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Originally Posted by nego-oh-oh
a added note that just may help also !?!?
whenever i replaced a cd,my machine had trouble
recognizing the new replacement.
the fix was to,remove the old cd=> go through the bios setup,
and full system start-up,then shut down windows,un-plug
the power supply,attach the newer cd=>plug in power supply,
turn machine on,=>run bios setup again.
for some strange reason this has worked for me 99%
of the time.On other machines i could just replace the cd
run bios setup and all would workjust fine,
rather than remove cd,run bios,add new cd,run bios setup again.
ps.---replace you bios battery,and reapply thermal heat sink compound
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Well, one thing at a time.
I took a new tack on this job today (I also thought of putting a Linux
on the box but got a bad burn from the download.) The new tack was to
install Windows 2000 pro. It is apparently installed correctly (I'm using it now myself on my desktop machines) and it found the 3com NIC onboard the
motherboard by itself. Trying to find that stuff from Dell for old Win98 was
driving me up the wall. It was like going down the rabbit hole with one
error leading to another. This machine is for a user who knows nothing and
just wants to run email and the net down in the basement once in a while.
But she needs it for our organizational work.
So something of a fresh start today. I may have learned something about
Stop errors in Win2k as well.
I also found an old extra long IDE cable which may allow me to stuff
everything back in the case the way it's supposed to be.
But for the moment, I am going to put on Firefox. Then give the service
code at Dell and see if that will find the audio and video drivers needed
which Device Manager in Win2k tells me are still not working.
While I'm doing the Firefox can you give a step by step for what to
do at Dell?