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    Rebuild XPS17 upon delivery - anything to be aware of?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by dell201, Apr 20, 2011.

  1. dell201

    dell201 Notebook Enthusiast

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    When my XPS arrives I plan on wiping the drive and doing a clean install of windows w/ all the latest drivers and software.

    I believe my system is coming with all the install media, is there anything to be aware of when doing this? Don't want any surprises and not have the media to do anything about it.

    Thanks! :)
     
    dell201, Apr 20, 2011
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    riceisnice Newbie

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    The new Win7 install won't have drivers for your wireless or nic card (That's what happened to me at least). So you'll have to get those off the disc before you can get all the updated drivers/bios off the dell site. Other than that, everthing went smoothly.

    Have fun :)
     
    riceisnice, Apr 21, 2011
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