Uninstalling Drivers?

Have a Dell laptop that is acting a little odd. After installing the
OS and everything I learn that the drivers are supposed to be
installed in a particular order. Has anyone dealt with this issue?
Thanks.

"Davej" <galt_57@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Have a Dell laptop that is acting a little odd. After installing the
> OS and everything I learn that the drivers are supposed to be
> installed in a particular order. Has anyone dealt with this issue?


You normally install motherboard drivers, video drivers, LAN drivers, and
any other built in device driver first, generally in that order. If you are
installing SCSI drivers you do that before you install the OS (XP and
earlier). And if you must choose between Legacy IDE mode or SATA mode you
need to do that before you load the OS too.
More detailed explanation of the issue would be helpful in getting
intelligent responses.

On Nov 3, 5:31*pm, "TVeblen" <killtherob...@hal.net> wrote:
> "Davej" <galt...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Have a Dell laptop that is acting a little odd. After installing the
> > OS and everything I learn that the drivers are supposed to be
> > installed in a particular order. Has anyone dealt with this issue?
>
> You normally install motherboard drivers, video drivers, LAN drivers, and
> any other built in device driver first, generally in that order. If you are
> installing SCSI drivers you do that before you install the OS (XP and
> earlier). And if you must choose between Legacy IDE mode or SATA mode you
> need to do that before you load the OS too.
> More detailed explanation of the issue would be helpful in getting
> intelligent responses.

Well, the question is -- how can you look at a system and tell if the
drivers have been installed in the correct order -- and if they
weren't -- how would you fix that without a complete format and start
over?

Davej wrote:
> Well, the question is -- how can you look at a system and tell if the
> drivers have been installed in the correct order

No, that isn't the question.

The question is, what does this mean?

>> "Davej"
>>> Have a Dell laptop that is acting a little odd.



--
Mike Easter

"Davej" <galt_57@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Nov 3, 5:31 pm, "TVeblen" <killtherob...@hal.net> wrote:
>> "Davej" <galt...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Have a Dell laptop that is acting a little odd. After installing the
>> > OS and everything I learn that the drivers are supposed to be
>> > installed in a particular order. Has anyone dealt with this issue?
>>
>> You normally install motherboard drivers, video drivers, LAN drivers, and
>> any other built in device driver first, generally in that order. If you
>> are
>> installing SCSI drivers you do that before you install the OS (XP and
>> earlier). And if you must choose between Legacy IDE mode or SATA mode you
>> need to do that before you load the OS too.
>> More detailed explanation of the issue would be helpful in getting
>> intelligent responses.
>
> Well, the question is -- how can you look at a system and tell if the
> drivers have been installed in the correct order -- and if they
> weren't -- how would you fix that without a complete format and start
> over?

boot into safe mode - uninstall any graphics, sound and network drivers that
have
been installed by you - dont worry about drivers that the OS install
automatically included.
then install motherboard drivers (if the manufacturer provides them) and
then video and then whatever....

sometimes the OS includes adequate drivers for the motherboard particularly
if its a Intel chipset board
and you just install the others.

On Nov 4, 2:25*am, "Mike Easter" <Mi...@ster.invalid> wrote:
> Davej wrote:
> > Well, the question is -- how can you look at a system and tell if the
> > drivers have been installed in the correct order
>
> No, that isn't the question.
>
> The question is, what does this mean?
>
> >> "Davej" wrote:
> >>> Have a Dell laptop that is acting a little odd.

The keyboard status LEDs remain on. The mute button doesn't work. The
power button **sometimes** doesn't wake the unit up without repeated
presses. It is as if the motherboard driver isn't working right.

Davej wrote:

> The keyboard status LEDs remain on. The mute button doesn't work. The
> power button **sometimes** doesn't wake the unit up without repeated
> presses. It is as if the motherboard driver isn't working right.

.... or there is something wrong with the keyboard. Those sound like
hardware inconsistencies to me rather than a driver problem.

It is a Dell laptop. Things break in LTs.

How well does everything on the keyboard work if you boot it up with
some live CD? That way nothing about your OS install or its drivers
matters.

--
Mike Easter

"TVeblen" <killtherobots@hal.net> wrote:

> "Davej" <galt_57@hotmail.com> wrote in message

>> Have a Dell laptop that is acting a little odd. After
>> installing the OS and everything I learn that the drivers are
>> supposed to be installed in a particular order. Has anyone
>> dealt with this issue?
>
>
> You normally install motherboard drivers, video drivers, LAN
> drivers, and any other built in device driver first, generally
> in that order.

That does seem normal, but what if one of the less basic drivers
steps on one of the more basic drivers.

> More detailed explanation of the issue would be helpful in getting
> intelligent responses.

Definitely.

"John Doe" <jdoe@usenetlove.invalid> wrote in message
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> "TVeblen" <killtherobots@hal.net> wrote:
>
>> "Davej" <galt_57@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
>>> Have a Dell laptop that is acting a little odd. After
>>> installing the OS and everything I learn that the drivers are
>>> supposed to be installed in a particular order. Has anyone
>>> dealt with this issue?
>>
>>
>> You normally install motherboard drivers, video drivers, LAN
>> drivers, and any other built in device driver first, generally
>> in that order.
>
> That does seem normal, but what if one of the less basic drivers
> steps on one of the more basic drivers.
>
I guess that's where experience kicks in. You got to know your system and
your OS or you are looking up at the learning curve. I'm getting ready to
use W7, so I know I will soon be standing at the bottom of that hill. But it
beats the hell out of crosswords.
Often I will just load all the drivers on the MB disk (because it's too
****ed much work to take it out and put it back in the slot ;-)) and then
the video. It has never made much of a difference either way. If one driver
steps on another I curse the coding gods and then uninstall both and
reinstall them the other way around!

On Nov 3, 5:31*pm, "TVeblen" <killtherob...@hal.net> wrote:
> "Davej" <galt...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Have a Dell laptop that is acting a little odd. After installing the
> > OS and everything I learn that the drivers are supposed to be
> > installed in a particular order. Has anyone dealt with this issue?
>
> You normally install motherboard drivers, video drivers, LAN drivers, and
> any other built in device driver first, generally in that order. If you are
> installing SCSI drivers you do that before you install the OS (XP and
> earlier). And if you must choose between Legacy IDE mode or SATA
> mode you need to do that before you load the OS too.
> More detailed explanation of the issue would be helpful in getting
> intelligent responses.


Ok, at first I didn't think the Device Manager offered an Uninstall
option, but it does, but the problem I see now is figuring out which
drivers were supplied by the OS and which ones were added by Dell. I
know which Dell files I downloaded and executed but I don't know what
files were unpacked and installed. Maybe I can find that information
on the Dell site. Thanks.