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As for your issue....Dell sends out the full os with their computers but if you just try to install it on a new dell when they don't make xp drivers for their newer systems anymore..

Well you weren't gonna get that to work regardless.

I'm talking about the proprieitary stuff in dells, dell uses not proprietary stuff too but you need their drivers in order to make it work with the proprietary. 

They told me to keep the XP and drivers disk from the first CPU unit.  So installing XP on the new CPU was possible and did eventually happen...but then 7 hours later the graphic card blew up...and 2 days after that I called Dell and told them I was returning their crummy computer.

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