shanenin Posted September 7, 2005 Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 (edited) I got this old dell smartstep 100d. I was hoping to find drivers on the dell sight. when ever I search for that computer I am refered to a phone number that gives me a recording that says I have to pay $25 to talk to someone. As for as I can telll drivers are not available(without paying a fee). Any help would be appreciated.edit added later//after some googling, it apears it may use the sames chipsets as the dimension 2100 line. I wonder if those drivers will work. Edited September 7, 2005 by shanenin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted September 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 another question. The computer originally got shipped with 98 se(according to the coa) It currently has xp on it. I am assuming the xp is an upgrage for the following reasons: all of the orignal software is on the computer, plus it was still formatted fat32. If I use the xp key that was pulled out using belarc adviser, will this only work with a xp upgrade cd? I only have an oem sp1 and an oem sp2 cd. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted September 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 i guess I overthought the whole thing. Windows millenium edition found all of the drivers except the network card. Sound, video, and modem drivers all work. Unlike Xp I did not think windows 98(millenium) came with much for drivers already on the disk.My yellow page add for my computer service company goes into the phone book in february, I still have a lot to learn :-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bearskin Posted September 7, 2005 Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 that's ONE of the big differences between win98 and winme....winme has a lot of generic drivers and better web support...other than that they are pretty much the same os. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted September 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 (edited) I remember getting into the bios the first time by tapping f1 thru f4 during boot up. Now I am not able to geti into the bios, I have tried all of the button f1 thru f4, individulaly; none of them work. Any suggestions?edit added later//it is the delete key, I honestly belived using the f(something key) the first time. Edited September 7, 2005 by shanenin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bearz Posted September 19, 2005 Report Share Posted September 19, 2005 another question. The computer originally got shipped with 98 se(according to the coa) It currently has xp on it. I am assuming the xp is an upgrage for the following reasons: all of the orignal software is on the computer, plus it was still formatted fat32. If I use the xp key that was pulled out using belarc adviser, will this only work with a xp upgrade cd? I only have an oem sp1 and an oem sp2 cd.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Did you find a place to order the restore disk(OEM sp 1,2,3)? If you did I would appreciate any info... I contacted Dell for these disk and the women laughed and said we never made anything called Smartstep... Thanks,Bearz Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted September 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2005 No I had an unused copy of meillenium laying around, so I used that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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