Dell Precision M6300 - Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities

166 Reinstalling Software
2 Under Pick a Category , click Performance and Maintenance , and click
System .
3 In the System Properties window, click the Hardware tab, and click Device
Manager
.
Microsoft Windows Vista™
1 Click the Windows Vista Start button, , and right-click Computer .
2 Click Properties → Device Manager .
NOTE: The User Account Control window may appear. If you are an
administrator on the computer, click Continue; otherwise, contact your
administrator to continue.
Scroll down the list to see if any device has an exclamation point (a yellow
circle with a [!]) on the device icon.
If an exclamation point is next to the device name, you may need to reinstall the
driver or install a new driver (see "Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities
" on
page 166
).
Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities
NOTICE: The Dell Support website at support.dell.com and your Drivers and
Utilities media provide approved drivers for Dell™ computers. If you install drivers
obtained from other sources, your computer might not work correctly.
Using Windows Device Driver Rollback
If a problem occurs on your computer after you install or update a driver, use
Windows Device Driver Rollback to replace the driver with the previously
installed version.
Windows XP:
1
Click Start → My Computer → Properties → Hardware → Device Manager .
2 Right-click the device for which the new driver was installed and click
Properties .
3 Click the Drivers tab → Roll Back Driver .
Windows Vista:
1
Click the Windows Vista start button, , and right-click Computer .
2 Click Properties → Device Manager .
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