Inspiron 4100: SW Diagnose or Rebuild?

[Guest]

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I have a 2 year old 1GHz Celeron Inspiron 4100. It has acquired some odd
behaviors that *feel* like they're not going to be easy to fix. (First
launch of a URL from Outlook after a fresh boot takes ~2 minutes to load,
sometimes normal web page loading is extremely slow, sometimes IE just locks
up, Norton is acting a little screwy, etc.).

Should I just wipe the disk and reinstall? I'm generally pretty good about
fixing various issues with my systems. But these issues seem like they
might take a while to diagnose and I'm wondering if people have opinions on
the most time-effective solution. I'm positive these are problems with my
machine and not local network connections. They're almost always fixed, at
least temporarily, with a reboot.

If people recommend a rebuild, is it generally better to do the inital
install with the unit in or out of the docking station? Or does it matter?

Thanks.

Jim

 

[Tony]

Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell (More info?)

Yes.

Re-install.

The time/worry/stress/pain/ it takes to sort out a serious problem, is
almost always less than the time it takes just to re-install.

Spoken from experience.




"Jim Haselmaier" <jim@acceleratedinsightNOSPAM.com> wrote in message
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> I have a 2 year old 1GHz Celeron Inspiron 4100. It has acquired some odd
> behaviors that *feel* like they're not going to be easy to fix. (First
> launch of a URL from Outlook after a fresh boot takes ~2 minutes to load,
> sometimes normal web page loading is extremely slow, sometimes IE just
locks
> up, Norton is acting a little screwy, etc.).
>
> Should I just wipe the disk and reinstall? I'm generally pretty good
about
> fixing various issues with my systems. But these issues seem like they
> might take a while to diagnose and I'm wondering if people have opinions
on
> the most time-effective solution. I'm positive these are problems with my
> machine and not local network connections. They're almost always fixed,
at
> least temporarily, with a reboot.
>
> If people recommend a rebuild, is it generally better to do the inital
> install with the unit in or out of the docking station? Or does it
matter?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
>
>