Restoring XPS M1730 to factory settings?

Hey guys, i've had my xps for a few years and need some advice

I just purchased a new PC as my XPS is getting old and the mainboard is a bit faulty in that it gets far too heated too quickly and I can only run one graphics card at a time

anyway, ive had it for so long ive switched to so many different OS's that i've lost all the initial factory settings and I want to give it to a family member as if it were new

what i mean by factory settings are the little blue info panel at the top right of the keyboard etc, all that displays now is XPS and none of the buttons work, I think I lost these when going back to windows XP

I also believe Dell had a partion on the HD to restore these settings which I have removed

The funny thing is all disgnostic tests come back normal but the XPS is running far too hot and if I turn on dual SLI the fans are running constantly and the laptop is even too hot to touch at some parts

thanks for the help

 

Hit f8 during boot, and do a factory restore.

EDIT: Saw that you removed the recovery partition.

Well, you need to clean install and find all the drivers. Win 7 does a good job of it.