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    FN + F7 = What driver for R4 to get that to work?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by J_Hizzal, Sep 7, 2012.

  1. J_Hizzal

    J_Hizzal Notebook Guru

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    So I'm fairly positive I have all the drivers installed correctly on my laptop (which took three dang weeks to get back from Dell....Dell, I despise you and you're crappy support), yet i cannot get the function keys to work. Is there a driver specifically for those? or do I need to configure them myself?
     
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    Start with the stock Dell drivers for your card then upgrade from there. That's the easiest path I have read about. You will need to uninstall all of your existing graphics drivers and clean them up before doing so though.
     
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    It was the OSD as I thought. I thought I had already put it on, but I guess not.
     
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    Okay so here is how to go about it (provided currently enduro is turned on) ... When you press fn + f7 your system would reboot .. now after reboot generally if you try opening CCC you would get some message saying driver not found or something like that. Now once you get that , also you would see in your device manager there would be two unknown devices in the "other devices" with something saying "VGA" on it. Now after this if you already have the 12.8 WHQL with you install it. It would reboot the system after the installation and you would be good to go :)

    PS:- Incase you dont have the driver here is t he link download from Guru3D.com
     
    navdeepz, Sep 8, 2012
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