I got a Inspiron N5010 a paper says to update drivers ??

My brother got dell inspiron n5010 and their was a paper insert that came with the latop that said first thing the owner should do is go to dell.com and look up the model/service tag and update the drivers.

So I was looking into this for him and checked out the dell.com and theres 34 categories and each having a few drivers within each category with some with more recent dates ? So which ones does he really need to update & how does he know which he has and which he really needs ? and does he uninstall the old first then install the new one ?

I looked in the Add/Remove section and many of the drivers thats on dell.com for his laptop are not even in the Add/Remove section ?

I know one thing graphics drivers need to be uninstalled frist before installing a newer one.

Anyway is there a rule of thumb I can go by ?

I will be getting XPS 15 very soon for myself and these questions I would asked for myself.

My XPS will have the GT 420M and was wondering if I should use the driver from dell site or should I get it from nvidia ? Will the laptop have a problem with me not using the driver from dell.com ?

thanks alot

 

Many times if you are used a manufacturer tattoo'd OS, graphics drivers from Nvidia/ATI will almost always fail.

It probably meant the latest Windows update as sometimes they have Windows 7 from when it came out, there are like 40-50 Windows updates since over a year ago.

 

No I was not talking about a Windows OS update from MS. I meant the paper says to go to Dell's website and look up if there are updated drivers for the laptop.

 

I always use the Nvidia video driver if I can. It's updated a lot faster to support the newest games and other fixes. But I don't think the current one from Nvidia supports the 420m in the Dell's but the latest beta drivers might.