Maybe someone has a clue to where I should look. A Dimension 4600 (p4 2.4 GHz w 2G RAM) seems to pause (only the mouse motion is responsive. No clicks accepted) for 15-30 seconds. No disk activity light. If playing a MP3, there seems to be a small interruption (not the full time of the...

Taking a look at my options since my XPS M1330 died, I see these Dell ultrabooks: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-l321x-mlk/pd So how does one install software if the software comes on a CD or DVD? Is there a way to transfer digitally managed software (e.g. Windows, Visual Studio,...

Our research dept (that's me) has turned up another cool tool. Truly cool. Truly-truly. It's the MSI AfterBurner, and it's from the same MSI that makes motherboards with exploding caps and graphics cards that die young. http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm It allows you to control...

I have a Precision 390 workstation using the Intel RAID for the SATA boot device. Is it safe to use the Intel software RAID with SSD drives? I have Windows XP installed. If the RAID is constantly doing background testing and writing to the drive, I assume that could create problems for an SSD,...

Would like to get some new or used laptop for running Win 7 - Have a couple of Dell C610 laptops around the house that we use and love - with all the modular bay swap capabilities. All are running XP/SP3 - Mostly just run IE and Firefox, Outlook Express, Office, Quicken & Turbotax I've been...

I recently put 64-bit Ubuntu 13.04 and 64-bit Win7 Pro on my Dell M1330 laptop, and adding Ubuntu 13.04 as a dual-boot to Windows 7 is easy. You don't need 3rd-party software, or an optical disk to hold the installation files, or a permanent shared partition between the two OSes, or toss out...

On startup, a Dell Zino HD model 410 complains that the video fan is dead. I downloaded the service manual, but no where in there do I see a schematic of a video fan or instructions on how to replace this. I see a system fan only. Where is the video fan located? -- W

I've run into a snag activating Dell's OEM 64-bit Win7 Pro on my Dell XPS M1330 laptop that came with 32-bit Vista installed. The M1330 actually has a 64-bit architecture, so I've gotten 64-bit Win7 and 64-bit Ubuntu to install properly, but I can't activate the Win7. The activation dialog just...

Dell catalog arrived in the mail yesterday. Lots of computers with Windows 7, a few with Windows 8 and touchscreens. Finally, Michael has stopped drinking the Microsoft Windows 8 kool-aid. Or maybe he looks at Lenovo's rising market share, as they have pushed Windows 7... Ben Myers

Hello everyone, I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop that I'm looking to sell. It came loaded with Windows Vista when I 1st bought it but I soon upgraded to Windows 7 Preferred. I still have the Windows 7 Preferred upgrade DVD but cannot seem to find the Windows Vista reinstall DVD that came with the...

W7 Home. I turned off defrag scheduling as I prefer to do it when I choose. Laptop is running reasonably speedy but when I do the analysis it says 10% fragmented files. Is there a rule of thumb. Should I defrag? I use W7 Home Mel

I recently got a salvaged Dell for nix (knowing an IT person is very convenient) and added 3 Gigs of RAM, 320Gig HDD, and W7 32-bit. Runs very nicely. The only minor hassle was the audio driver. The things I added were from a dead Gateway (bad M/B) that I got from a friend (I gave her an old Dell...

The text displayed on my monitor has begun to show this "colorful" corruption: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8263/8663200237_a5bffa10a6_k_d.jpg It has increased in size (of the areas covered) and frequency of occurrance. It corrupts text in horizontal bands (the fullwidth of the screen) and does...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/business/dells-earnings-fall-79-as-sales-of-pcs-fade.html?_r=0 My next PC might have to be a homebrewed. *TimDaniels*

OK, I need some advice. I currently have an old Dell Dimension 2400 desktop in the basement. It is connected to a Linksys Cable Modem and Linksys router. I have had a parallel printer (Epson Color Stylus 600) connected to the desktop and it has been a horse. I have 4 laptops upstairs. The two...

Well I have been running this box for a while with Win-8. So far my impressions are that it is a good OS for NEW computer users who didn't start out with any earlier OS. It will run most older programs as long as they don't require custom hardware supporting them. My ancient HP 970 prints just...

I've been reading about the 100MB System Reserved Partition (SRP) that the Win7 installation disk makes that contains the boot files. But on my Dell Precision T3500 workstation that has Win7 Pro 64-bit pre-installed, there is one 39MB mystery "OEM Partition" and a 750MB NTFS Recovery partition...

Just an aside. I took an old Dell and put Mint on it (the easiest version of Linux) and it breathed new life into the old Dell.

Hello, I've installed a Perc 4DC on a non dell workstation with windows 7. I have no issues with the drivers (used the 2003 ones), but I'm not sure what kind of disk management tool I could and should install. By example, would Dell Array Manager am360a05 cause issues if installed on windows 7...