multiple OP SYS removal problem

[soup]

Up north Canada way, Future Shop 250 GB ComStar external, probably comes with VBTUCopy utility, or at least my 300GB did, $129.99. Ends January 18.

[Chewy]

What exactly is in that space Chewy? My old Dell had roughly the same empty space on the main boot drive. What type of crap do the manufacturers stick in their that most people won't see?? I would have to assume that it only happens when third party companies " manufacture " pc's and load the OS


Dam smooth hijack if I do say so myself ...but related nonetheless

that empty space is usually a boot loader that you use to reload or recover a computer with

they have come up with a lot of screwy things over the past

usually there's a larger hidden partition that contains the actual reinstall files

[jlohojo7]

Chewy heres another one for you. For 2 days in a row now after I had the laptop unplugged from the wall once for 2 hours and another time a few minutes the video driver has failed gives me a dialog box thats says something like reboot and save and then it shrinks down the entire screen to half the size of the actual monitor and the icons and everything gets really fuzzy !! When I reboot its normal but this makes me really really nervous !! what should i do try a different driver, or reinstall it. how do i know that i even have the right one ??

what do i need its an dell (go figure )inspiron 1100
this is the one I currently have.

http://support.us.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R112112&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=146526

[Chewy]

you might just run a driver cleaner and reinstall it

looks like it was added over something else

look in system devices for the agp driver and check date against the latest from dell

[jlohojo7]

i just uninstalled the old driver and reinstalled the same one again. I will see if that works but I am going to check out what you just posted

from what i can tell this is the latest driver that they have at least from the dell website and windows update keeps getting me to install the same one

[Chewy]

windows update keeps getting me to install the same one

that's one thing I will never let MS do again, about 1 in 5 hose your computer,
really screwed up system

[jlohojo7]

you think that could be the reason for all this ??

[Chewy]

very good possibility, try roll back drivers if windows has updated a component that you suspect is screwing up

remember video driver goes hand in hand with the agp chipset driver

[jlohojo7]

thanks chewy once again you are the man !!!
I hope this stays good !!