The system has 3 slots, and 1 is occupied by a 128MB 9-chip single sided DIMM, so it has ECC but is apparently unbuffered. I want to bring it up to 512MB, or 640MB if possible. The Dell website has 2 RAM options listed for the GX1 -- 1 ECC registered and 1 non-ECC unbuffered. This seems strange...

Just bought one and have some questions for you

My computer literate friend says that very very soon 3.5 inch floppy drives will not be an option on new desktop PC's. That a purchaser will no longer be able to buy a PC with a floppy drive. Any validity to his opinion? Lee Carkenord

Richard's report below could have been written by my daughter about her Dell, aside from the "10 frustrating days." Her simple fix took Dell 55 frustrating days, and we discovered the big mistake was buying Dell. Your mileage will vary. Most do. But here is ours. My daughter's Dell desktop was 5...

I've been looking at the new Dimension, in particular the 5100c and 9100 Pentium D machines. (The 5100c is only offered with Pentium D at the small business section.) I understand these machines use the new BTX cases. Has anybody had any real-world experience with one of these? Are the noise levels...

Considering a clean install of XP MCE on a new 300gb SATA. Not a lot in the way of games and stuff, but a fairly large collection of mp3's, and lots of photo files to use with Photoshop. What do you folks think of the following plan for formatting the drive: 20GB for XP C: 5GB dedicated swap...

I'm really thinking Dell desktop instead of building, maybe a laptop even. My question is, has anyone gotten a new Dell and just reformated the thing instead of going through all the garbage, trying to delete or figure out what to disable? Can you give me some opinions on this? A while back a...

One of the "critical updates" is IE 7.0. So far, I've avoided it (I am just used to IE 6.xx and I've had no problems). So, what's the scoop? I haven't read of too many problems on THIS newsgroup, so...: 1) Does the installation go pretty smoothly.

Hey everyone, I am a newbie now getting into the pc repair area so please go easy. I have 2 old Dimension XPS which I am trying to make 1 out of the 2, when I boot up 1 of them, I don't get anything on the monitor and there aren't any beeps present. Any ideas what I should do from here please?...

Maybe Dell should reconsider massive move to India. Henry Ford, a true industrial leader, paid his workers well to enable them to buy his product. A generation later many industrial leaders have forgotten, or ignored this example of...

Does anyone know how to get real, English speaking knowledgeable tech support from Dell? Is there a secret phone number somewhere? Is their only tech support grad school drop-outs in India? I cannot believe this company is still in business with the worse than nothing "tech support"...

Want to know who is responsible for the slide in Dell's service? It's us, the customer. Dell is driven, like any other corporation by profit. How many customers really are willing to pay the difference in price for better tech support? Consider that number versus those who would buy Brand X if...

I went to install a customer's brand new Dell computer. I called my boss to let him know I was there. He told me that I would be denied payment for the installation because Dell had cancelled the call. Their reason? Because the customer called them and cancelled it. I had already driven 20...

I think I know XP fairly well. (probably installed 100 systems or so). Just got 2 Dell 9100 systems for my kids and added them to my existing home workgroup. For some stupid reason both systems can't browse the existing workgroup and connect to shared printers. I have a few other systems on the...

I just ordered an e1505, it should be here this Wednesday (5/24). I have been doing a bit of research on how to best deal with the "bloatware." I ordered Media Center OS and the OS install disk. Should I simply reinstall the operating system? Will I run into to driver issues if I do this? I...

I'm having a problem with my widescreen monitor on this computer. When I plug it in using VGA, I configure it as 1920x1200. The stupid video card outputs 1600x1200 and scrolls 1920x1200 within it. I have the proper monitor driver configured. If I connect the same monitor to the same computer...

Compu USA has the Iomega USB 2.0 250G 7200 RPM hard-drives on sale for $149 with $50 mail-in rebate.

Not sure if this is the right newsgroup to post this question, but since I just bought my Dell computer and have posted a couple of other questions with very good results, thought I would try here. I have had my Dimension 8400 for about eight weeks and would like to Partition the hard drive....

In the new house, I planned on installing my server machines in my walk-in closet. It's wired for network and cable and is working great, except...... You could roast a turkey in the room. It's also overheating the entire master bedroom. Oops. Guess I didn't think about that.

Got my Latitude (D810). The HD was a Samsung. Went with the SXGA screen. Thanks to the people in the group for answering my screen and other questions. I got what I wanted. Now a few more questions! The Device Manager identifies the CD as "TSSTcorp CDRW/DVD TSL462c". Anyone knows this brand? When...