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I want to reinstall Windows 7 on my notebook. The only problem I currently face is that I'm unsure what drivers should be installed. The manufacturer provides all the drivers (albeit heavily outdated and all of them seem to be branded as fuck), but I can also easily get the OEM drivers.
I heard notebooks should get the drivers of the manufacturer because they are specially designed/programmed/whatever for the machine and better than the OEMs. Is that actually true? Should I get those or the official ones instead?
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>>353319
Just get the windows drivers
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>>353319
getting drivers for notebooks is always a battle. what i end up doing is looking up the machine's specs, using those to track down the supplier of video, wifi, motherboard etc and crawling through their websites downloading what looks to be right and trying them.
doing this with asus laptops is like playing a dungeon explorer game.
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>>353319
That's just what the component manufacturers say to stop you coming crying to them when your shit doesn't work.
You haven't paid them a dime, it's not their responsibility to make your shit work. It's your OEM's responsibility to make your shit work, which is why they tell you to go to your OEM and use their drivers.
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>>353346
this
see what doesn't work, then just get the ones you need
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Install, go to device manager, see what isn't installed, double click, details, hardware id and google that to find what device it is, then go to the manufacturer's website and download those drivers from there.
If you can't find it there just get it from your notebook's manufacturer, it shouldn't matter.
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