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From: Larry Hermann on 30 Dec 2009 14:17
You're welcome. I took a look at the current drivers offered by Dell in
their download section and the new, November nVidia driver is currently
listed. However, the updated driver is shown only as recommended, not
urgent, and of course no emails went out to registered owners telling them
to upgrade.

Larry

"Nick" <tanstaafl(a)pobox.com> wrote in message
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> I plan on buying an XPS 9000 sometime in the next month or so, and this is
> nice to know about.
>
> When I buy a new computer, I usually go through and check for updates to
> drivers, etc. eventually, but now I know to update the video drivers
> quickly
> and not put it off until I get a round tuit.
>
> Thanks for the heads up!
>
> --
> Nick <mailto:tanstaafl(a)pobox.com>
>
> "Natural laws have no pity." R.A.H.

From: Ben Myers on 30 Dec 2009 15:07
Larry Hermann wrote:
> You're welcome. I took a look at the current drivers offered by Dell in
> their download section and the new, November nVidia driver is currently
> listed. However, the updated driver is shown only as recommended, not
> urgent, and of course no emails went out to registered owners telling
> them to upgrade.
>
> Larry
>
> "Nick" <tanstaafl(a)pobox.com> wrote in message
> news:g97lj5117t1569b70dks1uu3cqsatge3to(a)4ax.com...
>
>> I plan on buying an XPS 9000 sometime in the next month or so, and
>> this is
>> nice to know about.
>>
>> When I buy a new computer, I usually go through and check for updates to
>> drivers, etc. eventually, but now I know to update the video drivers
>> quickly
>> and not put it off until I get a round tuit.
>>
>> Thanks for the heads up!
>>
>> --
>> Nick <mailto:tanstaafl(a)pobox.com>
>>
>> "Natural laws have no pity." R.A.H.
>

Somebody in Dell's web site group needs to give serious consideration to
proper labeling (urgent, recommended, optional) on the downloads. At
this point, they make so little sense that it is better to ignore them
completely and trust ones own judgement.

Of course, if you need the driver because you do not have it at all,
that's "urgent".

Dell seems to pay minimal attention to its customers after the computer
is sold and shipped out of the warehouse. Same or worse with HP,
Acer-EGateMachines, Lenovo, Toshiba, Fujitsu. A sign of the times.
Also a sign that in everyone's quest for cheaper products, manufacturers
and buyers alike, something's gotta give... Ben Myers
From: WSZsr on 30 Dec 2009 16:19
I was referring to parts installed in its system not to retail cards you
order from Dell.

"MJMIII" <balrog(a)castaway.net> wrote in message
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> Not if you're building a non stock Dell. Last year I ordered my XPS630i
> with a Radeon 4800 series, and that's the first thing I checked when I got
> it. The card is the real ATI deal.
>
> --
>
>
> "Don't pick a fight with an old man.
> If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."
>
>
> "WSZsr" <nospam(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:hhfi1b$44h$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>> I would say that virtually all of the video and audio cards dell ships
>> are OEM versions of the retail version.
>>
>> "Nick" <tanstaafl(a)pobox.com> wrote in message
>> news:m65lj55n98cke43al40o5da8ot55ncb1m2(a)4ax.com...
>>>
>>> On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:13:39 -0500, in alt.sys.pc-clone.dell, "Tom Lake"
>>> <tlake(a)twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>"Larry Hermann" <lhermann(a)nospam.com> wrote in message
>>>>news:TP-dnd0OyPnx7aTWnZ2dnUVZ_jWdnZ2d(a)giganews.com...
>>>>> I received an XPS 9000 equipped with Windows 7 (64) and the nVidia GT
>>>>> 220 video card on
>>>>> December 1st. From time to time the computer would freeze; the screen
>>>>> would go black,
>>>>> then recover and produce a message saying that the video card had
>>>>> registered an error
>>>>> but recovered. From past experience, I knew that Dell was often sloppy
>>>>> in updating
>>>>> drivers for their peripherals and went to the nVidia website to see if
>>>>> the drivers had
>>>>> been updated. It turns out that the drivers shipped by Dell with the
>>>>> the GT 220 are over
>>>>> six months old, predating the release of Windows 7, and there have
>>>>> been a whole series
>>>>> of updates since then, the latest a Microsoft certified driver
>>>>> released in November.
>>>>
>>>>I never rely on the drivers that come with a pre-built computer. I just
>>>>bought
>>>>a 9000 with a GTS 240 in it. I couldn't run Bejeweled 2 and 3-D Vision
>>>>was jerky.
>>>> I visited the Nvidia site, got the latest driver and am happy now. My
>>>> 3-D Vision
>>>>and all games including Bejeweled 2 run fine.
>>>
>>> My current Dell came with an ATI card and my previous one came with an
>>> nVidia card.
>>>
>>> In both cases, the driver supplied by Dell was a stripped-down version:
>>> it
>>> worked fine (as far as I could tell), but was missing most of the
>>> control
>>> panel options for changing the settings. For a non-gamer, most of the
>>> missing settings really wouldn't matter, but at the time I was still
>>> playing
>>> a lot of games and not being able to tweak things was really
>>> frustrating.
>>>
>>> Both times, I downloaded the latest drivers from the nVidia/ATI site and
>>> they worked fine and included all the settings options.
>>>
>>> I also ran into this once, a long time ago, (I don't do this anymore)
>>> when I
>>> downloaded a video driver from Windows Update: the new driver worked
>>> fine,
>>> but I lost the ability to tweak a lot of the video card's settings.
>>> Again,
>>> getting the driver from the card manufacturer's web site worked fine.
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> On a side note: one of my previous computers (Dell or Micron) came with
>>> a
>>> Creative sound card, but updating with the drivers from Creative's site
>>> or
>>> from Windows Update caused problems. Turned out the card was an OEM
>>> version
>>> and I had to use the drivers from the computer manufacturer's web site.
>>> The
>>> OEM card's features were slightly different from the ones on the
>>> standard
>>> version from Creative, and that made enough difference to prevent the
>>> Creative drivers from working correctly.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nick <mailto:tanstaafl(a)pobox.com>
>>>
>>> "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley." Robert Burns
>>
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