I have a Dimension E521.On start up I get a black sceen and it says Diskette Drive 0 seek Failure.And it says to click F1.I click on F1 and then it will start. Anyone know how to fix this and or how to reformate the whole unit? Tom/Wisc.

One of the advantages of Fedex ground returns is you can follow the box as it gets misrouted Nov 28, 2008 4:12 PM On FedEx vehicle for delivery GROVE CITY, OH 1:56 PM Picked up GROVE CITY, OH apparently scheduled to sit in a pickup truck over the weekend before being redelivered to...

Rang up Dell to place an order for an xmas present for my Nephew with a price of £429, then realised that if i waited 7 days the Tax in the Uk was going down from 17.5% to 15% , so was just about to ring off and they told me if i order today they would knock another 2.5% off save waiting till...

On a returned Vostro 1500, Dell shipped the return box from the local Fedex office, where apparently there's a supply; so that's pretty fast. But the return label is for PRP Ground Service, so 1. Fedex won't pick up the same day you call (``there's a mandatory one day delay'' said the phone...

Another 'what is your opinion' question: Given how big and how fast today's hard drives are...is there a need for a 2nd internal hard drive (unless you're interested in RAID)? I can see my next PC with one internal hard drive and an external hard drive (or two) for backups and maybe NAS. Daddy

In looking through Dell's support site for a computer from my past (that I'd really like to find a working example of!), I ran across something known as a Dell SmartPC. The picture that Dell shows looks like a Dimension 2100 desktop with a blue plastic front. Model #s given were 100D through 450D....

A (apparently) motherboard died in my Vostro 1500. The chat guy asks me to remote optical drive, HD and RAM and try powering it on. I got the optical drive out. I got two screws of the HD out. They were tight, and released with a loud ``crack'' when they started turning. Do they...

My boss has asked me to purchase a laptop for him. It will have to have Xp on it. Other than that a decent processor and fast hard drive, don't really need allot of storage. Most work it will be doing is web based so a good wireless card is also priority. A full size keyboard and 14/15"...

I have a Dell Dimension 9100, bought in August 2005, with a card reader for CF, SD and other cards. It won't read High Capacity SD cards, such as the 16 GB cards I am using in a camera. I am not sure if this is hardware limitation, or whether it could be resolved with a driver update. It isn't a...

Dell xps420, I have 2 mice showing in device manager,Logitech laser mx320,when I try to remove one vista installs it back,tried it in safe mode also,could it be because I have Bluetooth card reader,also in the bios I have mini viewer disabled,from a cold boot it does not come on,but from a...

OK, I know this is a Dell group, but I figure you guys would know about this. They had a 4-hour special sale at our local Meijers (like Walmart) store. They were selling Acer One Ultra Portable for $345. It has a 8.9" screen, 1 gig memory, and 120 gig hard drive. It comes with a mouse and...

The patient is a Dimension 4550, XPHome, SP3, BIOS A08. Everything's been fine, until... I opened the box to remove one of two optical drives. I had to remoed both power and data cables to both the optical drives to gain access to the one I wanted to remove. I did that just fine, and cabled...

There's a bunch of XP Home Vostro 1500's 2GHz 120GB 2GB for $499 at the outlet, which is a decent price. I've seen them only $10 cheaper, once. -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

Hi, Can anyone tell me how to remove a Pentium Processor on a Dell Diminsion 3000? I don't see any type of release mechanism. The PC will not post (no video output). I thought I would try reseating the processor. Thanks in advance,

Hi, I've got a Dell GX620 with an enterprise software image ghosted to it. I need a clean Windows XP install to run a certain application. Will I have problems using the Dell Reinstall CD? I don't want to delete the enterprise image without being certain I can install XP from the reinstall...

Looking for some clues on running donw spurious reboots of my Dell running XP. The peculiar thing is that it doesn't always seem to go through the entire boot process. I'll have a something such as e-mail open and leave the room for a few moments and when I return the Windows log on screen is up....

I'm looking for a PC with a very good quality 24" monitor (possibly Dell 2408WFP) that'll be used for web browsing, word processing, Excel spreadsheets, possibly Acces DB usage and to run a good quality flight simualtor and maybe BluRay movies. FRecommendations are most welcome. I haven't...

I AM BUYING USED AND NEW EQUIPMENT. I ALSO NEED LOTS OF MICROSOFT AND ADOBE OEM SOFTWARE. If you have some Microsoft software to sell like Windows XP Pro, Office XP, SBE, 2003, 2007, Pro, Standard and others please email me back with a list of what you are selling. Also please see my want to buy...

Hi all, Old guy back again. I installed a new hard drive in my E310, all went well for about a week. then problems started, like printer software not working properly, camera software not working, ect. It seemed like all of it was slowly failing. I ran my anti virvus,malware,spybot...

I'm in the market for a new gaming computer capable of running the latest (Fall Out 3) and built to run any foreseeable game that might be developed in the next four years. Every 4-5 years I buy an new computer. Price range less that $6,000. So, What do the Gamers out there recommend?