Dell Inspiron 5100 - Manual (Page 7)

Contents 7
If you have problems with a hard drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
PC Card Problems
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85
General Program Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
A program crashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
A program stops responding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Error messages appear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Resolving Other Technical Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
If Your Computer Gets Wet
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87
If You Drop or Damage Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
What Is a Driver? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Identifying Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Reinstalling Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Manually Reinstalling Drivers for Windows XP . . . . . . . . . 91
Resolving Software and Hardware Incompatibilities . . . . . . . 92
Using System Restore
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92
Creating a Restore Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Restoring the Computer to an Earlier Operating State . . . . . . 93
Undoing the Last System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Reinstalling Microsoft ® Windows ® XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Before You Reinstall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Reinstalling Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
8 Adding and Replacing Parts
Before You Add or Replace Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Memory
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100
Modem and Mini PCI Card
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102
Adding a Modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103