Me again with more notebook problems, this time trying to set up a wireless network. I happily and fairly easily set up my 2wire wireless router and the notebook was happily networking away. Then the speakers on my desktop starting tapping and getting static. Then the desktop screen went white, then went black and died!!
A call to the wireless router provider said it was the computer maker's problem (of course). The Dell tech said it was the wireless router provider's problem (of course) but he also told me to do a restore (like mentioned above) and said to restore to the wired modem to see if things would work without the wireless. Sure enough, things work when wired but the desktop crashes with the wireless router.