Installing Drivers For Media Drives; Determining Whether A Device Driver Is The Source Of A Device Problem; Replacing A Driver With A Previous Version Of The Driver - Dell Inspiron 545 MT User Manual

Installing Drivers for Media Drives

A driver is a program that controls your media drive. You may need to install
drivers if you:
• Upgrade your operating system.
• Reinstall your operating system.
• Connect or install a new device.
You must be logged in with administrator privileges to perform
HINT:
the tasks mentioned in this section.

Determining Whether a Device Driver is the Source of a Device Problem

1 Click Start
2 Click Properties→ Device Manager.
3 If a window appears asking permission to continue, click Continue.
4 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 or update the driver.

Replacing a Driver With a Previous Version of the Driver

If a problem occurs on your computer after you install or update a driver, use
Windows Device Driver Rollback.
1 Click Start
2 Click Properties→ Device Manager.
3 Right-click the device for which the new driver was installed, and click
Properties.
4 Click the Drivers tab→ Roll Back Driver.
If Device Driver Rollback does not resolve the problem, use System Restore
(see "Using Microsoft
your computer to the state that existed before you installed the new driver.
and right-click Computer.
and right-click Computer.
® ®
Windows System Restore" on page 265) to return
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