Dell Inspiron 1100 Owner's Manual page 7

PC Card Problems
General Program Problems
A program crashes
A program stops responding
Error messages appear
Resolving Other Technical Problems
If Your Computer Gets Wet
If You Drop or Damage Your Computer
Drivers
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What Is a Driver?
Identifying Drivers
Reinstalling Drivers
Manually Reinstalling Drivers for Windows XP
Resolving Software and Hardware Incompatibilities
Using System Restore
Creating a Restore Point
Restoring the Computer to an Earlier Operating State
Undoing the Last System Restore
Reinstalling Microsoft
Before You Reinstall
Reinstalling Windows XP
8 Adding and Replacing Parts
Before You Add or Replace Parts
Memory
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Modem
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Hard Drive
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Returning a Hard Drive to Dell
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