Does not work anymore.

Hi and welcome to Fixya1

To reset the machine back to the factory settings, just follow these steps:

1. • 1 Shutdown your machine and make sure that the charger is plugged in before doing the reset. Turn on the machine.
     
   • 2 Press the blue Access IBM button on your ThinkPad keyboard at the screen prompt. The screen prompt reads "To interrupt normal startup, press the blue Access IBM button." This interrupts the Windows reboot process.
     
   • 3 Double click "Recover to Factory Contents" at the Access IBM predesktop menu.
     
   • 4 Follow the recovery wizard prompts to initiate the factory restoration process. Your ThinkPad will automatically reboot upon completion.
     

Hope this helps!

Takasashi

pahle system restore karo.......?and than

You did not mention what type of system or motherboard you have, however it sounds like a hardware malfunction or incompatibilty problem. Change the cmos battery, then Try another memory

Do a system restore to the point just before installing the driver. I don't have XP anymore, but if you search, you will find the system restore utility. It's in Administrative tools somewhere.
1.
Click Start, then click on All Programs, then click on Accessories, click on System Tools, and then click System Restore.
2.
On the Welcome screen, click Restore my computer to an earlier time, and then click next.
3.
On the Select a Restore Point page, select the date from the calendar that shows the point you'd like to restore to, as shown in Figure 2, (in your case, the place where the soundcard driver was installed) and then click Next.

Figure 2
4.
On the Confirm Restore Point Selection page, verify that the correct restore point is chosen, and then close any open programs.
5.
Click Next if you are ready to proceed or click Back to change the restore point.
6.
The computer will shut down automatically and reboot. On reboot, you'll see the Restoration Complete page, and then click OK. Do not do anything while it is running this process, do not shut it down yourself, or restart, it will do it itself.

After seeing the results, you can either choose another restore point, or you can undo the restore you just did. Just open System Restore and make the appropriate choice. After you use System Restore, you will see an additional task, Undo my last restoration, on the system restore welcome page. Remember that you'll have to reinstall any programs that were installed after the restore point.
If System Restore doesn't work in Normal Mode, it may work in Safe Mode, or, if you have to, if windows will not boot up, you can run it with a windows disk also. To use System Restore in Safe Mode, press the F8 key during reboot and choose Safe Mode. When your computer starts in either Safe Mode or Normal Mode, System Restore can be used to capture a working previous state.

To use PC Restore:

1. Turn on the Computer. During the boot process, a blue bar with www.dell.com appears at the top of the screen.

2. Immediately upon seeing the blue bar, press <Ctrl><F11>. If you do not press <Ctrl><F11> in time, let the Computer finish restarting, and then restart the Computer again.

NOTICE: If you do not want to proceed with PC Restore, click Reboot in the following step.

3. On the next screen that appears, click Restore.

4. On the next screen, click Confirm. The restore process takes approximately 6–10 minutes to complete.

5. When prompted, click Finish to reboot the Computer.

NOTE: Do not manually shut down the Computer. Click Finish and let the Computer completely reboot.

6. When prompted, click Yes.

The Computer restarts. Because the Computer is restored to its original operating state, the screens that appear, such as the End User License Agreement, are the same ones that appeared the first time the Computer was turned on.

7. Click Next. The System Restore screen appears and the Computer restarts.

8. After the Computer restarts, click OK.


Good Luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When you turn on your laptop keep pressing the F8 key to get to a boot menu, then choose safe mode and see if you can get into windows that way. If you can get into windows then go into the system tools folder and choose system restore and choose a date the last time you didn't get the blue screen of death and let the sysem reboot and see if you can get back into windows.

If you can't get into safe mode and your still getting the blue screen of death, then that means you have corrupt system files and you'll need to restore your laptop back to factory defaults with your cds if you have them.

you may have a new device that is bringing up this blue screen. start your system on safe mode and uninstall any hardware of software you have installed recently or use the system restore to revert your windows to an earlier date prior to the this problem. but remember that system restore works only when you have a major restore point or you have created a restore point in the past. if this fails, you may want to repair your windows installation by reinstalling it and choosing repair option. Cheers!

you need to reload/restore your Operating system

hi...some times norton uninstallations create this problem, in which norton also uninstalls some system file like virtual driver file, etc.! u can try these things :

1. use systen restore to restore ur previous settings

2. IF it don't works, reinstall window !

let me know if it helps....

Interrupting a restore is bad, very bad, but I guess you figured that out. At this point, you're going to need to start by doing a bios flash. Use another machine to download the system bios from Dell's support site and create a bootable disc. There should be a section for creating a bootable disc in the downloads. Run the disc in your machine, then do a system repair with your recovery or operating system disc. This will cure the glitch that was created during the restore interruption.