Dell Inspiron 300m - Manual (Page 7)

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Drive Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
If you cannot save a file to a floppy drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
PC Card Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
General Program Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
A program crashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
A program stops responding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
A solid blue screen appears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Error messages appear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Resolving Other Technical Problems
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89
If Your Computer Gets Wet
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89
If You Drop or Damage Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
What Is a Driver? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Identifying Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Resolving Software and Hardware Incompatibilities
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94
Using Microsoft ® Windows ® XP
System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Creating a Restore Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Restoring the Computer to an Earlier Operating State . . . . . . 95
Undoing the Last System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Reinstalling Microsoft ® Windows ® XP
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97
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Reinstalling Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
9 Adding and Replacing Parts
Before You Add or Replace Parts
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102
Adding Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102