A friend of mined needed a clean install for his Dell Dimension 2400. The restore
disc is very different as it wants to know what partition you want to put it on. There was no other choices.So I believe that we destroyed the restore partition without knowing it had one.If I buy a Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition OEM Version will it work to solve this problem? TigerDirect sells a copy. I need the full disc and not an upgrade. But will we have drivers problems. He does have other disc with his Dell which one says its for drivers but in reality its just disc of Docs. And one that does actually install the modem as he's still on dialup.Can I wipe his hard-drive clean and install an OEM version of Home Edition and will things work?A little out of pocket money is easier then suffering
through trying to get it done.
I have a Dell Dimension 2400 1.6ghz 1gb RAM with XP Pro on it for several years now. It has many programs installed on it. I purchased a faster used Dell Dimension 8400 3.6ghz hyperthreading 3gb RAM with XP Pro on it.My question is simple. My Dimension 2400 has an IDE hard drive and the 8400 has SATA. Rather than spend days re-installing and tweaking all of the programs on the 8400 I tried the following. I used Acronis Easy Migrate 7 to Image the IDE hard drive to the SATA hard drive and installed it into the 8400. It would not boot, I tried a repair install, then while booting I get a blue screen stop Error 0x0000007B. What do I have to do to fix this so it will boot?
I have really screwed up my computer --dell dimension 2400 ? talk about a mess. I wanted to clean off the hard drive, so I tried to reinstall xp using a friend?s cd because the only xp cd I could find was an upgrade (from win98).I don?t know what I did wrong (or if the problem was with the cd), but setup got into a loop we could not get out of.Since I had my xp cd to upgrade from 98, we tried to install win98. It did clean off the hard drive, but it failed to install completely and now the cd drive will not work. And when I click on IE, an error message ?Msoobe? comes up and says it has perfomed an illegal operation and shuts down.My brother also has a dell dimension 2400, and he thought there was a way to reset the computer to its original configuation. I tried the Control+F11 that he suggested, but the screen says it needs a device file to run that it cannot find. There is a line that reads Vnetbios.
I am trying to "Killdisk" my HD so I can reinstall Win Xp on my Dell Dimension 2400 computer.I did reinstall Win Xp many time without any problem in the past, but this time something is totally wrong.It usually take aprox. 1 hour to reinstall but this time it took 5 hours and in the end:"13 minutes to finish install"and it frozes and nothing happen after that, I tryed 5 times with same result.I guess it got Virus/Malware in the root of computer memory. So I tryed to use Killdisk to clean up and start new to reinstall Win Xp, but I got following resxponse:"Error loading Free Dos Kernell"
I am having a hard time with running a chkdsk/f I can not get to any other screen but that. I didnt not have a problem with this computer until the large battery went out on my surge protector and when I moved it to my husbands music room (because his computer got a virus) Upon start up it gives the the options to start up normal, safe mode ect. Well I dont know what to do...I believe the f drive is my 3.5 disc drive it is dusty inside there and blew some out, that did not help and then I unplugged it, no help with that either. Any suggestions will help as I am unable to figure out what to do.
I am trying to install new graphics card(Radeon 9250). I had my onboard graphics disabled but windows reinstalls it.I insterted the ATI disc, and I recieved the message,"try to set up with display adapter with standard VGA driver before running set up". Got me. I have a Dell Dimension 2400, 768MB RAM,and I am so unsure of anything else.
I will try to make this brief. I have a dell dimension 2400 that the hd went down. I have a like new IBM drive installed, the bios recognizes it, however, I cannot get the computer to re-install the cd that i have from dell to reinstall xp. i have the boot sequence to start with the cd, however all I get is press f1 to try again, for f2 for setup.
What other security (protection from virus and spyware) system do I need in addition to the already built in Windows firewall?Currently I have a Microsoft Windows XP, Home Edition, 2002 version, service pack 3, intel, celeron, CPU 2.20 GHz, 2.00 of RAM.
I am working on a PC for a friend and after installing Adaware,Spybot S&D, Spywareblaster and Avast I found too many things wrong with the PC and was trying to just reinstall Windows instead. I followed Dells instructions to Hold down Control and then hit F11 and then release both at the same time to get to the restore screen. Well it never came up and I got to the Safe Mode Last Known Good Configuration screen instead. I kept trying and nothing would change, so I picked Safe Mode. Now all I get is the BSOD that states Unmountable boot volume. Stop Error 0x000000ed (0x83376900,0xc0000006,0x0000000,0x0000000)
We have a Dell Dimension 2400 with Windows XP installed. We also have Norton Internet Security 2007, Windows Defender, and do not seem to have any viruses or spyware. Out hard drive is just under half full (17.5 GB of 37.2 GB).takes 5 or 6 minutes from the time we turn on the computer until we can actually do something with it (connect to the internet with IE or check email with Outlook 2003). I uninstalled Google Desktop and turned off Windows Messenger (from the start menu), both of which helped some (used to be even slower). I have tried to uninstall Dell Alert (which starts every time) but am unable to with Uninstall Programs and cannot find DAMon.exe to just delete that. Once it is up and running, the PC is reasonably fast (the problem is just at the startup and first 5 to 10 minutes). I have a newer laptop I use on our wireless network and it connects very quickly to the internet so that is not the problem (as far as I can tell). We did recently switch from a cable modem to slightly slower DSL.
