Have Dell Studio17 with Windows 7. 500G sata. 4G MEMORY. Problems with supposed virus infection. Friend said he could reload 7 and solve problem. After install to 3rd partition lost windows recovery. Had driver disk, but I'm not familiar with the right ones to install.
Symptoms: Cannot install downloads. Can download them, but they wont install. Says "corrupted file" or some such.
E-mail wont come in easily. Says receiving 1 of ** and is very very slow. 5 e-mails may take 30-45 minutes.
Recommended to try DriverZone. Shows 10 drivers missing but cant download them. Nothing shows up.
I'm at a loss. I have just enough computer knowledge to be dangerous, and I need help.
Thanks JohnCorrupted downloads... Sounds like a RAM issue. Can you boot with only one stick of RAM installed-alternate sticks of RAM until the file download issue is resolved.I will try that. Give me a day to get back on here and I will let you know if it helps find my problem.
Thanks for the quick reply.
JohnWell we gave it a try. Took each individual stick of memory, tried it temporarily in each slot, and no change. Obviosly the laptop ran just a bit slower, but I would probably be the only one who could detect it.
I do know that Dell puts in a recovery program to re-do the entire system (F8 repair),but with this re-install of 7, it seems to be gone. If I could get to that, you would think I could solve all problems. But not there.
Could it be a bad install of drivers? The driver disk is here, but I don't want to stumble my way through it and I may make it worse. A common mistake one might make when reinstalling an OS is ACCIDENTALLY wiping the recovery partition. I have done this before.


Try installing the drivers first. The drivers are meant to help your motherboard communicate PROPERLY with the hardware present. If that doesn't work, I'm thinking it may be the hard drive.Ouch. Hope it's not the Hard drive. It's only a year old. I have heard about problems with the manufacturer. Really was hoping they weren't true.
Is there an order to installing driver's?
I know I have tried to download a couple drivers off of the disk, but when downloading even an 8MB driver, I click on open, and it says 2 hours to download. I was hoping that was normal, but I've been told it shouldn't take that long.
I'll give it a chance and try to download it one more time. I will let you know.
Again, thanks for the patience with this "Newbie".
JohnHere is the list according to Dell.

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kcs/document?c=us&cs=19&docid=268873&l=en&s=dhs

Why not just go to the Dell website and enter in your Service Tag and get the proper drivers for your system?

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=anavmlWell, after reinstall, driver search, and all sorts of help from this site, I have found my problem and solution. It WAS NOT my computer at all. I contacted my service provider, (wireless broadband), and asked them to check their modem, and external antenna.
Their external antenna is bad! They will be here in the morn to change it.
I don't know if I feel embarrassed, happy, or what. But I do know, this is a great site.
So I wish to thank all of you who got on here and tried to help. I know I will be coming here next time I have a problem.
Thanks again to all.
JohnQuote from: Bjohn on October 04, 2011, 07:41:45 PM

Recommended to try DriverZone. Shows 10 drivers missing but cant download them.