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Glide 03

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January 2nd, 2007 00:00

Why disable USB to Flex Bay before re-install

I had to do a re-install on my XPS 400 with XP media Center edition 2005 sp2. And all i could read was to disable USB to flex bay if you had a 13 in 1 card reader, which i have , but they didn't say why and when to re-enable it, does anyone know why.
The information i gathered was from the Dell support page before i did the reinstall.
 
                Thanks in advance Glide 03

jmwills

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January 2nd, 2007 03:00

If you have the OS reinstalled, then enable it.  It may have had something to do with the reader being a boot device or incompatible casuing crashed until the proper drivers were loaded.

Glide 03

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January 2nd, 2007 21:00

Thanks so much, I'll try to shorten a long story, about 4 mths ago Dell Rep, Micheal_page had me do a re-install ( clean install) and at that time he never had me boot to cd-rom or disable usb to flex bay! 
 So I didn't this time either and now my sound or sound's will not play. unless i hook up just a regular external speaker. because my sub-woofer and speakers will not work, they do work if i hook them to something other than the computer, I'am very puzzled !
 
     Thanks so much for your input!
     ps. I had 78+hrs of tech support with Dell
     until the warranty ran out!
     I'am done with them   Glide 03

Glide 03

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January 17th, 2007 14:00

Thank's to everyone for your help but I had to do another re-install to fix the problem and I think it was my own fault, but I was more careful about the Driver installation this time and everything went well, work's great no more error message's and no more Blue Screen of Death.
 
                    Thank You Everyone Glide 03

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