I can get a really good deal on Optiplex 780 here at the engineering university I attend. However, besides doing school work on it, would also like the 780 to act as home theater PC. As such it would be nice to have HDMI output on it. Will I need a whole new video and sound card with...

I'm just about to upgrade my Latitude D620's hard drive. Purchased new hard drive (320GB SATAII) and USB 2.5" hard drive enclosure. Can anyone detail (or point me) to a step by step guide to cloning the hard drive so I don't have to spend days reloading everything? Very basically, I understand...

I see that Dell has just released the Dimension 3000. I suppose that is the successor to the 2400?

Have a Dell Inspiron 8000; its hard drive was wiped before it was donated, through a third party, to my ARES unit (we do search-and- rescue communications support plus other emergency functions in the rural area of our rather large county, on own own dime without gov't support). Have the License...

Hi, I have a Latitude C600 and have just had a new motherboard, The bios is A23 and the Service Tag is reset to FIELDxx :( Can i set it to the Service tag on my case? I have the asset program and tried asset /s xxxxxxx (my Service Tag) however it says,

I have an I8600 and recently the weather has been getting hotter and so has my system. I was wondering how hot should it be allowed to run. I tried FANGUI, found here http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/index.html as another user suggested in a different post and it returned that CPU = 55C, GPU = 53C...

Hi, I'm having trouble w/my new WD MyBook Essential 250. After I bought it approx. 3 weeks ago I created 2 NTFS partitions. On one of the partitions I created 2 folders, "video" & "Audio". two nights ago I'd started to download 3 torrents from Dimeadozen.org. For 2 of the torrents I created...

Hi all, I am looking to fit an additional hard drive to a Dimention 4600 approx. 18months old. Before i start opening the case up (a question of bone idleness on my part lol!!!) does anyone know what type of drive it is? The only specs i can find say its a DMA/ATA-100 (Ultra) Surely they were...

Why doesn't my Dell have a service tag? it's not on the bottom and when I used the dell system scan utility....zero. Alice

OK...went to use my aging Dim 4100 after my son had been visiting. Went online (dialup). I. Explorer froze and I tried restart, but then rundll32 wouldn't end task and I ended up having to hit the Reset button. Left the room and came back a minute later and here's the screen, black with...

How can I open eartlink eml type attachments

Just got the Inspiron 600M and need a case...suggestions welcome!

Hello all, In our small office (6 users) we have an unused Dell Win XP box with MS Office 2003 installed on it (probably installed by Dell). I want to uninstall MS Office 2003 from this unused machine and install it on my computer that has MS Office XP installed on it. If Office is installed by...

Greetings, I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 running Windows XP Home with SP2 and all of Microsoft's Updates. I reinstalled the OS with the Dell Reinstallation CD provided with this computer. I have also used the Drivers and Utilities disk to install the drivers that were designated for my...

Hello group, I gave my mother a Dell c-510 laptop but my brother got on it and now it may be dead......or maybe not. If anyone can help me diognose this problem it would be greatly appreciated. When I try boot up the laptop I get the "We apologize for the inconvenience..... start Winows...

Hi all, I'm planning to buy the Inspiron 6400 shortly and would appreciate feedback on some of my decisions and questions. Journey, I know you have an E1505. Are you still happy with it? Any regrets or things you'd do differently if you started over? My uses: - internet/email, word processing,...

Just recieved my vista u/g on Monday, so pleased with Dell on that one as I only ordered app., 10 weeks ago. I'm in the UK and it was posted in the US apparently. Now then....'do I u/g my pc just now, or do I wait? Hmm. Not too sure about that part. Joe. PS

My laptop had hot cocoa spilled on the keyboard and after a substantial drying off period it restarts but the scroll lock key will activate itself as if it were pressed. I have removed and unpluged the keyboad and resarted machine with an external keyboard and no problems now for three hours. ...

MB_ wrote: I am thinking of ordering a wireless Dell Inspiron 1150. This would be my first notebook computer. I have a question about the battery choices which a 65 whr 8-cell versus 96 whr-12 cell. Ok, the Dell site indicates the latter will have about 500

I have a Dell 2400, just so I stay barely on topic. Like most Windows users, the threats of hackers, viruses, worms, and malicious scripts are a part of everyday online life. However, I have a cousin who owns a Apple eMac. He told me he doesn't have any anti-virus or firewall software on his...