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Dimension 9150 Questions
I'm looking at a Dimension 9150 desktop and have a couple of questions. The system docs say it has 1-PCIe x16 video slot, 3-PCI slots, 1-PCIe x1 and...
Red Lights On NIC Card and Monitor Screwed Up After Power Outage
Yesterday there was a power outage. When I got home, after I noticed that the power was off...
Dell Dimension 2350 behaving oddly, loosing devices
Hi, I have a dimension 2350 which I have had for around 4 years. Disk drives have...
Dim 4500 XP Home Reinstall Questions
I took some advice from folks here and just did a clean reinstall of XPSP1 Home on a Dimension 4500 and all...
Labreastude CPiA 366XT
Friend of limited means has been given a corporate castoff Labreastude CPiA 366XT (at least that's the model...
Parbreastion Ideas Your Advice, Please 2057
My set up is as follows: C: XP & programs 20 GB (no benefit to separating programs on another parbreastion) D: Data...
Parbreastion Ideas Your Advice, Please 2058
Way too complicated. Multiple parbreastions on a physical drive tend to slow down file access because of head movements on the drive. Much as one might want to, you can't isolate a...
Dell Dimension 2350 behaving oddly, loosing devices 2059
Thanks guys for the continued support. Well today the PC froze when I was trying to access the hard disk driver details (heard a mechanical clunk followed by total lock up, still displaying...
Dell Dimension 2350 behaving oddly, loosing devices 2060
I agree that it sounds like a disk problem. However considering all the advice to be very sound I did the following : 1) Took the side off, removed the...
WGA the most recent phase
Windows Genuine program revised following uproar Microsoft has bowed to public pressure, releasing a version of WGA that no longer validates...
OT WinTV and Beyond TV Setup
According to Tom Scales, a regular here, this is a great single tuner setup using USB2. I bought the whole package direct from www.snapstream.com which...
Off the shelfor out of luck
Hi there. I heard somewhere that Dell uses proprietary parts to build their PCs and that potential system...
what Dell laptop should a power programmer buy
So you want a "power" system, but a budget price? Good luck... In any case, I'd go for a Dell Labreastude 620 or 820. The big difference (AFAIK) is the size of the screen. I'd...
Boot failed at checkpoint Ithr this solution works for me
My Dimension 4700 (P4 2.8 with HT, 1.0 GB RAM, 80 GB SATA HD, Windows XP Home Edition SP2) has been giving me some problems for...
i8600 Slooow to Start
The patient is my daughter's Inspiron 8600, running XP Home. The problem is slow boot up. This began last week. Nothing new has been installed. The Dell splash screen appears and...
Inspiron 6000 fan running full speed even when system idle
Hi, I think the CPU heat sink fins are clogged with dust. Happens on a lot of Dell's (most notoriously the 1100 series' and 5100 series'). Some laptop manufactrers like Toshiba provide...
Dell DimensionTM 9150
I just got mine on Friday, nice system. I bought mine at the Small Business site for $815 including S...
Video Display wMS Flight Sim 9 FS9
I have a Dimension 8400 with a nVidia GeForce 6800 GTO 256MB video card. My computer w-video card was purchased in Dec, 2004. I recently downloaded and installed a new video driver from nVidia...
Dell's Exploding Computer and Other Image Problems
July 10, 2006 Dell's Exploding Computer and Other Image Problems By DAMON DARLIN A Dell notebook computer that burst into flames...
15.4inch laptop WXSGA or WUXGA
If you need to ask, then it would be better to stick with WXSGA+ or maybe an even lower resolution. People who would appreciate the higher resolution know beforehand that that's...
OT WinTVBeyondTV more questions Tom Scales
Tom, I started a new thread since the old one was getting pretty long and I have some...
OT WinTVBeyondTV more questions Tom Scales 2073
See comments inline. MCE does look similar and came out well after BTV. Any thoughts where MS got their ideas? You don't need WinTV or breastanTV. I'd probably leave WinTV, but uninstall breastanTV. I...
OT WinTVBeyondTV more questions Tom Scales 2074
Tom, Thanks as usual for the quick and accurate responses. See comments inline. Snip Looks...
Replacing a drive in a Dell 8400 Desktop
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:58:20 -0500, "Michael Hobbs" Dell stopped distributing support CD's around the same time the cases changed from black plastic to...
