Go into the system bios and change the boot order to boot from the CD-rom first. That will prevent your current OS from loading. Put the CD in the drive and reboot. Follow the onscreen prompts.
Dimension 4100 Bought January 2001 Windows XP Home SP2 Slipstreamed 866 Pentium 3 512 Ram Western Digital 60 gig Hard Drive Western Digital 120 gig Hard Drive Sony 19" LCD Flat Panel Monitor GeForce 5200 Creative SB Live Digital Research DVD RW RCA Cable Modem HP Deskjet 932 HP K-60 all in one Canon Scanner
look at the "reinstall guide" for your computer in "dell support".. that will give you some ideas as to what is involved in installing an operating system on your model dell, even if you are installing win 2000 instead of win xp..
you could try doing a clean reinstall of win xp and see if that straightens out the problems that you are having..
Tflyingsolo
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July 23rd, 2005 13:00
Don,
Go into the system bios and change the boot order to boot from the CD-rom first. That will prevent your current OS from loading. Put the CD in the drive and reboot. Follow the onscreen prompts.
Dimension 4100 Bought January 2001
Windows XP Home SP2 Slipstreamed
866 Pentium 3
512 Ram
Western Digital 60 gig Hard Drive
Western Digital 120 gig Hard Drive
Sony 19" LCD Flat Panel Monitor
GeForce 5200
Creative SB Live
Digital Research DVD RW
RCA Cable Modem
HP Deskjet 932
HP K-60 all in one
Canon Scanner
redwolfe_98
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dcolepca
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July 23rd, 2005 16:00
Great ideas, thanks, those really helped me out! Now on to search for drivers.....
Cheers and thanks again,
Don