Dell Inspiron 8200 - Manual (Page 6)

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If you cannot eject the CD, CD-RW, or DVD drive tray . . . . . 85
If you hear an unfamiliar scraping or grinding sound . . . . . . 85
If the CD-RW drive stops writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
If you have problems with a hard drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
PC Card Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Network Problems
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87
Error Messages
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87
General Program Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
A program crashes
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89
A program stops responding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
A solid blue screen appears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Error messages appear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
E-Mail Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Resolving Other Technical Problems
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90
If Your Computer Gets Wet
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90
If You Drop or Damage Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Drivers
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92
What Is a Driver? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Identifying Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Reinstalling Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Manually Reinstalling Drivers for Windows XP . . . . . . . . . 94
Resolving Software and Hardware Incompatibilities
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95
Using Microsoft ® Windows ® XP System Restore . . . . . . . . . 96
Creating a Restore Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Restoring the Computer to an Earlier Operating State . . . . . 98
Undoing the Last System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
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