Dell Vostro 1400, Owner'S Manual

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Troubleshooting
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Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities
NOTICE:
The Dell Support website at support.dell.com and your
Drivers and
Utilities
media 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 Start
→
My Computer
→
Properties
→
Hardware
→
Device 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 Properties
→
Device Manager .
NOTE:
The User Account Control window may appear. If you are an
administrator on the computer, click Continue ; otherwise, contact your
administrator to enter the 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 "Restoring Your Microsoft
®
Windows Vista™ Operating System" on
page 153) to return your computer to the operating state that existed before
you installed the new driver.
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