Upgrading a Labreastude CPT 600 GT processor Worth it
Thank you for your buttistance. I have posted on the Dell site, but no responses, I also googled and found some stuff but no definitive answers, however.... I will have a go at an...
Dell vs. HP 2077
Personally, I prefer HP for a number of reasons. I like the AMD chips, and...
Dell vs. HP 2078
skyf Can't say anything about recent Dell support, as my Dimension 8100 is 4-5 years old, but I do...
Dell vs. HP 2079
Von Fourche Good, solid, reliable. Mostly. They're obsolete long, long before they die. We recenlly...
Dell vs. HP 2080
Quality of construction and parts: HP - lots of awful cheap plastic. Hard to maintain because of design of the chbuttis. Based mostly on...
Dell vs. HP 2081
Ben Myers Yep, HP has a lot of little tricks they don't tell you about, to get in to thier...
Dual core or single processor 2082
Too much heat? "What the hell difference does that make. What, you mean he would have to get a larger air conditioning unit in his house, or maybe keep putting bags of...
Dual core or single processor 2083
I have a standard P4-3.2Ghz machine with Hyper threading, 2GB RAM, and an 128MB AGP...
Another dual core vs. single query
You didn't read my post correctly. I didn't say that you should buy the latest-greatest computer made. I said that you should...
The onsite tech's thoughts on Dell's warranty performance 2085
This is what happens when penny-pinching accountants manage the parts and logistics process. I had a similar experience with replacement of parts by IBM under warranty. I was the tech...
Norton Ghost 10.0 question regarding disk space
Very bizarre parbreastioning-backup strategy........ I've never heard of anything like it. C: is 3x the size of D:? If I parbreastion a drive, I parbreastion it more like 20-30GB for C: and the...
Dell & Software Support
I've had an ongoing issue (going on months now) with an Inspiron 9300 which, since I got it, has not been able to play 3D...
Dell & Software Support 2088
Thats horsepoo , google the issue you have or your laptops name and read all forum posts you can find about if others with the same laptop have...
Dell & Software Support 2089
Dealing with "support" can be hard at times. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it's a nightmare scenario. A nightmare scenario occurs most often right after I say that I know how to work...
Installing Windows Server 2003 on Dell Dimension 2400
The only card I could find that supported Windows Server 2003 was the D-Link DGE-530T. Interestingly enough, if you accessed the Driver Download service at DLink.com it couldn't find a 2003 driver. However...
Question about hard drive parbreastioning 2091
Efficiency isn't an issue these days. With the performance of hard drives these days, the issue is...
Question about hard drive parbreastioning 2092
i think you're better off parbreastioning it not only for better performance although most users probably wouldn't notice the difference but also for ease and convenience...
Zyxel router for Inspiron 1505
i don't know the zywall 2, but the way it is done in the zywall 5 is this...
Dimension 4600 No Video on Boot
Sorry for the long post. My friend has a 3-year old 4600 (out of warranty) and last week the video started getting garbled, scrolling lines...
Dimension 4600 No Video on Boot
Chris thanks, but of course it does not apply to BB purchases :( Anyway, Ben and you were right on! I installed...
EPP Cost vs. Coupon Cost
Using my EPP (Employee Purchase Program) ID, I can get the following configuration for $829 (add $68 tax and $8 environmental fee, free shipping = $905 delivered). I've been looking at the...
Inspiron HD Failure 2097
Thanks for the quick response, Ben. Looking at the label on the HD, it's labeled with IBM's logo, but says it...
Inspiron HD Failure 2098
Hmmmm, consider this. Think about having any and all of your paper documents (personal letters, business letters, invoices, pictures, music DVD's, bank statements, jokes, and anything-everything else) all stacked haphazardly on...
Inspiron HD Failure 2099
You can do that, but I tend to put a mulbreastude of common folders into a parbreastion. In the F:(Finance) parbreastion...
Dell InspironLabreastudePrecision fan control utility
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:32:06 -0400, "J.S." i'm using speedfan 4.29 (freeware, - according to the speedfan creator only a limited number of dell motherboards from which fan speed can be...
Explanation of error message
I own a new Dell E510 desktop PC, running XP Home SP2, DSL connection. Outlook Express 6 SP2 is my email and newsgroup program, and Firefox 1.5.0.4 is my web browser. I have posted...
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