No, there were no yellow exclamation points in device driver.  When I donate it I'll clean off the hard drive.



Hugh Vandervoort <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>The resource CD contains drivers specific to the motherboard and chipset
>installed, so it's unlikely they were out of date.
>The most important part of my reply was whether you'd checked for Yellow
>marks in Control Panel/System/Device Manager.(I should have been more
>specific). Yellow marks here would indicate that critical drivers are
>missing, which I suspect is the case.
>Dell makes very reliable computers, for the most part, and I regularly
>recommend them.
>
>[log in to unmask] wrote:
>> I installed drivers from the manufacturers, not dell drivers.  I replaced a lot of stuff, and the Dell drivers were way out of date anyway.  I won't buy another Dell, but when the need arises I'll build what I want. I should donate the dell to a charity.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hugh Vandervoort <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Did you use the Resource disk to install the drivers?
>>> Take a look in Control Panel for any yellow entries.
>>>
>>>
>>> [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>>> I have the same question about Dell computers.  I put a new HD on a 2001 Dell Dimension 8200 with Win XP Pro
>>>  (I used a Dell OEM XP Pro CD), and it never ran right after that.  It
>>> is the slowest running installation of XP
>>>
>>>  I have ever seen.  It boots, but slower than molasses in January.
>>> When I bought the computer it had Win Me on it.
>>>
>>>  The 8200 is now sitting in a closet gathering dust because no one
>>> could stand using it.
>>>
>>>  We timed the boot at nearly 15 minutes, and there wasn't that much
>>> software on the machine.
>>>
>>>  These proprietary machines must have some built-in self destruct
>>> mechanism if you remove their special partition.
>>>
>>>

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