The drivers on my laptop are newer, then those who are NOW available on the site! ...

How is that possible?

The thing is I'm about to reinstall the OS (Win 7 x 64) and I searched for pilots who would be needed for my g6-1354er. I would like to have their (or, at least, some of them, like pilots for network controllers) downloaded before installation, just in case if I wouldn't be able to connect to the internet using the default drivers for windows only. And I found that many drivers that were previously installed on the laptop are more recent (the versions and dates are newer) than those that are NOW available on the official website of hp. For example, Realtek PCIE CardReader - my current version of the driver is 6.2.9200.28137 (25.01.2013), but the version availiably for download is 6.1.7601.85 11.0 M (2011-10-24). Broadcom Bluetooth 4.0 - my current version of the driver is 6.5.1.3703 (08.01.2013), the version that availiably to download is 6.5 (2011-11-01), etc.

I know, I'm probably missing or do not understand something here, but I really want to know what is happening with all these version numbers and dates. Thank you very much. Sorry for the grammar and everything I made mistakes.

I got a peek on the site of HP driver and google, and I see what you mean.

Drivers on the HP site doesn't are not updated as often - generally only for big bugs or new OS releases.

The companies who created the particular PC (for example, Realtek, Broadcom) part release more often, drivers that are downloaded and updated automatically in the background when they are available, that your drivers end up more recent than those offered by HP. essentially, HP are too lazy to update the drivers offered on their website.

From my experience, the wifi does not work after an operating system reinstalled until its driver is installed, but the ethernet connection. Once the PC has an internet connection, you can configure it to check for driver updates and it will download whatever it takes.

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