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Name: thebigeis
Date: December 8, 2006 at 11:24:23 Pacific
OS: me
CPU/Ram: 128mb
Product: dell inspiron 5000e
Comment:

i just wiped my hd, reinstalled windows me, and now
everthing is abnormally big, my background was initially just
gray, but when changing it to the clouds background it was
gray and white. it appears as though it is in safe mode. i
can't change it's appearance in the desktop properties. any
help?



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Response Number 1
Name: orbital
Date: December 8, 2006 at 11:27:47 Pacific
Reply:

Why not install drivers ??


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Response Number 2
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: December 8, 2006 at 11:31:52 Pacific
Reply:

Go to Dell's website. Enter the Service Tag for your laptop and you can obtain the video drivers, as well as any other ones you need.

Life is more painless for those who are brainless.


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Response Number 3
Name: thebigeis
Date: December 8, 2006 at 11:32:02 Pacific
Reply:

how do i do that?


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Response Number 4
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: December 8, 2006 at 11:37:36 Pacific
Reply:

How do you do what? Go to Dell's website?

www.dell.com
Support and Help
Drivers and Downloads

It's very easy if you just look. :)

Life is more painless for those who are brainless.


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Response Number 5
Name: thebigeis
Date: December 8, 2006 at 12:02:33 Pacific
Reply:

well i meant how do i install the drivers... from the message
above but i'll do that too


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Response Number 6
Name: orbital
Date: December 8, 2006 at 23:33:33 Pacific
Reply:

Well thankyou, but on the DELLL page is instructions for installing the VGA Driver:

http://support.euro.dell.com/suppor...


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Response Number 7
Name: jam
Date: December 9, 2006 at 07:07:15 Pacific
Reply:

"i don't know what i'm doing"

Exactly! And you never should have formatted given that fact.

What about the rest of your drivers? Motherboard chipset, sound, modem, LAN, etc? I'm sure the video isn't the only thing that's not working properly.

http://support.dell.com/support/dow...

"TSTOAC"?

I had to look that one up...LOL


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Response Number 8
Name: jboy
Date: December 9, 2006 at 15:50:13 Pacific
Reply:

Heh - and it's not a term I use lightly.

For an aspect of Windows that has barely changed since the early nineties, I'm always a bit amazed at how often this confounds so many.

(formatting is its own reward?)

I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter


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Response Number 9
Name: jboy
Date: December 9, 2006 at 18:59:38 Pacific
Reply:

... hopeless

I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter


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Response Number 10
Name: thebigeis
Date: December 9, 2006 at 22:46:08 Pacific
Reply:

k.. figured it out. thanks jennifer.


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