Alienware is known for one of the best gaming laptop that is belongs to Dell gaming device. Dell Alienware laptops come with a video RAM instead of ordinary RAM, which provide impressive gaming experience. Since, Alienware gaming laptops use advanced technology that’s why many cheaper laptops fail to surpass the epic blend of form and functionality.
The core features of Dell Alienware gaming laptops including 9ms response time, a unique cooling System with top and bottom vents, and rare and side exhaust Systems to execute your computer games smoothly without heating/overheating the processor. Moreover, the high-quality customized motherboards and several quality features make Alienware gaming laptops ridiculously expensive.
If you have Dell Alienware gaming laptop like Alienware AW17R5-7405SLV-PUS or Gaming Aurora R7 Desktop PC or other Dell Alienware computer, then you should make sure Dell Alienware Drivers are up-to-date in your device.
Note that updating drivers fixes any issue related to hardware device integrated in your Dell Alienware like sound card issues, graphics card not detected, network adapter problem or similar issues. However, updating drivers also add some additional features to provide better gaming experience. So, you should keep up-to-date your Dell laptop drivers.
Depending on hardware device model and Operating System architecture, you will need to download and install the drivers in your computer. If you are unaware, hardware device driver is essential software to communicate your hardware device with Operating System installed in your computer. For example, if you have Intel Graphics card integrated on your Dell Alienware AW17R5-7405SLV-PUS gaming laptop based on Windows 10 64-bit, then you will need to find the drivers according to graphics card model ‘Intel’ and OS ‘Windows 10 64-bit’.
If Dell Alienware Gaming Laptop (Hardware) and integrated hardware device is in good condition and if you want to have best gaming experience, you should try to update Alienware Drivers to the latest version. Let’s go for solution to do this.
How to check Laptop Model and Configuration?
Before downloading and install Alienware Drivers, you can view basic configuration details of your Alienware gaming laptop. Some of the most important details you will get from ‘System Utility’ include laptop model, services currently installed and running, detailed information about the hardware device like disk drive and devices. To do this, follow the steps below.
Step 1: Press ‘Windows + R’ keys together from keyboard to open ‘Run Dialog Box’
Step 2: In the opened ‘Run dialog Box’, type ‘msinfo32’ and hit ‘Ok’ button
Step 3: In the opened ‘System Information’ window, you will find the detailed information about the System configuration. On left, you will find the list of categories and on right pane, you will see description pertaining to every category.
Step 4: You can expand any category and find the detail information about the specific components that you want. For example, if you want to see the display related information of your laptop, double-click on ‘Components > Display’. Hardware resources, components and software environment three available categories will help you to check your laptop configurations.
How to download and install Dell Alienware Drivers on Windows 10?
Step 1: At first, you need to visit ‘Dell Drivers & Downloads Page’ (Official)
Step 2: Now, enter your Dell Alienware laptop model like ’17 R5’ for model AW17R5-7405SLV-PUS and hit ‘Search’ button.
Step 3: Or you can enter your laptop model by clicking ‘Browse All product Links’ on the same page, then select ‘Laptops > Alienware > Alienware 17 > Alienware 17 R5’. Note that you can enter laptop model that you have. Here, Alienware 17 we take as example.
Step 4: On the opened page, scroll down to see the list of Alienware Drivers, select each driver & utility one-by-one and hit ‘Download All’ button to start downloading
Step 5: Once downloaded, double-click on each driver & utility one-by-one and follow on-screen instructions to finish installation.
Step 6: Once done, reboot your Dell Alienware to save the changes.
How to update Alienware Drivers on Windows 10?
You can also download and update drivers for Dell Alienware Gaming Laptop using ‘Device Manager’.
Step 1: Press ‘Windows + X’ keys together from keyboard and select ‘Device Manager’
Step 2: In the opened ‘Device Manager’ window, scroll down to find the device in devices category that you want to update the driver for, right-click on it and select ‘Update Driver’. Or you can also try to update all drivers of Alienware laptop. To do so, expand each device category one-by-one, right-click on each driver and select ‘Update Driver’.
Step 3: In the next window, select ‘Search automatically for updated driver software’ and follow on-screen instructions to finish installation.
Step 4: Once done, reboot your computer to save the changes.
Conclusion
I am sure this post helped you to know about Dell Alienware Gaming Laptop, Alienware Drivers and how to download, install and update device drivers on Dell Alienware based on Windows 10. You can read & follow our instructions to do so. If this post really helped you, then you can share this post with others to help them.
