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Tom Morina

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April 27th, 2007 15:00

Reinstall driver disk not booting

I have a Nvidia GeForce 4 440 go video card in my Inspiron 8200. When I bring up the desktop manager the only tab highlighted is the info tab. I want reinstall the original drivers but when I put the reinstallation disk in the CD it keeps looking for office 2003. Is their any way to get the disk to work without removing Office 2003? The last time I reinstalled Office I lost all my e-mail and cannot afford to have that happen again.
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    Posted April 30th, 2007 01:00

    Put the CD in the drive and hold the left shift key down for 20 seconds, this will stop the auto run from happening, now open windows explorer and find the cd drive and explore the GeForce CD and find the setup.exe and launch it from there.
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    Posted May 2nd, 2007 15:00

    Hi Mombodog Your suggestion worked great except...I can not find a GeForce file on the drivers, utilities and applications CD. Am I looking on the wrong CD?
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    Posted May 2nd, 2007 17:00

    If it is a card that you added yourself, the card should have come with its own driver disc, or you can go here and get the latest driver for that card.  http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
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    Posted May 2nd, 2007 23:00

    This is a laptop and I cannot find a driver for the GoForce4 440. Does anyone have a link or is the driver to old>
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    Posted May 3rd, 2007 00:00

    Model would be nice to know.
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    Posted May 3rd, 2007 01:00

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    Posted May 3rd, 2007 01:00

    Sorry my first post had that info. Inspiron 8200 OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600 OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Manufacturer Dell Computer Corporation System Model Inspiron 8200 System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~1994 Mhz BIOS Version/Date Dell Computer Corporation A11, 1/7/2004 SMBIOS Version 2.3 Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)" Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB Available Physical Memory 226.35 MB Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
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    Posted May 9th, 2007 01:00

    Sorry I was just letting you know that I did not forget to include the basic info about my computer. I greatly appreciate your help and I assume this forum keeps you very busy. The driver down load was successful but it caused problems.When I try to reduce the pixels because everything is so small on the screen I get a black frame around the display that reduces the size of the screen. Please advise. Thank You in advance for your help...Tom
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    Posted May 9th, 2007 02:00

    Is it a crt or lcd monitor, if it is a crt, then most of these types of monitors have size adjustments to take care of this problem.
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    Posted May 9th, 2007 03:00

    inspiron 8200 laptop lcd