For a notebook what is the difference between the Mobile Intel Pentium 4 Processor - M @ 2.6 and the Mobile Intel Pentium 4 Processor@ 3.06. The latter has a 533 MHz bus, but Dell features the M processor on the higher end 8500 but isn't it slower?

Hi! Anyone have this wallpaper i lost, my dell crash last night. Thanks!!!

Just thought I'd see if anyone else out there has run into a problem with XP Pro on the Inspiron 1100. I'm also going to trash Dell's tech support a little, so if that bothers you don't read this. I've included the solution here, but didn't tell Dell yet (I'll wait and see if they call back). We...

I just received an Inspiron 600M today, and am disappointed with the performance, on usual tasks such as just booting MS Word. My Inspiron 4100 w 1.2ghz PIII-M processor and 1G RAM opens Word, Excel, ... whatever ... lightning fast. The same programs on the new 600M, however, take a lot longer to...

Hello everyone, I have an Inspiron 8100 and I have currently a HD of 20 GB. I will get soon a new additional HD of 20 GB that i can put instead of the floppy disk. On the first HD i have a partition with WIN XP and a partition with Mandrake 9.1. As i have at the moment some problems with my Win...

I just purchased a Dell 4600 and upgraded to the E171FPb flat panel display. The display looks great except that the top of the screen is somewhat dimmer than the bottom of the screen. I've tried all different angles and heights, and still the top of the screen is (slightly) darker than the...

Have you run the memory diagnostics? Sounds like you might have a bad DIMM and SP1 tests it. Tom "Jeff Berk" wrote in message ... I'm running a 1 1/2 yr. old 4400 with XP Home. Every time I try to update to SP1 or now SP1a, The computer...

In this unfortunate world I have a friend who has kindly locked the bios on my Laptop. How would I go about resetting the password / Bios so I can boot my machine once more. Thanks in advance

On Saturday June 7 while I was on my computer we had a sudden hard rain. I went to the back door to look out and see how much rain was falling. I just got to the open door and was looking outside when lightning struck the middle palm tree in a big ball of fire. It practically skinned the...

I am selling my Inspiron 5000 soon, and intend to wipe the HDD with a high strength file shredder, and then re-install the software to "as delivered". I have read posts in this group where people say they routinely wipe the HDD clean and re-install on their new PC's in order to get better...

I've recently upgraded the hard drive on my Dell Inspiron 8200. How do I rebuild the diagnostic partition that was on the original drive? I know It's not so important, and the diagnostics are on the provided CD, but I'm really curious about this... On the Dell website, I've not find any answer to...

Who makes Dell's true Mobil Wireless Router? Is the wireless card it compatible with all standards - a,b,g?

What is the difference between the two displays on the 8500. Why would i want one over the other? Needs are alot of text, medium graphics, internet browsing & streaming video, medium gaming. Is the wide aspect display that good?

I just purchased a Dell Dimension 8300 with a 2.6 GB processor. Holy cow, it gets pretty loud at times. I already phoned Dell and they immediately came to my house replaced the processor fan and motor, but the same thing is happening with the replacement. I previously had a Dell Dimension (with...

reads like you've already decided "j carter" wrote in message ... Posting this question here is probably like asking the cat to guard the goldfish bowl, but here goes. I'm having a hard time deciding between a new Gateway 700X...

I have a Dell Poweredge 6300 that boots and display's info on the monitor. It starts off with the BIOS, and then it says press F2 to enter the Setup (BIOS). I hit F2, and it says entering Setup. It then continues to do the memory test, and passed the memory test for the amount of memory I have (2...

Well, I guess this is one of the sillier questions. Can an optical mouse be safely used on an Inspiron 2650? Thanks

Dell says the PCI bus on the Dimension XPS-R series is 33KB/sec. The slowest PCI adaptor that Promise makes is for a 66KB/sec bus. Does that mean that the XPS-Rs are SOL for upgrading to today's ATA/133 hard drives? =Roddy=

David, The 8300 sounds like a lot more PC than you need. For surfing the net, Internet phone, etc., save yourself a lot of cash and go with a 2350 or maybe a 4600. I have a 4550 and run Photoshop, capture and burn DVD videos and movies, etc. and it's more than up to the job. Just my opinion. FYI,...

I have re-flashed my dell xpsb 1000 P3 bios and now I get a checksum error comming up and the bios stops. Any ideas how I may be able to sort this problem out as I cannot get it to boot up so I can re-flash it with a good version. Thanks Allan