I have a dell 2400,2.2 gig cpu, 512 ram, that I just put a new hard drive(40 gig) in,I installed winxp pro ,but the computer will not boot from hard drive,I went to repair console on the win xp cd,and typed fixmbr, then when it said it had done that I again typed fixboot, but it still will not boot,
a friend has a Dell Dimension 4550 (P4-2Ghz, 60Gb HDD, 784mb RAM- added 512mb and a NEC DVD+/-R, circa 2002 I think?) and needs to do a clean install. He has the CD that came with it. We looked all over google and the Dell site and can't seem to find out how to do a clean install. We pressed F12 and tried to boot from the CD-ROM and thought it was going to work, but it said that we were trying to install XP on a partition that already had XP on it. I saw no option for full/clean restore.
I just tried to install a new hard drive into a dell dimension 8100. It appears the motherboard is shot and so I am just going to use this new hard drive for storagew and I just want to remove XP off of it. Is it best to FDISK and if so how do I do that on XP? Is it the same as on the other operating systems or is there a better way?
Had a major crash and now can not install windows on the Dell pc as it can not see the hard drives anymore.
Installed a brand new hard drive and still no luck just says can not locate a hard drive to install windows on, done a check in the bios on the hard drive and it says it's fine but can not see it on the fresh install.
My hard drive's windows files have become corrupt and I need the files on it, so I purchased a new hard drive. I can't seem to install Windows XP Home onto the new hard drive. Everything goes fine, but then I get an error message saying it can't install the product catalogs. Is this because I'm using a reinstall CD that was provided by Dell.
I got a friends personal computer it is a dell demension 2400 it won't do anything except go to the screen with big dell letters on it.I have a soyo techaid card it came up with a code number 35 which could be initialize alternate chipset registers or is it what dell says there code 35 is cmos shutdown test in progress or bad.
I want to reinstall xp on my machine. I am wondering how to do this do I boot from the xp disc? Then when I have to make a partition what are some of your suggestions on how much I should use i have a 500gb hard drive. I also have windows vista 32 bit and 64 bit. I am going to install windows 7 after this. I am wondering if I should install windows vista then upgrade to windows 7 or just upgrade to windows 7 from xp. I am also wondering can i just install 64 bit windows on top of windows xp or do i need to do 32 bit then upgrade to 64 bit.
Hello folks, I am running XP Home on a Dell 2400 & want to have the Task Manager automatically load so it will be showing in the Task Tray at startup w/out having to bring it up myself. Is this possible?
I've been working on trying to restore my girlfriends Dell and I'm having no luck. It's a pre June 2004 computer so the Ctrl F11 startup trick doens't work and i don't have a restore disk.
Transferred all information from Dimension (Dell) to Dell XPS 410. Both computers using XP program. When I start to use my Picasa program I have a continual pop up that says " The DLL "cpuinf32.dll" can not be loaded. OS reports: The specifdied module could not be fouind. Am no computeer whiz--so this is all "Greek" to me. What should I do to correct this?
I recently returned to Kliptsch a pair of speakers which were not functioning well. While waiting for the replacements, I am unable to get any sound out of the computer. This includes streaming radio broadcasts as well as TV clips.
I first had this problem when I tried to do the first installation. When it would get to the part of the setup in windows mode, it would just keep rebooting. I was able to finally get it to finish installing, and it seemed to be working fine, untill I tried to make sure all my drivers, applications, and my cable internet conection were installed.
I often but not always get an error message when working online. I am not sure whether it is a dell problem or my internet service provider. I have dial up. A small box pops up in my face and it says . . . windows must now shut down because the RPC service terminated. System shutdown initiated by NT/AUTHORITY then it counts down 60 sec and shuts off my computer. I have no control when it does this, i cannot X it out or make it stop. Very annoying. Sometimes it goes for hours and does not do anything, sometimes it will do it 3 times in 30 min. I have scanned for virus' and it comes up clear.
i'm working on a dell dimension 2400.windows crashed and there are no restore cds.i formated the hardrive and installed win xp professional.in device manager i don't have drivers for the ethernet controller and the usb controller.does anyone know where i can find these?
I've got an old Dell Dimension XPS T450 Pent-450 which had Windows Me but I put 2000 in it. Ran fine untill I tried to add memory. I put the memory back the way it was but now I get a window saying "THE LOGON USER INTERFACE DLL MSGINA DLL FAILED TO LOAD" What do I do to fix this problem?
This has probably been asked before so feel free to respond with a link.I have a dell Dimension 4600 which i have reinstalled windows xp HE on countless times. It has never mentioned its license or asked for the code on the side.My friend has dell Inspiron 2500 laptop. She has had it for 6-7 years now and has never done a reinstall or reformat, so naturally its on its last legs.
I am looking to upgrade the memory on my Dell Dimension 2400 to at least 512 mb. I have heard that you have to purchase a specific kind of ram (dell certified?) and that it won't just use any kind of brand. Is this true? If so, can someone point me in the right direction.I know that it must be DDR PC2700/333 but I'm unclear as to which brand to buy.I spoke with Dell and hung up unclear (she spoke very poor english) so really got nowhere.
i did a clean install for a dell desktop 2400 and i'm having trouble finding the drivers i need. I went to dell.com and the ones i have dl havent fixed the problem. Is there a site that can diagnose and install drivers that are missing for free?
