Reinstalling drivers and utilities, Ers (see "reinstalling drivers and – Dell Precision T5400 (Late 2007) User Manual

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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 PropertiesDevice 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 142).

Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities

NOTICE:

The Dell Support website at support.dell.com and your Drivers and

Utilities

disc 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 StartMy ComputerPropertiesHardwareDevice 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 PropertiesDevice Manager.

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