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    How to go about installing Win10 on my Alienware 17 correctly?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by DoubleKneebar, Feb 18, 2016.

  1. DoubleKneebar

    DoubleKneebar Newbie

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    I have done so once before and a few games didn't work properly, although I had only installed the Nvidia Driver and the Win10 audio drivers. Do I need to install every one of the drivers on the Dell site pertaining to my systems service tag or just some of them? Whats the way to do it properly?
     
    DoubleKneebar, Feb 18, 2016
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  2. GodlikeRU

    GodlikeRU Notebook Deity

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    I always install every driver except graphic driver which is most important and need to be installed in newest version from nvidia.com

    If you won't install chipset driver you are asking for problems with BSODs, RAID and so on. Windows 7/8 standard touchpad driver doesn't even have scrolling, so install synaptic driver from AW page.
     
    GodlikeRU, Feb 19, 2016
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    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    I usually install all of them as well. The nVidia drivers are better for graphics performance, you could get them from nVidia GeForce Experience. Our drivers are updated only if there are issues with the current version on the site.
     
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    So I install all drivers that show up for my service tag on dell website and I should be good to go? Are any of the drivers the same as the Win 8.1 versions?
     
    DoubleKneebar, Feb 19, 2016
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  5. otosan

    otosan Notebook Consultant

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    Yes, you can go that way. Just install all the drivers from Dell page.

    Then after that, go to your device manager and update the driver for Intel SMBus and HD graphic from there. The one from Dell is not the latest version. Causing AHCI not detected properly. (at least in my SSD Case)

    for AlienFX, you need the 3.6 version if im not mistaken, don't use the 4.0 one. Also make sure you got net framework 2 - 4 installed before installing AlienFX and OSD
     
    otosan, Feb 26, 2016
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