Recently bought a Dell Inspiron 14R 5437 laptop with Windows 8 SL (ES). Everything worked fine. Decided to get a Windows 8.1 SL (EN) version and did a clean install. After installing windows and successfully activating I started to install drivers from official dell site via wired internet. First downloaded Wifi/WLAN driver but it doesn´t seem to install (Message displayed during instal: The installer can not run on this platform. Please select package for your operating system.) Please help me because this is keeping me from having wireless internet. Thanks in advance.
extract the driver files from inside the exe or locate them on the internet. link me the download and I will see if they can be extracted.
NOTE: The drivers are available only for 64bit operating system, are you sure you have installed Windows 8.1 x64 on your Dell?
Exact link; www dell com/support/drivers/us/en/04/DriverDetails/Product/inspiron-14r-5437?driverId=7M2CM&osCode=W864&fileId=3322687286&languageCode=en&categoryId=NI Yes, downloaded even with my service tag. Yes, very sure. 64-bits Windows 8.1 SL English
Ooops... With service tag OS was set to Windows 8 .... I´ll try downloading 8.1 file and tell you guys if problem was solved!
While that should be true, the Lenovo Q190 desktop has Windows 8.1 wi-fi drivers that do not work and the Win 8 drivers need to be re-installed a couple of times to get it working. So there are problems going around between different manufacturers with 8.1.
Thread can be closed. Downloaded driver for windows 8.1 and not win8 and worked fine! Thanks to everyone who helped.