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Reinstalling Windows on old computers - small tip
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David
Dec 17, 2023, 3:26:09 PM12/17/23
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I'm battling with a clean install of W10 on an old Dell XPS13.
So old I'm not sure what OS it started with.
Anyway.
If you find loads of unknown devices in Device Manager, and Dell insists
that all your drivers are up to date, but you suspect Intel and Realtek
drivers (for example) are missing.
Look at Windows Update because included in Additional Options is a list of
Drivers.
So far I have fixed all but one of the Unknown Devices and I have an audio
controller at last.
I thought I was going to have to plough trough an archive list of drivers
trying to find the right one, but this seems (for once) to be very useful.
I have no idea why Dell/Intel/Windows can't just check the Unknown Devices
and try to fix them.
There was an obvious awareness of a Realtek device, for example.
Just thought I'd share in case anyone else hits a similar problem.
Cheers
Dave R
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AMD FX-6300 in GA-990X-Gaming SLI-CF running Windows 10 x64
So old I'm not sure what OS it started with.
Anyway.
If you find loads of unknown devices in Device Manager, and Dell insists
that all your drivers are up to date, but you suspect Intel and Realtek
drivers (for example) are missing.
Look at Windows Update because included in Additional Options is a list of
Drivers.
So far I have fixed all but one of the Unknown Devices and I have an audio
controller at last.
I thought I was going to have to plough trough an archive list of drivers
trying to find the right one, but this seems (for once) to be very useful.
I have no idea why Dell/Intel/Windows can't just check the Unknown Devices
and try to fix them.
There was an obvious awareness of a Realtek device, for example.
Just thought I'd share in case anyone else hits a similar problem.
Cheers
Dave R
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AMD FX-6300 in GA-990X-Gaming SLI-CF running Windows 10 x64
Jeff Gaines
Dec 17, 2023, 4:23:09 PM12/17/23
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On 17/12/2023 in message <ku93qt...@mid.individual.net> David wrote:
>I have no idea why Dell/Intel/Windows can't just check the Unknown Devices
>and try to fix them.
Amen to that, in my case the Intel Management Engine and ACPI drivers
>I have no idea why Dell/Intel/Windows can't just check the Unknown Devices
>and try to fix them.
being the main culprits - ironically I just checked the name in Device
Mangler and I have a yellow blob on an ACPI driver on my new build.
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Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his
life.
(Jeremy Thorpe, 1962)
Marco Moock
Dec 18, 2023, 5:46:22 AM12/18/23
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Am 17.12.2023 um 20:26:05 Uhr schrieb David:
> If you find loads of unknown devices in Device Manager, and Dell
> insists that all your drivers are up to date, but you suspect Intel
> and Realtek drivers (for example) are missing.
Get the device ID of it and search Google for it.
> If you find loads of unknown devices in Device Manager, and Dell
> insists that all your drivers are up to date, but you suspect Intel
> and Realtek drivers (for example) are missing.
Jeff Gaines
Dec 18, 2023, 6:59:20 AM12/18/23
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it's usually Intel drivers so it really ought to be able to find them/
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Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
will stop making it
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