Dell reinstall cd windows xp

I have a desktop with a peaceful scene on it and the icon for the recycle bin. In my hand, I have a pile of CD's that came with my computer.

Reinstall cd for windows XPsp1. Reinstalling Antivirus software, support software, Multimedia software and internet software Application. I don't seem to find an Intel Chipset driver of any of the others for that matter as everything is worded differently? Place the Dell Resource CD into the drive and allow it to autorun.

It will ask to install, click OK. Once the application has installed you should see a list on the left allowing you to select the computer for which you are seeking drivers.

Select your model number, and then look along the top of the window. You should see a list, one of the selections being Drivers. Click on that. You should then be presented with a list of drivers, some of them having checkmarks to the left.

Those are the files that the application has determined are needed. One of the files so marked should be labeled as the Intel Chipset Installation Utility. Click, or double click, on that file to begin. You should get a small window with buttons labled Open and Save to Disk. Click Open to start the auto-extractor which will extract and save the driver files to your hard drive. Once the extractor has finished you should get another small window asking if you want to install the driver.

Click OK or Yes, whichever is available. The chipset driver will be installed; when complete, you should restart the computer so that the registry will be updated. When the computer begins to boot up you may be asked to press a key to boot from CD, even if you have been having problems with this up until now. If you see that, ignore it and allow the computer to boot from the hard drive.

When the computer has completed the boot process, select the next driver you want to install and follow the same procedure as that for the chipset driver. To start up the application to get to the next driver, just eject the CD and re-insert it so that it will again auto-run. I notice that you have a Soundblaster Live CD in your collection. Before you install the driver for your sound card you need to determine if you have an actual Soundblaster card or if this CD is the overlay for the integrated sound.

The easiest way to do this is to look at the rear of the computer. At the bottom of the tower are the openings for the PCI expansion cards.

If you have a Soundblaster card your speakers should be plugged into a card that shows in one of those openings. If you are using the overlay for the integrated sound your speakers will be plugged into the connectors that are about half-way toward the top end of the tower. If you have the actual Soundblaster card, do not install the sound driver that you will find on the Resource CD. Instead you will need to eject the Resource CD at that point and insert the Soundblaster Live CD instead so that the appropriate driver will be installed.

If you are using the overlay for the integrated sound, go ahead and install the driver from the Resource CD; you will use the Soundblaster CD to install the overlay after you have finished with the Dell drivers.

All is going well. Also listed are. ATI Rage Ultra. Now I'm not sure if I should have? I looked at the back of the computer and my speakers plug into a card at the bottom so I think I have the actual Soundblaster. I'll wait on the sound blaster install from soundblaster cd until I hear back from you about the other driver installs. You can ignore the ATI video drivers as you have already installed a driver for the nVidia card that the Resource application has detected.

The NetXtreme driver is most likely the on-board controller, and if it installed, you probably needed it.

Most of the drivers will refuse to install if the software doesn't detect the hardware that it was designed to support. I agree that you have a Soundblaster card, so do not install the ADI driver on your list; that driver is for the on-board sound adapter which you are not using.

I'm not that sure about the mouse driver; I don't see it on the Dell downloads list so I expect that it was intended for another computer model. IDE hard drives do not require these. It appears you've done well.

All that should be left is to install the Soundblaster driver. The easiest way to do that is to download either of the files at one of the links I gave you earlier to a computer that can burn a CD you can use on your So, other than the ADI driver should I try installing all of the others?

Thanks for your feedback. The computer I am using has a slow boot of approximately 7 minutes after installing MSE which added approximately 1. I have scanned in full mode using MSE for 15 to 21 hours several times and it found no malware. I scanned in full mode using malwarebytes it found no malware. Others were used too. I have a reinstallation cd for windows xp from Dell and anticipate getting a windows installation cd.

I was told this would provide more flexability for the installation but I do not understand what this means yet. Each web site that I have visited adds another precaution or another pitfall and it appears to me that I need to learn a lot more before I get started so that I can have a working system and the shortest amount of downtime. I have uninstalled many programs and reinstalled them and they work better with a reinstall. This may be the same thing with the operating system.

This may be corrupted software as opposed to malware. In any case please let me know the steps as though it is a malware issue. In viewing another web site it reports that I should use add remove programs to uninstall my programs one by one for licensing issues to get the uninstall registered on the server web site? Please explain for windows or office or any other programs.

Each web site has something else to watch out for and this step was not mentionned on many of the other web sites. Some of the information in your post I did not understand. What did you mean by tied to the bios? And what did you be by pre-activated? What does activating windows mean? If I use the reinstallation disk for reinstallation then at a later time if the operating system need to be repaired is that possible with the reinstallation CD?

If I have the option to install the operating system using an installation cd will I then not have more options in case a later repair is needed? Sometime in Microsoft will have windows 8. If there is a small chance that this computer which is 1. Otherwise I will have used either a dell reinstallation cd which has windows xp home sp2 or a new windows xp professional sp2 depending on which gives the most flexability or options for any possible future operating system repairs. I had bought my dell inspiron laptop computer in and had the hard drive replaced in When the hard drive was replaced under extended warantee dell sent to me another set of installation disks.

So I no long can tell which is the old and which is the new on some of the disks. I'll list all the disks I have and their contents. The above 12 disks are what I have for the reinstallation and some are either duplicates or updates. I do not want to install the McAfee antivirus and I am not sure whether it will be automatically installed or whether it is an option. I would like to reinstall MSE.

I may need to install the McAfe and then uninstall. If i have to install Mcafee then the add remove programs failed to uninstall all of the antivirus software and I will then need to run the special removal tool again.

Is this something I can download now onto the external hard drive and use when needed or must I have a downloaded browser and an internet connection to get and properly use this antivirus software removal tool.

Bear indicated that with the combined issues that i am having that I have malware. This is in spite of the numerous malware scans whether norton, trend micro, hijackthis, kapersky etc. There was a period of time in which i did not actively update the antivirus definitions and this convinced him that this must be a malware problem. So it seems sensible to replace the operating system and just make sure all the bases are covered.

At the same time I would like to understand if there is a way to determine if corrupted files are the problems and if there is no detected malware by numerous scans whether corrupted files can be fixed. That is does windows xp give you the option to run a repair with either the reinstallation disk or a brand new installation disk? If you have no detected malware and then perform a repair and the system appears to work normally again is the problem that the malware still has altered the registry and this is missed by the repair tool?

So it is essentially an incomplete repair? Is that the reason for always doing a complete reinstall or is it something else? Based on what I know as of this moment I would make these steps and i bet there are lots of errors. But here goes anyway. Please correct me anywhere I get the steps out of order, make a mistake or miss a step.

Currently I am backing up my documents and desktop but I will need to learn how to backup files of contacts within microsoft outlook, aol etc. This has already been done with MS and malwarebytes. Search instead for. Did you mean:. Last reply by jazz82 Unsolved. I dont have a system disc, is there anyway to reinstall windows xp??

All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Replies Perhaps if you told us more about your computer model and when you received it, we could be of more help. I don't know what you mean by a "system disc".

If the disk came with the computer that you are using now, then you can use it to reinstall Windows on that computer.