Dell Inspiron 5000e - Manual (Page 16)

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Drivers and Utilities for Microsoft® Windows® 98: Dell™ Inspiron™
5000 Series
Overview
This section explains how to install or reinstall Dell-provided device drivers and utilities on your Dell computer running the Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
operating system. You may need to use this information under the following conditions:
l You are reinstalling the Windows operating system.
l You are reinstalling the Dell-provided drivers and utilities.
l You installed a new primary hard-disk drive and you must install all of the system software.
Installing Drivers and Utilities for Windows
To install the system software, you need the following items:
l System Software CD
l CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive installed in the media bay of the computer
l Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition CD
l Microsoft Boot Disk Windows 98 Series diskette
System Software CD
The following figure shows the directory structure of the System Software CD for Inspiron 5000 series computers. The CD is bootable. The R:\> prompt appears
when you exit to MS-DOS® from the Diagnostics menu.
Overview Installing the Touch Pad Driver
System Software CD Installing Softex BayManager
Installing Windows 98 Installing the Internal Modem Driver (Optional)
Recreating the Hibernate (Save-to-Disk Suspend) File Installing the Software DVD Decoder Driver (Optional)
Installing the Audio Driver Installing the Intel SpeedStep Utility (Optional)
Installing the Video Driver Updating Drivers and Utilities
NOTES: Verify that Windows 98 is already installed on the hard-disk drive before you install any device drivers. To install Windows
98 Second Edition, see “
Installing Windows 98 ."
The drivers on the System Software CD are the same drivers that Dell installed on your hard-disk drive before shipping the
computer to you. To download the latest versions of these drivers, visit the Dell support Web site at http://support.dell.com.