On 8/27/15 4:11 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:10:06 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 8/27/15 9:18 AM, Keyser Söze wrote:
My wife got a new desktop computer, and I'm "preparing" her old Dell
desktop as a giveaway. So, I'm installing a "fresh" version of Win 7 on
it. I just know it will crash halfway through or fail to install drivers
or, well, the usual Windows crap.

"Your computer will restart several times during installation."

Until it stops restarting altogether.



Crikey, what a pain in the ass. I had to hunt down some missing drivers
on the bloody awful Dell site, and I'll still have work to do. But at
least it didn't die on me...yet.

Didn't Dell take you right to your machine page when you entered the
service tag number?
Then the only problem is you have to load that Dell download manager.
I usually try to goose it up to the point where I can get to the web
from the machine I am building (ignoring the errors), then it is
pretty easy.
Dell gives you a recovery disk in the package you got when you bought
it. It will have all the drivers and all of the preloaded software.

I never seem to get those with the Dells that get dropped off here but
I do have a pretty good collection of Dell drivers from over the
years.


I've got it all up and running, including the little bit of peculiar
hardware Dell packed in...finding the right video driver was a pain in
the butt, since there were eight listed for the machine. I have no idea
where the Dell distribution CDs are. The damned Dell AUTODETECT did not
work.

On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:47:42 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

The damned Dell AUTODETECT did not
work.

That is unusual if you connected with that machine.
I have had to actually look at the chips to find drivers but Dell has
been a bit better about it.

On 8/27/15 5:35 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:47:42 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

The damned Dell AUTODETECT did not
work.

That is unusual if you connected with that machine.
I have had to actually look at the chips to find drivers but Dell has
been a bit better about it.


Oh, Dell has stopped supply replacement CDs with the OS and drivers. Now
it ships a USB recovery plug in, for which it charges $40.

On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 18:58:28 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 8/27/15 5:35 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:47:42 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

The damned Dell AUTODETECT did not
work.

That is unusual if you connected with that machine.
I have had to actually look at the chips to find drivers but Dell has
been a bit better about it.


Oh, Dell has stopped supply replacement CDs with the OS and drivers. Now
it ships a USB recovery plug in, for which it charges $40.

Interesting but I understand it when I saw the bloated size of a W/7
system. W/XP comes on a single CD.