Drivers for dell laptop?

bSlick

I am going to reinstall windows on my dell laptop and as I don't have any drivers cd Im going to have to get the drivers from dell's website once windows is reinstalled. The problem is there are 73 drivers listed for my model, precision m90, and there is no 'download all' option. Why in the name of god there is no option like this for the huge amount of people who need all drivers after reinstalling windows, i do not know. So anyone else have experience of getting the dell drivers? Is there a site i could go to that lets me download them all with one click? Or am I better off sticking with the official dell site and getting them one by one?

Alanstrainor

It shouldn't require all the drivers. There will be drivers for multiple graphics cards etc hence the large number. Is it xp you'll be installing? Or Vista? Vista would most likely find and install most of the driver itself.

WIZE

Go to the dell website . Put in the model of your Dell and you can then download the Drivers

bSlick

It's xp, here is the page with all the drivers - http://support.euro.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=ie&cs=iedhs1&l=en&s=dhs&ServiceTag=&SystemID=LATITUDE%20PRECISION%20M90&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid=

Alanstrainor

There's no need to download all the drivers, you'll only need about 5 or so. There's 26 drivers for all the different cd/dvd drives that were put into that machine over it's life. You'll only need one, and i'd guess that xp will pick up the drive automatically anyway.
Download the appropriate graphics driver
Which ever network driver you need (it depends on the card in the machine.)
Download the synaptics touchpad driver.
And the audio driver if you need it.

You should be sorted with the above. There is a reason there's no "download all" button. You'd never ever have to download "all" the drivers for that machine.

Abelloid

'Add to my downloads' ?

Pick out the handful you do need and add to 'my downloads'.

bSlick

Ive got as far as the video driver and the next driver it says to install on this page http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/downloads/en/driver_install_order?c=us&l=en&s=gen&~lt=print is number 4, the network interface card.

However in device manager it just lists 'network controller' and 'ethernet controller' as devices that haven't got drivers installed, it doesn't give the specific name of the card. And in the dell driver download section http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&ServiceTag=&SystemID=LATITUDE%20PRECISION%20M90&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid= it lists 12 different drivers. So is a there a way to find out which one(s) I need?

bren50c

if you select the option to enter your service tag (7 letters & numbers that should be on a sticker on the underside of the laptop) after you click on drivers and downloads, it will give you just the drivers that came installed when you bought it.