Idiot dell phone tech rep Latitude 6400 crashes once every two weeks Diagnostics find ram error, very intermittent. I say send me two new mem chips and i'll send back the old ones. If it fixes it, then it's good. If not, it needs a new motherboard.

Does anyone know where to find info on why a driver or BIOS should need updating? The Support page for my Precision T3500 lists a whole bunch of drivers that are "Recommended" for updating. One, the "Dell-Utility" driver, is even rated "Urgent". My BIOS is one in the range of A07 to A09, and...

The laptop here has half a gig of RAM. Is it possible to add more?

My folks' trusty Dimension 4500 recently was the victim of a well-intentioned attempt to upgrade the RAM (DDR2 meet DDR slot, proceed to burning smell and three-beeps-no-POST-joy). I want to return it to service by replacing the motherboard with that of a Dimension 8300, as I have read about many...

Living alone, I never needed a password on my D505. But today -for no reason- it says : HDD is protected by a password. Pressing F2, I can see that bios password is DISABLED. Any suggestion ?

Help! I have the blue screen of death for UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME. The STOP codes a 0x000000ED (0x8ADB2C28,oxC000009C,0x00000000,0x00000000) The PC is a DELL Dimension 8300 from around 2003, running Windows XP. We're just back from hols and I donwloaded photos from my daughter's camera - she...

I have never used a hardrive password before. Nobody has access to this laptop. This morning it says "HDD is protected by a password..." Pressing F2, I can see in the Setup that Hdd password is Disabled. Trying to enable another password doesnot help. Any suggestion?

.....does anyone know of a utility that will DoD (or even simple 0's overwrite) multiple hard drives in parallell rather than sequentially (thereby saving considerable time)? In a perfect world, the utility would need to work with IDE/SATA/ and SCSI..... Yeah, asking a lot I know. Please post...

I have a Dell SE198WFPv monitor. I'm trying Windows 7 on a computer that used to have Vista. Things worked well in Vista as far as Direct3D, however since I have 7, it is no longer Direct3D compatible (for screen savers). Has anyone else had this problem. I'll keep looking for the answer on...

My Latitude laptop came back for the third time from the repair depot (hard problem - memory errors every few months, fails diagnostics for about a day, then fine again. Developed newly a display flicker). Opening the box, I have the feeling it's fixed. Checked off is new LCD cover, new LCD...

Does Dell make any computers with these motherboards? The computers I looked at mentioned SATA 3.0 and a Dell rep mistakenly told me that it meant SATA 3.

Following my question about the sudden death of my 5 years old latitude, I have tried to call Dell support several time. After waiting long time, I decided to try an email. But I got a surprising answer: Dell doesnot provide email support anymore. So my conclusion is that Dell is not interested in...

Is anyone using the software - System Mechanic - to cleanup and speed up your computer? If so, what do you think of it and how do you have it running on your system? I am running WinXP-SP3 on my Dell computer and was/am having some performance problems and Dell recommended...

Hi, Can someone tell me the correct mouse driver for the E520, under Vista 32 bit? Thanks

Haven't shopped for laptops (win 7 with min 4gig ram) for several years now so before I scour the net, any good Dell laptops to consider for the wife? Nothing fancy in useage. I'm looking in the approx $500 or less range. Prefer Dells to others tho. Any recommended sites beside Amazon, Newegg...

We've just bought a power vault 114X tape enclosure for running off backups.. I'm quickly starting to think we've made a big mistake, firstly we need a SAS connector to actually connect the device up to anything; that's proving difficult at the moment! and then I'm doubting how we'll actually use...

Four years has passed since I bought a new Dell and I was thinking it might be time for an upgrade my xps laptop. Having purchased laptops from Dell in the past I decided on a desktop particularly the XPS8500. In the past I usually built my own desktops so I always knew what components were...

Hi, I bought a 15.6" Dell laptop for my in-laws, and it was advertised as 720p. http://tinyurl.com/84hhnbu I had assumed that the native resolution would be xxxx X 720. But, it automatically set itself to 1366 X 768, and there was no selection for anything like xxx X 720. I was not...

Have been buying workstations for 10 or 15 years, and now it's time for another one. The history is, starting with an old Gateway platform that dual booted from SCSI or IDE... Dell 610, Dell 670, and now? Looking at the 690, the 3500, and 5500. What is the progression? where can I find a...

I'm looking for a suitable 1394 Firewire adapter for the Dell 670 Workstation that will plug into a PCIX slot. IIRC the PCIX is 64-bit, and that's what's needed for 800 MBps? The 670 already has Firewire but it's 6-pin and 400 speed. My new Passport Studio has Firewire 9-pin jacks. It could work...