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On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 12:46:15 +0000, Andy Mabbett
<andy@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk> wrote:

[driver woes -dell site not working properly]

Drivers for what? You are better off bypassing Dell and using a
product which can apparently fetch drivers for your PC. I think
Symantec do such a program. I'll see what I can find out.

In article <38a577c2.5654180@news.wlv.ac.uk>, Ah Me? <me@me.com> writes
>[driver woes -dell site not working properly]
>
>Drivers for what?

All the "driven" components supplied with the PC.

> You are better off bypassing Dell and using a
>product which can apparently fetch drivers for your PC.

Clearly, if the Dell system doesn't work. Presumably it is meant to .

> I think
>Symantec do such a program. I'll see what I can find out.

Thanks.
-- 
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You think that's bad, when I did the same, it said my Dell Inspiron 7000
was a Celeron based PC, and not a full PII 400!

Not very effective if it is supposed to be a reflection of your
personalised service, especially as they say that it is based on the
'unique' id for your PC.



-- 
;-)
Andrew 
andrew@kolbe.demon.co.uk

In article <IlM64NBXYVp4EwDO@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk>, Andy Mabbett
<andy@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk> writes
>I set up my "personalised" page at;
>
>        http://support.euro.dell.com/uk/en/home.asp
>
>which is supposed, based on the unique identification of this PC, to
>show what driver upgrades are available for it.

>
>It doesn't seem very personalised.

 As far as I remember, the personalisation is only a recognition of your
machine code to tell you which model you have. You can choose that for
yourself.

> Not only are there broken links, but
>several of the items seem to be redundant, or duplicate - Win NT
>drivers, Win 95 patches, and patches for other territories, when I'm
>using Win 98, as supplied, in the UK.

 They tend to leave all the drivers on the page because the
personalisation is so broad.

>
>How am I, let alone a technically naive user, supposed to know which
>drivers are the correct ones to use?
>

 What are you looking for?

>When I tried to report the problem, the scripting on their "comment"
>form was broken.


 I gave up bothering with comments because they never got answered. 
-- 
David Lawson - London

In article <38a577c2.5654180@news.wlv.ac.uk>, Ah Me? <me@me.com> writes
>On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 12:46:15 +0000, Andy Mabbett
><andy@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>[driver woes -dell site not working properly]
>
>Drivers for what? You are better off bypassing Dell and using a
>product which can apparently fetch drivers for your PC. 

 Do you have a Dell? If not, don't guess. Bad advice can fuck up
people's machines. There are components (such as graphics cards) that
are tailored for Dell. If you try using other drivers, they can screw
things up.

>I think
>Symantec do such a program. I'll see what I can find out.

 You can find out here. It is the Norton Web service - which is very
slow. It also requires a Norton installation. Oilchange is a similar
service from McAfee-NAI. 
 Zdnet's http://www.updates.com is free - and a lot faster.

-- 
David Lawson - London