DELL DRIVERS PLEASE HELP!

DELL DRIVERS PLEASE HELP! I installed a new hardrive and reinstalled windows

#1 lance79

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Posted 02 October 2009 - 04:41 PM

Hey i may or may not sound stupid on this one, but i just installed a new harddrive after getting the blue screen of death UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME error message i upgraded from a 160gb hard drive to a 320gb hard drive. Everything went smooth changing out the hard drive and installing windows etc. But when i finaly got onto the internet everything was extremely laggy in otherwords just slower. when i scrolled down in IE and firefox everything just scrolled so slow and jittered kind of. Also i came to realise my speakers don't work so i did some research and all i needed to do was download my drivers.. my only problem is when i type in my service tag etc and specify my computer type i try to download the drivers for instance one of the drivers i need is for my speakers/audio called realtek the program file is 37mb i believe and when i click download its only 9.28kb and i click save, save as desktop, save and i try and open it up but it says this application is not a valid win32 application... it happens on every driver i try to download. can someone please help me because i want to get this thing up and running just like it used to.

please and thank you

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Posted 02 October 2009 - 06:28 PM

What model number is your Dell? Did you download the drivers from the Dell website?

No you do not sound stupid on this one. Not knowing something does not make a person stupid or dumb.

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Posted 02 October 2009 - 06:41 PM

Something is stopping the d\l before it is complete. That is the reason for the small size and the error message.

#4 lance79

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Posted 02 October 2009 - 08:23 PM

it is a dell inspiron 531S, And what could be stopping it?

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Posted 02 October 2009 - 08:31 PM

lance79, on Oct 2 2009, 09:23 PM, said:

........And what could be stopping it?

That is the million $ question. Have had that happen to me on occasion. Could be there server, or any one of the hops I am sure the connection is making trying to deliver the d\l. I would usually try a couple times. Clear the browser history, cache, cookies. Restart the browser and try again. Would eventually manage to get it.