On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:53:00 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:10:06 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

Crikey, what a pain in the ass. I had to hunt down some missing drivers
on the bloody awful Dell site, and I'll still have work to do. But at
least it didn't die on me...yet.

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Should have bought an HP. THeir drivers are very easy to find, nicely
packaged, install cleanly, and they work.

Dell is not horrible, once you understand the "Dell way", find the
service tag number and get their download manager. Given the choice, I
prefer IBM/Lenovo, then HP/Compaq but my wife's office is all Dell so
I end up with a lot of them, either to fix or to keep. I usually clean
them up and give them away to someone who needs a machine.

For $10 Dell will send you the entire CD package that was shipped with
the machine new, if you don't want to screw with it. That is handy if
that particular machine was bundled with a lot of software.
You can just go through a fairly simple restore operation and make it
look like it did the day it was shipped.
I have done that to my father in law's machine several times. I just
have to go in and point all of his data fields back to the D drive
when I am done and he has not really lost anything.