Inputting your Service Tag on the Drivers and Downloads page should narrow down the drivers that are just specific to your system, granted its not seeming to do that now for new systems. The drivers listed for my system are wrong.
Note you have a folder C:\Drivers or C:\Dell\Drivers look at the Rxxxxxx numbers for these and google search them (or list them here). This will tell you what you need the drivers for. Copy these folders on an external media for backup purposes.
That is what I thought, the first build. Turns out that ATI video drivers make nVidia adapters unstable. A call to tech support led to learning that all drivers usable by Dell M6500's are listed, not just those associated with my system. Tech support also stated that they have to look up configuration entries such as "MODULE..., CARD (CIRCUIT)..., GRAPHICS..., N10E-GLM" in their parts database to determine that it means nVidia quadra fx 2800M.
I like the idea of putting in the old drive and backing up the dell\driver\R* folders for more clues. I was using DriverMax to backujp the drivers, which gives me a list.
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December 14th, 2011 13:00
Inputting your Service Tag on the Drivers and Downloads page should narrow down the drivers that are just specific to your system, granted its not seeming to do that now for new systems. The drivers listed for my system are wrong.
Note you have a folder C:\Drivers or C:\Dell\Drivers look at the Rxxxxxx numbers for these and google search them (or list them here). This will tell you what you need the drivers for. Copy these folders on an external media for backup purposes.
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December 14th, 2011 19:00
That is what I thought, the first build. Turns out that ATI video drivers make nVidia adapters unstable. A call to tech support led to learning that all drivers usable by Dell M6500's are listed, not just those associated with my system. Tech support also stated that they have to look up configuration entries such as "MODULE..., CARD (CIRCUIT)..., GRAPHICS..., N10E-GLM" in their parts database to determine that it means nVidia quadra fx 2800M.
I like the idea of putting in the old drive and backing up the dell\driver\R* folders for more clues. I was using DriverMax to backujp the drivers, which gives me a list.