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    Dell Alienware M17X Missing CoProsser driver

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by noreaster, Oct 2, 2009.

  1. noreaster

    noreaster Notebook Geek

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    In my device manager im missing the coprocessor driver. were do i get that?
     
    noreaster, Oct 2, 2009
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  2. Mandrake

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    That's more than likely the smu driver which is part of the chipset package.
     
    Mandrake, Oct 2, 2009
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  3. noreaster

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    well i installed that driver and still i dont know hwy its there. can someone send me a link to download the drivers and fix it.
     
    noreaster, Oct 2, 2009
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  5. Mandrake

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    Let me guess this is for Windows 7. LINK
     
    Mandrake, Oct 2, 2009
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    yes windows 7
     
    noreaster, Oct 2, 2009
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  7. Glzmo

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    Go to the device manager and manually install the driver for it. Point it to the chipset driver directory. This is a known issue with Windows 7, so I assume you're using that. A proper Windows 7 chipset driver release by Dell/Nvidia should fix the problem in the future.

    EDIT: I've just seen Mandrake's post. Try that driver.
     
    Glzmo, Oct 2, 2009
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  8. Mandrake

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    The link I provided should fix it then.
     
    Mandrake, Oct 2, 2009
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