Hi stymiee, You will have to give Dell Support a ring, see HERE. As you said all the drivers on the web site are updates. Or you can use this online form to order the drivers disc, and need be order the operating system disc as well. See HERE.

The online drivers are not just updates but the actual drivers needed following a reinstall of Windows.  All are located here:

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&ServiceTag=&SystemID=DIM_PNT_P4_3100&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid=

Directions for installing drivers here:

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=us&cs=19&docid=1A0C0937D62A8739E0401E0A55174744&journalid=4F1F82483DC811DBAE564F9328EE04A4&l=en&s=gen

Thank you for your replies. I went ahead and requested a driver CD be sent to me as it downloading the drivers and getting them installed off of the website seems to be too much of a IMHO.

Thanks again.

... downloading the drivers and getting them installed off of the website seems to be too much of a...

Too much of a... what?  Pain in the derrière (in your opinion)? 

Have you actually tried it, because it's just as easy as downloading drivers/software from anywhere else is?

Using the 'Drivers & Software' disc is fine, just to get you up and running, initially.

But the disc they're sending you almost certainly won't include the latest drivers/software.

You have to check for those on, and download them from, the Dell website :emotion-55:

I recommend using the drivers from the Dell support site instead of the Drivers & Utilities CD because they are going to be more up to date.  The CD works for getting the system up and running when you don't have ready access to the internet through another means, but even then I recommend doing the updates after you get the system on the network.

And as Fireblade states, the drivers on the support site are full drivers, and not just updates that require drivers to already be on the computer.

The list of drivers you will need to install, in the order they should be installed, is:

• Dell Desktop System Software
• Intel® chipset driver
• Intel integrated video driver
• SigmaTel® audio drivers
• Intel Network drivers
• Intel Matrix Storage Manager software
• Intel Network Diagnostics software
• Drivers for any PCI or PCI Express® cards installed
• Drivers for other hardware (printers, etc) you have added

HI Larry !

I have a question regarding this. It appears that the drivers for RAID are the wrong ones listed on the website for the model E310

I am working on a clients computer. It was fully functional and running. We are re-partitioning the hard drives and installing larger ones. I went and downloaded the raid drivers that you extract to the floppy disk from that webpage... the drivers listed are for an : ICH8R

AFTER (of course) I wiped out the drives and went to reinstall the OS... when I hit the F6 to install the drivers.. windows will not recognize the raid array with any choices selected. The driver from the website has 4 options that pop up. I have tried all 4.

It turns out in this computer the bios reports the raid as being : Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager option ROM v5.0.2.1005 ICH6R

ICH6R !!

I spent about 3 hours with this last night and cant seem to locate the proper drivers.

The machine is an E310. Running windows media center (well.. it was)