen.

    And like you, I have had to reinstall my OS and sat on Dell's site struggling to get them all... I think it's them. Some days it's okay and some not so much.

    Sorry not much help... just letting you know I have been frustrated by it as well...
     
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  4. bigimac

    bigimac Newbie

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    DR650SE Thanks for the reply yeah I cleaned my system and then clicked on the title and it worked just fine.
     
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