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to correctly install and run. To obtain the latest drivers released for your specific laptop model, you will go to the manufacturer’s website, for ex: Sony.com or Dell.com… Once at their main page of the website, you will look for a ―Services & Supportǁ or ―Drivers & Downloadsǁ or similar to get to their Drivers Page for your model. Next, you will be allowed to choose your Laptops model number and series number. There will usually be a list to choose from or an Auto Detect feature on that Web Page. Once at your Drivers Web Page, you can see the list of all your drivers such as Ethernet, Chipset, Audio, Wi-Fi, BIOS, etc… Download one or all of them, and if needed, you might have to flip through the different operating system versions to find all the drivers… there will be a place somewhere on that page to change what operating system version the drivers are for… If installing from a USB device, make sure that you set the BIOS setting to allow the laptop to boot to that USB device first.