Drivers not showing up on Dell website

I'm doing a clean install of Windows 8.1 on my Alienware 17, but when I check the page where all the drivers should be some are missing?

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/alienware-17/drivers

For instance the chipset drivers aren't there anymore?

 

The crappy Dell Drivers team has done this since more than a week now as they are moving everything to a new site. Even on my Alienware 18 most the drivers are missing

here is the full page of all the drivers not pertaining to one's service tag but all the drivers in general, pick carefully only the stuff related to your laptop like the WLAN as it has all the WLAN drivers not the ones for your laptop specifically but the drivers are the same.

It also includes older and newer drivers to make sure you get the latest ones by checking the version numbers

thanks Dell for your crappy service and support:

http://downloads.dell.com/published/pages/alienware-17.html

 

ok thanks, any idea what Wireless Driver and Bluetooth driver I need? There is loads of them and its confusing!

Intel 802.11n/ac Wireless and Bluetooth 4.0 driver is what I can see on my original quote I go from the rep who sold the machine to me.

I've attached a thumbnail of my device list.

 

you need this:

Intel Dual Band Wireless AC7260 WiFi Driver 17.0.6 (Windows 8.1)

Intel Dual Band Wireless AC7260 Bluetooth Driver 17.1.1406.472 (Windows 8 .1)

 

Thanks. Any idea if i need the following drivers? They are the only ones I'm not certain of.

Dell Wireless 1550 WiFi / Bluetooth Driver
Qualcomm Killer Wireless-N1202 Driver
SIMG SB92xx Host Serial
Broadcom BCM4352 Wireless BT 4.0 Driver
Qualcomm LAN Killer E2201 Driver

 

No, why would you need them? you already showed me that you have an Intel WLAN+Bluetooth card, those drivers are for laptops that ship with other cards like Broadcom, Qualcomm, etc. you only want the drives I showed you plus the other basics like intel HM87 driver for the chipset, IRST, Intel Management Engine Interface, Card Reader, VGA, audio, etc.

 

ok but what is SIMG SB92xx Host Serial?

 

Dell took out the unnecessary drivers because win 8.1 carry them by default.
win 8.1 drivers are more updated and better in most instance.

 

no, Dell took them out as they are doing a transition to their new site

Windows drivers are generic drivers made to work on the majority of PCs and do not include any OEM optimizations.

I would never let Windows install any driver! not even the driver for my external USB drive!

so you're saying that the Windows update VGA drivers are better than the nVIDIA drivers for example? *eye roll*

 

The USB 3.0 driver is better, for example. MS video driver are whql driver from amd or nvidia. They maybe a few month old, but that doesn't make them better or worse.

Sent from my 306SH

 

Why use older graphic drivers if you can get newer or better from Nvidia or Amd ? Close driver downloads from windows update. It's Garbage..