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    XPS 13 9343 Drivers

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by avalpert, Feb 19, 2015.

  1. avalpert

    avalpert Notebook Consultant

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    In trying to do a clean install on my new XPS 13 I can't seem to get all the right drivers installed - installing everything available off the Dell site for the computer isn't enough. In particular, I can't get the right wireless driver installed and end up without bluetooth capability.

    Does anyone have a list (or better yet the files) for all drivers that would need to be installed over a clean 8.1 installation?
     
    avalpert, Feb 19, 2015
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    mattalter Notebook Enthusiast

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    I see the same issue. They were publishing the correct drivers for wifi and Bluetooth, but they took them down. Not sure why.

    Bluetooth is Broadcom so is wifi.
     
    mattalter, Feb 19, 2015
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    avalpert Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah, Windows installed a broadcom driver for the wifi but not one that covered bluetooth as well.

    I don't understand why they would take them down - is it that hard to make it easy on their customers to use the products they buy?
     
    avalpert, Feb 19, 2015
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    jamesakano Newbie

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    I am having the same missing driver issues. I have exclamation marks in device manager on 7 unknown devices, 1 SM Bus Controller and 2 PCI Data Acquisition and Signal Processing Controller.

    Ive installed all drivers from dells website but still no avail.

    Can someone please guide on how to do a clean install on the XPS 13 2015?

    Many Thanks
     
    jamesakano, Feb 23, 2015
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    jedolley Notebook Evangelist

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    I was able to find all the drivers from this site and they link back to Dell: http://file-driver.blogspot.com/2015/01/dell-xps-13-9343-windows-81-64bit-drivers.html.

    In regards to the DW1560 driver, the one in the link will install the WiFi+BT driver, but for some reason 5GHZ networks are no longer being seen. What I did was installed the driver and then uninstalled just the WiFi portion from Device Manager.
     
    jedolley, Feb 23, 2015
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    Thanks for that, got it all sorted with drivers from the link you gave.

    Still don't understand why Dell only have part of the drivers to download. If it wasn't for the website you linked I would have been very much stuck.

    Once again thank you.
     
    jamesakano, Feb 24, 2015
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