Dell Inspiron 2650 - Manual (Page 6)

6 Contents
If Your Computer Gets Wet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
If You Drop or Damage Your Computer
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66
Resolving Other Technical Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Reinstalling the Modem and Network Drivers . . . . . . . . . 69
Using the Device Driver Rollback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Resolving Software and Hardware Incompatibilities
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70
Using System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Creating a Restore Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Restoring the Computer to an Earlier Operating State . . . . . 72
Undoing the Last System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Reinstalling Microsoft ® Windows ® XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Before You Reinstall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Reinstalling Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Reinstalling Drivers and Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
3 Adding and Replacing Parts
Removing a Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Installing a Battery
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78
Adding Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Adding a Modem Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Replacing the Hard Drive
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85
Returning a Hard Drive to Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
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