I've been helping a friend resurrect a Dimension 5100 desktop. All ran well for a short while post-resurrection, but then the PSU apparently gave up. I've checked the voltages on the mobo and optical drive power connectors but didn't find anything there. The main board connector was doing that...

Also, I see another partition called FAT- I don't see that listed in My Computer, but it was found and listed by Acronis backup software- so I backed that up too, but I have no clue what that's about. It's very small. Joe "Joe" wrote in message news:... I have a Dimension...

I have been thinking of getting a M6600 elephant of a laptop with the high gamut screen option. However every configuration page for the M6600 has a bug --- if one selects the high gamut screen, a conflict with the microphone shows up, and one cannot deselect the microphone. I reported the bug 11...

My Cosita is a 12 pound combative , tough dog... and she refuses to let me groom her. She looks like a rag doll, just buried in knots. I have no one to holdher, and I don't want to stress her. She's curling her lips in anger at me when I try. Suggestons please???

In an XPS 9000/435t, is it possible to use the FlexBay slots to mount standard SATA hard drives? The FlexBay slots are meant for special hot-swappable USB hard drives, but is it possible to mount a standard 3 1/2" SATA hard drive (or two) in them? I know I'd have to add a SATA port card to...

Hello, Looking for the part numbers for the JBL speaker system for the L502X XPS (15"). I can find a few here and there online, but those are pulls from parted out systems and probably no better than what I already have. Short of root canal from calling Dell does anyone have some...

After recently adding memory to my Studio XPS 8100 - which now has 12GB of matched, Crucial modules - I decided to run Memtest86+ just to see how things are going. There were no problems with my memory (no surprise) but Memtest was kind enough to tell me that the latency (CAS) of my RAM is...

Don't know what's going on here. Talked to Dell support and they put me in a "rebooting" category, which is not my problem. I have a Dell Optiplex 755, 4GB ram, intel core 2 duo processor E6550 @ 233GHx. Running Windows7 Ultimate x64. This computer boots up on it's own. For awhile, it would...

Is there any version of the XPS 8300 that will support the high end six-core versions of the i7 processor? -- W

I'm thinking of adding RAM to my Studio XPS 8100 desktop. I'd like to buy a pair of 4GB sticks. Crucial sells two otherwise identical models except that one is listed as 1.35 volts and the other is 1.5 volts. Both the same price. How do I choose between different voltages? Or should I simply...

I have a pair of Dell NPS-350BB 350W Hot Swapable Power Supplies. These are good working pulls from a Dell PowerEdge 1500SC Server. They are Dell Part Number 04G856 (aka 4G856). If interested, you can have one for the cost of packing and shiping. Weigh about 6 lbs each.

I decided to expedite the process of cleaning my wireless keyboard by running warm tap water over the keys. Everything worked well for a few hours, but now there are certain keys that no longer register when I press them (mostly in the second row of letters.) Did I damage my keyboard by running...

I thought I would pass along a tip I found elsewhere about installing XP on an Optiplex 755, which I am doing for one of the local financially challenged entities. I started up my trusty XP Pro SP3 CD, and, crunch, the system ground to a halt with nothing on the screen after the usual Boot from CD...

Got hold of my daughter's laptop. She had xp on it but it ran so slow it wasn't worth trying to fix so I decided to install win 7 ult 32bit on it. It's running now with win 7 but in the device manager, all is ok except for "Other Devices" and that lists three line items within it described as...

I have a 5 1/2 year old Dell Latitude D820 laptop computer and it came with a Windows XP CD. My two year old Gateway desktop did NOT. A recovery partition only. Which I REALLY hate since I want a Windows CD to be able to wipe the entire hard drive clean and install Windows myself. Now I am in...

My adult daughter asked me (well sorta) what is good hardware / software for sound editing for non-professionals (mixing, etc..). She has this idea of setting up a sound studio for herself. She didn't say a thing about video but lets "assume" that's included. She told me she likes Macs better...

How easy is it to replace a keyboard in an Inspiron 1720? TIA Brian

Just saw this ad on a post in the online version of PCmag. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2396501,00.asp It boasts of, among other things, a 3 gig Geforce GT 555M graphics and a two 500 gig harddrives. That is a lot of heat generating components packed into a small space. But all that is...

I noticed on my sister in law's pc that it doesn't keep the time. I recall checking it 2 or 3 times after resetting the time minutes before and it was wrong again. Is this the battery acting up? Anyone know the type battery in it?

Ancient old 4500S sitting under a desk doing its job for lots of years. Has not been opened or had anyone fiddling or changing things. I would really like to not have to remember all the things it would take to configure a replacement right now. But it started failing, hanging, crashing, sometimes...