Dell Inspiron 1100 - Manual (Page 7)

Contents 7
PC Card Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
General Program Problems
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86
A program crashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
A program stops responding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Error messages appear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Resolving Other Technical Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
If Your Computer Gets Wet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
If You Drop or Damage Your Computer
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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Creating a Restore Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Restoring the Computer to an Earlier Operating State . . . . . . 93
Undoing the Last System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Reinstalling Microsoft ® Windows ® XP
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95
Before You Reinstall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Reinstalling Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
8 Adding and Replacing Parts
Before You Add or Replace Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Modem
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103
Hard Drive
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104
Returning a Hard Drive to Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106