yeah i was thinking of making my own image now that I realized some of the programs are terrible, but at the time I just wanted a quick restore

its all good now, right after I fixed the problem, I received the discs from dell that have all the software and drivers that I can install to make my xps just like i received it......a little too...

Well, I already solved the problem using the methods that I referenced to, but...

Your way (pressing f8) does not work....When I pressed f8 (before I fixed the problem...seen in my last post),...

here is what i did, through some tricky workarounds using live cd's, third party programs, and dos commands, I finally restored the factory image...

these guides really helped out for anyone else...

I am trying to restore my laptop (studio xps 16) to factory settings using the recovery image. If I look in my computer, i can see C and D drives. D is my recovery partition with 7gb full out of...

netgear and i dont think there is a limit to wireless devices

psp, laptop, ps3 is wireless

xbox and pc are the only wired items.

I can't just bridge the connection or make it so the old router acts as a repeater not a router?

i dont know what happened, but it works again.

i also reinstalled windows again just to be sure

I just got fios installed in my house. It comes with the wireless router...which is setup downstairs on the family pc. All my stuff...xbox, laptop, pc, psp, ps3 are all up stairs where the signal...

I haven't touched the bios in months. It was working fine, then all of a sudden, it stopped working.

I tried all USB slots and I have a Ps/2 keyboard and it still doesn't work. I know both keyboards work because I just tried them on another computer.

mine does the same thing, but it beeps once only.

there is no lights on either usb or ps/2 keyboard I use...but they work fine on other computers.

I am lost

When I boot up my pc, the first thing that happens is it goes to the bios status screen. It says information about ram, cpu, hdd's, etc. Then it asks you to press f1 to continue or delete to go to...

I have been trying to reformat win xp pro. I have the cd. I put it in. I selected "boot from cd" etc, etc. When I turn my pc on and it goes into the setup menu, it doesn't even get to the place where...

Winner

I have a dell, and the way I wipe the pc clean is to restart the pc, then I press some buttons which brings up the restore "to when I first got my pc" I've done it before, I just forget those...

I have about 230 songs of this type(mpeg-4 audio) in a folder and I want to put them on my mp3 player....my mp3 doesnt play mpeg-4 audio. So I need to get them to mp3 format. Is this possible? Is...

ie6 with google toolbar and just the basic macromedia, etc extensions on it.

BTW, I have made up my mind to buy a new pc this may.

Here are some possible specs:

amd athlon 64 x2 3800+
1gb...

I didn't find any problems. All my scans are skweaky clean.

I listen and download music and movies, internet, school reports, backing up stuff for my psp, and high quality games.

Ok I found out that 533 fsb is the most i can go. So how about this:

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80656-1

Newegg also has it I believe.

Will I notice a...

Ok, I have a dell de051 motherboard according to everest. Now what does this mean as afar as upgrading processors?

What should I do. I have gone through everything that I can think of. Here is my setup to help.

1). computer #1 in my brothers room(has wireless router and modem attached to his pc)
2)....

Well I got the pc at the end of december '05. So it is new. Some other forums recently told me about this quick lil program that disables programs running in the system tray. So currently, all I...

Ok, now I got rid of norton, and now avg free is the only thing running in my tray. I can't really tell if it helped or not. I also posted my hjt log file in the virus/spyware forum.

Here is my HJT log file.

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 9:31:07 PM, on 3/20/2006
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)
...

I also would like to know if any of this works...I'm having identical problems. BTW I also have norton running in the system tray.

A friend told me that he heard a rumor that norton creates...

My computer is slow all of a sudden, not like it used to be when I first had it. I only have norton antivirus running in the system tray and itunes occasionally. I have a 2.53 celly. 1gbram. ...