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Hpro · 02-06-2002, 05:05 AM

Machine Laptop Inspiron 3200 - of Dell computer - customer was fed up with XP and liked to have Win98SE installed - ok no problem - but also no restore disk

Anyway easy task easy money - hehe cheated again on me - Fdisk - Format Setup - just to miss about just all the drivers - but thanks to Floppyman and of course GLC - I found them on the 100to click time Dell website and downloaded them - installed and OH everything smooth neat and clean - restarted after the sound drivers (Crystal onboard sound) had been installed just to find out the computer would hang itself when entering Explorer - meaning Desktop..
I tried to get this working but it just wouldn't work - again looked around for drivers but there wasn't any other drivers available to Download - but he diagnotics utility instead - Ok made the requested floppy disk inserted it waited for almost 2 hours just to find out that there were no problems on that computer from hard ware.. - REINSTALL windows - and the same again - Now I got upset - FDISK FORMAT Setup again and still it wouldn't stop to hang - consulted GLC on the #pc-mech IRC channel this late afternoon and we checked everything there and it still would hang - then I had a thought - copied all the cab files to the hard drive - sayd goodbye to GLC - he had to be up to I gues almost 3 am and then deleted the ENUM FOLDER complete - restarted used the Add new Hardware wizard to detect the hardware again and installed all the drivers as it was asked by the wizard = restarted and SEE It works beautiful..! no more hangs..

This just to prove again that sometimes even you install on a CLEAN HARD DRIVE from the CDROM some of the files may not being copied correctly which of course then brings up problems - so if anyone has problems like this - then do not hesitate - delete the enum key in the registry - copy the cab's to the hard drive and use the add hardware wizard - and I'm sure most of the problems are or can be solved..

hope this helps to make computing easier for anyone out there who has problems..
Thanks for reading..

02-06-2002, 05:05 AM	#30
Hpro Power in the Box-P4 XEON! Join Date: May 2001 Location: Europe >Swiss Posts: 3,014	The Enum trick did it.. Machine Laptop Inspiron 3200 - of Dell computer - customer was fed up with XP and liked to have Win98SE installed - ok no problem - but also no restore disk Anyway easy task easy money - hehe cheated again on me - Fdisk - Format Setup - just to miss about just all the drivers - but thanks to Floppyman and of course GLC - I found them on the 100to click time Dell website and downloaded them - installed and OH everything smooth neat and clean - restarted after the sound drivers (Crystal onboard sound) had been installed just to find out the computer would hang itself when entering Explorer - meaning Desktop.. I tried to get this working but it just wouldn't work - again looked around for drivers but there wasn't any other drivers available to Download - but he diagnotics utility instead - Ok made the requested floppy disk inserted it waited for almost 2 hours just to find out that there were no problems on that computer from hard ware.. - REINSTALL windows - and the same again - Now I got upset - FDISK FORMAT Setup again and still it wouldn't stop to hang - consulted GLC on the #pc-mech IRC channel this late afternoon and we checked everything there and it still would hang - then I had a thought - copied all the cab files to the hard drive - sayd goodbye to GLC - he had to be up to I gues almost 3 am and then deleted the ENUM FOLDER complete - restarted used the Add new Hardware wizard to detect the hardware again and installed all the drivers as it was asked by the wizard = restarted and SEE It works beautiful..! no more hangs.. This just to prove again that sometimes even you install on a CLEAN HARD DRIVE from the CDROM some of the files may not being copied correctly which of course then brings up problems - so if anyone has problems like this - then do not hesitate - delete the enum key in the registry - copy the cab's to the hard drive and use the add hardware wizard - and I'm sure most of the problems are or can be solved.. hope this helps to make computing easier for anyone out there who has problems.. Thanks for reading.. __________________ It's not as hard to do as you may think...It's just that you try.!And I'm still trying..! The Machine: i7 920CPU @ 2.66 Hypertreading / Asus P6T / 12GB DDR3 Ram 1366 / 3 x Sata 160GB Hot Swap / 1x Sata 160GB / 2 x Sata 300 GB / Plextor DVD 800 SATA / Plextor CDRW IDE / Audigy Sound Blaster 24 Bit / ASUS Nvidia ENGT 240/ Chieftec Full Tower / PSU Chieftec 600 Watt / Win7 x64 Ultimate MAPS Last edited by Hpro; 02-06-2002 at 05:07 AM.