Dell Inspiron 4150 - Manual (Page 6)

6 Contents
A solid blue screen appears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Error messages appear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
E-Mail Problems
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71
If Your Computer Gets Wet
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72
If You Drop or Damage Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Resolving Other Technical Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Drivers
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74
What Is a Driver? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Identifying Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Reinstalling Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Manually Reinstalling Drivers for Windows XP . . . . . . . . . 76
Resolving Software and Hardware Incompatibilities
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77
Using Microsoft ® Windows ® System Restore . . . . . . . . . . 78
Creating a Restore Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Restoring the Computer to an Earlier Operating State . . . . . 80
Undoing the Last System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Reinstalling Microsoft ® Windows ® XP
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81
Before You Reinstall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Reinstalling Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Reinstalling Drivers and Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
3 Adding and Replacing Parts
Palm Rests
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86
Display Cover
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87
Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Returning a Hard Drive to Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90