Driver versions and installation

Hi,

I noticed that some of the drivers that I can get from the acer site(using laptop snid) are lower versions than those that are in the driver partition on my laptop. Are those from the site more stable than those that came with the laptop even thought its for the same model?

Also I downloaded the wifi driver from the acer site but I cant seem to install it. I have disabled windows update auto installing drivers, I have removed the previous drivers including software.
The driver from the site has a .cmd installer, when I run that in an administrator prompt it says it installed succesfully but nothing happens in device manager, device remains uknown.

Would appreciate some help!

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Commodore_1995#

Can you provide the computer model and idhardware of the unknown device?

acp6

model is AN715-51, the driver is the intel wireless one you can download from the site
the wifi is intel ax-200 160hz, hwid PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2723&SUBSYS_00848086&REV_1A

I was trying to install the one from the site wich is older because it was intrerupting on ac wifi with the driver I got from the laptop partition

THanks

Commodore_1995#

Try downloading the correct driver here: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/29361/Intel-PROSet-Wireless-Software-and-Drivers-for-IT-Admins?product=189347

MaClane

Good evening acp6 !

Try DriverBooster, DriverMax or DriverPack, which are driver automation software.

acp6

I've already tried that driver to no avail. I think the drivers that are present on the site for my laptop model are for the wrong wireless card considering what happens when I try to manually update them.

acp6

@MaClane I will, but I was under the impression that laptop drivers are a bit sensitive. When I first installed the windows on this laptop running applications under the dedicated gpu did not work with only windows drivers untill I had installed some acer drivers.

Commodore_1995#

When you press alt + f10 before the Acer logo, can you reinstall windows?

acp6

I am on w10 1809 ltsc, looking for a good 1903 enterprise iso right now to check if its windows related.

Driver boost installed the same version as windows update would have.

Thanks for trying to help guy.