Dell Studio XPS 9100 Dell™ Technology Guide - Page 79
Installing Drivers for Media Drives
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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. HINT: You must be logged in with administrator privileges to perform the tasks mentioned in this section. Determining Whether a Device Driver is the Source of a Device Problem 1 Click Start and right-click Computer. 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 and right-click Computer. 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® Windows® System Restore" on page 265) to return your computer to the state that existed before you installed the new driver. Drives and Media 79