HELP, with dell 1100 dimension ,mobodrives ,what brand etc?

gamer

I have to do reinstall winxp, on dell dimension pc,moel, 1100 ,bought 6weeks ago,intel 128integrated graphics, cpu is pentium 4 , 2.80 ghz.DOES anyone know, what drivers i would need for motherboard, are the via4in 1. ie what is the brand of the motherboard ,,eg kt300 , do i need sata drivers or anything like that.winxp not loading at present.
CAN i just download them from dell .ie,

petes

Did you get system restore disk with it? What error message are you getting?

irlrobins

Dell usually have a image on a hidden partition on the hard drive. Prob easier to use that to reinstall WinXP.

Read the manual to find out what your options are:

http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim1100/en/OM/om_en.pdf

maidhc

It has an IDE drive and an intel chipset AFAIK. It looks to me like the Dimension 4600 (same FSB, memory, case) but less an AGP slot (and possibly without SATA, not sure...)

It should *just work*.

irlrobins

yea this is true. No special drivers needed for windows install. Any drivers for video, sound etc can be installed post windows install.

gamer

All i know is windows , is not loading, its 70 miles away, relative .s pc.i wanna download, the mobo drivers,before i travel that distance, the restore disk is gone ,cAnnot be found, SO i need the motherboard info, model no ,is it VIA 4IN 1 /compatible, i think it has intel extreme graphics.i wanna download em,today,or tommorow, cos there is no broadband installed, at pc,s location.

irlrobins

no motherboard drivers needed. All other drivers (video/audio) are available here

gamer

Thanks very much,for all the help,i,m downloading all, the drivers,now, what does restore do? From the HD hidden,partition,does it restore windowsxp, without any applications, ie am i gonna have to reinstall msWord etc,what is on the dell restore cdrom , is it just the system drivers, modem,graphics intel drivers drivers,etc.i take ,it i could just install winxp from a standard cdrom, even if i had no drivers.
i mean cud i use winxp, without installing the drivers.

irlrobins

restore from HD puts the machine back in the exact same condition it was in when it left the factory. So all the drivers, Works, etc will be on. It will however completely delete any data or files created by the user since they got the PC.

gamer

thanks ,ill use the restore function, theres no important,data,on it,just a few game demos.

gamer

its easier to use restore,there no significant data on,this pc.