***Format & Reinstall of XP Questions (PLEASE POST ALL FORMAT QUESTIONS HERE)***

[JeffreyDJ]

MSB-I'm not encouraging you to do this, but I did. I installed the pro Wireless tools and let windows manage the wireless connection. I've had much better luck with the built-in windows wireless tools.

zioxide-"cli.exe is installed alongside ATI's range of graphics cards with the Catalyst hardware driver range. Installs a easy-to-access taskbar icon for access to diagnostics features."

[jaden403]

Hello,

I followed your guide to the letter and everything is working fine .... except for MediaDirect. I booted from the driver CD and did the whole

Type cd\MD2 and press enter
Type Repair and press enter
Select OK and press Enter

thing and I thought everything was okay. However, when I press the MediaDirect button nothing happens. Also, does this have anything to do with Standby and Hibernate? These options are no longer in the "Turn Off Computer" menu. Thanks...

Jaden403

[zioxide]

well I guess its fixed because the error has gone away... must have been there because I hadn't finished updating windows and stuff. Everything is working now, thanks alot.

[MSBSpectator]

MSB-I'm not encouraging you to do this, but I did. I installed the pro Wireless tools and let windows manage the wireless connection. I've had much better luck with the built-in windows wireless tools.

the problem is the windows one says it cannot manage the wireless networks, it actually says something like "if you have another wireless controller, use that". However, I'm certain that both were capable of detecting networks before I reformatted.

well i found a few more oddities since the reinstall

1. I have the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG on my e1705, and after installing the driver for it from dell's drivers site, I now have 2 wifi icons in the system tray - the usual windows wifi icon and the Intel one. However, the windows icon can no longer detect networks - only the intel one can find and connect/disconnect to networks. The windows one however, can detect the number of packets sent/received once I actually connect to a network.

Is it possible to give both the ability to detect and connect to networks? I recall this was the case when the laptop first came.

2. I noticed that my nVidia control panel is missing its ability to monitor the GPU temperature after reformatting and reinstalling Dell's driver for the 7900 GS.

How do I get that back?

[Amber]

Hello,

I followed your guide to the letter and everything is working fine .... except for MediaDirect. I booted from the driver CD and did the whole

Type cd\MD2 and press enter
Type Repair and press enter
Select OK and press Enter

thing and I thought everything was okay. However, when I press the MediaDirect button nothing happens. Also, does this have anything to do with Standby and Hibernate? These options are no longer in the "Turn Off Computer" menu. Thanks...

Jaden403

For the media Direct problem, you must have Dell's Quickset installed. You can download this from support.dell.com on the Driver's & Download page under Applications.

On the second problem, you probably need to update XP. Run your windows update. If you still have problems after that, check your power management settings (in control panel) and make sure that hibernate is enable.

[Amber]

the problem is the windows one says it cannot manage the wireless networks, it actually says something like "if you have another wireless controller, use that". However, I'm certain that both were capable of detecting networks before I reformatted.

right click on the satellite icon in your task bar, and select "Use MS Client". If you intel is running, MS can't manage your wireless networks.

[MSBSpectator]

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2. I noticed that my nVidia control panel is missing its ability to monitor the GPU temperature after reformatting and reinstalling Dell's driver for the 7900 GS.

How do I get that back?

[ardearl]

Please help me. I've just reformatted my dell6400. Few problems occured:

1. My bluetooth cant be detected anymore after i installed the driver from dell website. Right after i reformatted, the bluetooth icon was in the systemtray. (i installed the dell wireless 350 bluetooth internal module driver). it dissappeared right i after i install the driver. how to make it function again?

(edit - bluetooth problem is solved - i uninstalled the driver n it's back to normal again )

2. before i reformatted, i had 4 partitions. i deleted the third partition, hence the unpartitioned size increased. later, i decided to make it into a new partition.. which was named as drive E. how can i merge this drive E into drive C? n if i cant merge it into drive C, what can i do with it?

3.i receive this error when i wanted to download for windows security updates n windows defender from microsoft website: "Files required to use Microsoft Update are no longer registered or installed on your computer". Before i reformatted my harddisk, i can download windows defender and windows security updates easily from microsoft.

thnks very much for your help.

[AmitK]

Hi,
I have Dell Inspiron E1405 notebook. I had to partition my hard disk, which resulted in formatting the disk. After installing Windows XP, I installed Media Direct software through the CD, which I had asked from Dell. Also created a partition of 4GB for it. The Media direct software got installed properly, but when pressed the Media Direct button, it gave an error message "System32>Hal.dll missing/corrupt. Reinstall the software or restart the computer". I tried fixing the problem by using the Dell MediaDirect Repair Utility given on the Dell website ( drivers and downloads). But I am still getting the same error message.

Does anyone have an idea how to solve this problem?

Also can anyone let me know the part number (or version number) of DELL Media Direct cd for E1405?

Please help.

[Msyvc]

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2. I noticed that my nVidia control panel is missing its ability to monitor the GPU temperature after reformatting and reinstalling Dell's driver for the 7900 GS.

How do I get that back?

On mine I found that older\stock drivers did not have the GPU temp function and newer ones do. I'm currently on 91-28 and both the "simplified" control panel and the detailed Display settings have the temp. Are you right-clicking Tray Icon, clicking Laptop Display, and thus opening detailed settings? Did you have newer drivers before you reinstalled?

EDIT: My drivers are from LaptopVideo2Go.com