He grabbed his "Rescue Drive" and sat down. He knew the OptiPlex 5040 was a workhorse, but its Intel SkyLake architecture required a specific sequence to wake up properly under a 64-bit environment.

The following are the main driver categories required for the Dell Optiplex 5040 running Windows 10 64-bit:

Windows 10 is great at finding basic drivers to get you online, but it often installs generic Microsoft drivers. These work for basic functionality but usually miss out on:

A24 (2.20.1) from July 2021 is the final signed release.