Great value P4 mobo needed please!

Seriously - you want to get hold of the correct Dell System Recovery CD. Replacements are available from Dell or from third parties. Use google for 'Dell Recovery CD' and there are lots of places that supply them. Get the right one for your system and it should be just like the day it left Clonagh!
 
Sounds excellent, just a couple of questions:

1) Can I download the ISO from anywhere? I've already had the PC for over a week so time really is of the essence at the moment!

2) Is there anyway to find out exactly which one I'd need?

Huge thanks!
 
xKratosx said:
Sounds excellent, just a couple of questions:

1) Can I download the ISO from anywhere? I've already had the PC for over a week so time really is of the essence at the moment!
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There is bound to be somewhere, but nowhere i know of offhand.

xKratosx said:
2) Is there anyway to find out exactly which one I'd need?
Huge thanks!
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You need the one that matches your model number. Somewhere on the machine is a little silver sticker with a build-code. Type that into the Dell website checker and it will tell you everything you need to know about your system.
 
Ah! Just found it, typed it into the Dell website and it came up with all sorts of relevant drivers, that's utterly fantastic, thank you!

Now all I need is to source a rebuild disk I guess! :)
 
Hmm, re-installed everything, but when I went to install the LAN device I noticed that it hung on the DOS window and didn't do anything, restarted, re-installed and it all seemed fine.

However, then the computer started taking between two minutes and forever to boot up properly (the three scrolling blue bars below the XP logo), programs were crashing, and it was completely freezing up for a few seconds every so often, all things that it wasn't doing before I format it!

I wasn't sure if it was related to one of the CD drives again because they were doing funny things, and sure enough on the final boot up it couldn't find the (rather temperamental) DVD drive and it seemed to run fine.

Is this purely coincidence do you think? Or is it the genuine cause and should I just completely disconnect the DVD drive? I know I should have checked it more but it's getting late now so thought I'd just check on here and get back to it tomorrow. Thanks!
 
Hmm, just when I thought I was getting somewhere, it's now coming up with an error saying something along the lines of "ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupt" - absolute nightmare!

I've just been looking at a great page regarding the problem ( http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000646.htm ) and since it's happened so soon after a format I must say I'm a little worried that the HDD is corrupt. Saying that, I did mess around with Boot.ini to change the OS selection timeout change from 30 seconds to 3 seconds, so I'm going to rebuild that too :/
 
lol I feel sorry for you mate. There is nothing worse than offering to fix a pc that should be an easy fix and it buggering up on you.

1. Consider how technical your friend is. If he is a complete dunce in the areas of ict, then you should suck your teeth and give of a highly technical speech with some nice sounding numbers and basically say "the pcs ****ed". Try and shift the blame onto him/her. e.g Did you every defrag, do something with your pc.

2. Come out and say, dude the pc is sodded up. Get a a new one. I mean who the **** runs a p4 2.0 you could say to him. Come and meet these friendly people on this forum who will very pursuasivly help you part with your money.

3. Say to him the whole things needs to be upgraded, and charge the **** out of him....for your lost time :P


Lol probably wont help but hey, I cant think of any technical suggestions and they could be more useful in the long run ;)
 
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