My 8200 has 2 x 60GB disks - C: and D: I want to replace the 60GB (C:) drive in my 8200. I'd like to improve performance as well, so I'm considering the following to upgrade - to provide SATA-300 connectivity- MRi SATA2/2P - SATA-300 - PCI (storage controller) and Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320...

I just checked out: http://www.pacificbattery.com/dell1000.html I've heard good things about the company. They have a Dell-branded battery -- $99.99 with 1 year warranty But they also have a campatible -- $82.99 with a 18-month warranty.

Just when I wanted to send out a FAX, I find that the modem is not working properly. I bougth this FAXmode, from DELL about one year ago (after buying the PC itself in JAN2005) , and it was working with the WIN XP Fax wizzard with a Creative driver installed. The Creative 10/18/2002 driver...

I know... yeah I have waffled on Office 2007, but after using it for a while I thoroughly hate it. I uninstalled it, and installed Office 2003 and in additon Office 97 Word and Excel. The 2003 versions are good, but the 97 versions are super-fast with my P4 3ghz 2.5G RAM desktop. I have been...

My dad "says" he deleted OE 6. If indeed he did manage to do that, can I just download OE 6? I briefly looked on the MS site and didn't see a way to do so. I don't want him upgrading to IE 7. He's not using IE anymore anyway. I'm on my way over there and hoping to have some replies to help me...

Hi all: Have to replace the hard drive in a Dimension 2300 desk top. OS = XP Home Upgrading to 1gig of memory as well. Have built systems from scratch before, but not worked on a factory system. Any tricks to help, or known issues that may impeed the process? Thanks

have Dell discontinued the M series precision notebooks?

Maybe someone here can help me with this - lexar couldn't: I have a Dell Dimension B110 that I bought about four months ago. When I tried to use a Lexar Secure II jump drive with it, an error message would come up saying that the vault services would not mount. The jump drive worked OK with my old...

Dell has a nice plastic bracket for securiing and removing the SATA drives in its Precision series of workstations. Does any vendor make an external SATA drive enclosure that takes SATA drives in these plastic brackets? It would be extremely handy to have this when you have a system down and...

I've turned off autoscanning on startup and on whim in Norton in my new Inspiron 6400, and the damn thing still can't even put up the desktop after ten minutes, with (task manager reveals after ten minutes) every program under the sun running at once, I think under the influence of ccApp.exe The...

Dimension 4300 (I know-time to upgrade); I have used Ghost for image and it has saved my bacon a couple of times, plus when I added a larger HDD, it was a snap to restore the OS etc, and auto-expand the four partitions. A pain in the butt to shutdown and run from DOS, but worth it. I have also...

Howdy -- I've posted about an issue and clearly I need a new keyboard. so now I have to contact Dell. Right now, I'm in a chat queu -- wait time about 20 minutes. Is this the best way to contact support with my goal being to get a replacement keyboard? Mel

How do you clean the screen on a 2006 Dell Laptop? It's an INSPIRON E1705 Thank you and Happy New Year! George

I have a Dimension 9200; how do I boot into Safe Mode please? I've tried both F2 & F12 on booting & in neither case could I find a Safe Mode option.

I want to connect dell inspiron b120 to TV. Is S-video cable the only equipment I need to buy? please help. thanks!!

Has anyone had any good or bad experiences with refurbished Dells? I don't care if they have scratches and dents as long as the price is good. Also, when is the best time to buy a refurbished Dell? My guess is that Christmas returns mean a lot of used desktops to choose from. Should I wait a...

Sometime around March after Vista is out, I am going to get a XPS M1210. I want a laptop that boots up fast and opens applications fast. I see now that they have a 160gb 5400rpm hard drive, and a 100gb 7200rpm hard drive. I would get the faster one if it will make a "significant difference" --...

Since I received my new laptop (Dell E1505), I noticed that Dell seem to have replaced the default IE6 search window with its own. The search results are displayed in the main window instead of the search window as with the default. How does one return to the default IE6 search window so that I...

I have my home network through the phone line, with a 2wire router. I don't know what has happened, but all of the sudden my other two computers cannot get on the internet. Is there a way other than system restore to remove all traces of a network, so that I can start completely over I have an...

I have a D-Link WBR-1310 Wireless Router I am able to connect to the internet throughout the whole day but I am unable to connect to the internet in the morning after a few hours on inactivity. I am able to connect to the internet if the cable goes from the modem to the computer's nic card. I...