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johnnyboy   12-15-2004 at 05:29:18 AM

So I splurged for an Inspiron 700m, and I love it. But I didn't love all the extra crap Dell likes to install on it, like AOL and their crappy media players. So I reinstall Windows.

Bad idea.

Windows works fine, and my laptop is fine--except for the fact that I no longer have working speakers, and the laptop can apparently no longer pick up my house's wireless signal.

For the speakers, the Control Panel won't even recognize that I have an audio device at all. I don't even know where to begin with the (integrated) wireless stuff. Help?

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tmlim   12-15-2004 at 05:27:32 PM
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I never like the integrated wireless on laptops. Both of the ones I worked on, I got a PC Card for them.

Maybe check the Dell website for drivers on the sound and network.

"A delayed game will eventually come out, a bad game is bad forever."
-Shigeru Miyamoto

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blah   12-17-2004 at 03:36:58 AM
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Do a fool system reload and be foolly happy (in case if it's a software issue).

..this is very useful and helpful place for information...

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folken   12-19-2004 at 06:19:10 AM
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It isn't to hard to clean off the garbage dell puts on there. If you want to make a clean install you will need to download all the dell drivers and utilities to make it work. It might be easier to just clean the dell install though.

Actually the only really bad internal wireless cards are dell wireless cards. If you get a dell choose the intel wireless card. Every other internal wireless I have found owns pcmcia cards. My IBM's antenna is the whole back side of the monitor, lol.

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