Re-installed Dell Laptop; Nothing Works!

nothing_man13

Hey,

So my brother broke his Dell and also succeded in losing all his recovery CDs. I finally figured out the problem was the HDD so I replaced it and re-installed windows. Now, I have no video card, sound card, wireless or network card drivers and I have no idea which drivers I need. Any of the ones I have downloaded from the Dell website do not seem to work. So... ideas?

Edit: Also is an Inspiron 9400

Alorien

Unknown Device Identifier (freeware) or Everest + google are going to be the easiest way for you find the drivers.

if you check device manager (control panel -> system) it should tell you whats missing.

nothing_man13

Thanks finally got it working, well most of it. Bluetooth still isn't working but that isn't important right now.

Alorien

No problem

you may be able to use a generic blue tooth driver, im not too sure though

IreneDAdler

Go to Dell's support site and click on the Drivers tab. Input your service tag if you have it, your model number if you don't. That will give you a list of all possible driver you could need. Bluetooth is probably under communications. You should be able to download everything you need. You should also update the BIOS and the chipset drivers. Also, Dell sometimes uses proprietary versions of hardware, so, for example, the drivers I get from nVIDIA's site doesn't work on my laptop, and I need the drivers from Dell's site.

GrimReaper

This url should give you everything you need.