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Question posted by Anonymous-57925 on April 29th, 2012

How To Remove The Drivers Before Reinstalling It

i have put my ocmputer in factory settings uisng the reinstalation cd however there was a separate resource cd for drivers and diagnostics; diagnostics said ALL PASS but the drivers installation is very complex; it has to be done in a particular order;hence many of the drivers are not working; now i want to uninsatll it before reinstalling it i hope i wont have to reinstall the operating system again i have a separate sony vaio laptop; putting it in factory settings is so easy; just run one cd and its does the job why dell is so complex? Even on their website for drivers and downloads it not giving the drivers for me to download; The resource CD they give is so complex; all drivers will not get downloaded in one go; you have to do it one by one and in a particular order?

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Owner's Manual - Page 1

Dell™ Dimension™ E520 Service Tag Owner's Manual cover latch release CD or DVD eject button CD or DVD activity light FlexBay for optional floppy drive or Media Card Reader microphone connector headphone connector diagnostic lights hard-drive activity light power button/ power activity light USB 2.0 connectors (2) power connector network adapter Model DCSM sound connectors...

Owner's Manual - Page 5

... Lights 47 Dell Diagnostics 50 Dell Diagnostics Main Menu 50 Drivers 51 What Is a Driver 51 Identifying Drivers 52 Reinstalling Drivers 52 Resolving Software and Hardware Incompatibilities 53 Restoring Your Operating System 53 Using Microsoft Windows XP System Restore 54 Using Dell PC Restore by Symantec 55 Using the Operating System CD 57 4 Removing and Installing Parts 59 Before...

Owner's Manual - Page 10

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Owner's Manual - Page 35

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Owner's Manual - Page 37

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Owner's Manual - Page 40

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Owner's Manual - Page 41

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Owner's Manual - Page 44

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Owner's Manual - Page 47

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Owner's Manual - Page 48

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Owner's Manual - Page 49

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Owner's Manual - Page 52

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Owner's Manual - Page 53

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Owner's Manual - Page 55

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Owner's Manual - Page 57

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Owner's Manual - Page 70

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Owner's Manual - Page 78

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Owner's Manual - Page 124

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Owner's Manual - Page 149

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