geforce 310, or radeon 5450. pretty low end cards i.m.o. why is dell doing this? is it a limitation of the power supply? motherboard? i would think that with an intel i7 that they would have at least stuck with the ati 4850.

Hi, i'm gettin the same message. i can't boot from the cd and when i run the diagnostic this message comes up. plz can somebody help me? is it completely lost or there is still hope for it? thanks in advance

Hi All, I have an old Dimension 8100 that I used as a file server. The HD was new, with a fresh install of XP Home SP3, connected to an UPS with Powechute shutdown for outages, and was working fine for about six months. It just up and died one day. I have opened it up, no lights, no monitor,...

can someone please explain in layman terms what the difference is between the radeon 4850 and the radeon 5450? i'm not tech saavy so if you can explain in layman terms i'd appreciate it. -- Peter Lucas Brisbane Australia

Hi, Just wondering what people are buying these days - currently using a Dim9200 which works fine on Win7, but want to have a quieter system. I want at least I7 processor with 8GB RAM. Good sound would be nice, not bothered if it uses onboard Intel video. Would like to get solid state storage...

On a Win 7 64 bit OS with Outlook 2007, urls in emails will not launch my browser-I get a dialog stating check with administrator. IS there a security setting somewhere? IE is set as the default browser

OK, as I've been posting, I am having continuing problems with my Inspiron 2200. So, I will either buy a used computer with XP or just get a new laptop with Windows 7. So, first, about Windows 7. I have a desktop and netbook (and the Inspiron laptop), all running XP HOME. The cable and router...

No this is not spam or a fake. They claim they can not do anything without a customer number. The person he spoke to said with customer number they cannot help. I was on here the first part of April asking about where the best place to buy a new battery. Pacific Battery was where everybody...

My son ordered a new battery for his Inspiron laptop last month. I checked here and all liked them. He got his credit card statement today and they had charged him for 2 different orders. He needed his customer number. He had thrown it away already. Thus they could not do anything. I just...

My wife's 40 GB drive on her Inspiron 6000 is totally full and I want to replace it with a (much) larger one. It's a Toshiba Proteus which looks to have an E-IDE interface. But I'm confused about what type of interface I need since they seem to be categorized on the sites I've looked at as SATA...

OK, I'm shopping around for a new laptop. My needs are modest. Staples has a nice special tomorrow: HP laptop (does not state model #). Intel Dual core Processor T4400 17.3" screen, which I LIKE. 3 gb RAM 250 GB HD Windows 7 Home. $479.99

i'm thinking of going from a xps 630i to studio xps 9000 with the i7 2.66. current xps has dual core 3.1 4 gbt memory with the radeon 4850 with 512 memory and the 9000 comes with 6 gb memory and a radeon 5450 with 1 gb. being that hard drive space is not an issue, is it worth the $ to upgrade?...

Well, I've been posting about problems with my Dell Inspiron 2200. In short, after 6-7 years of no problems, it suddenly started slowing down, freezing, trouble booting, etc. It got so bad that I often had to do cold shutdowns. Anyway, I tried lots of things, to no avail. Last night, I got...

Partition Magic on my old Inspiron 1200 doesn't recognize my new on-sale 16gb Kingston USB flash drive, which comes with a FAT32 filesystem. I'd like NTFS so that the file permissions and dates aren't clobbered. Is there something that changes it to NTFS? Or is it for some reason not...

The old Poweredge 1550 1U server uses a drive tray number 1F912. Does Dell make any just a bunch of disks (JBOD) drive array that uses the same style tray? -- W

Tried to post this last night but it didn't take. My wife's Studio 1535 would not recover from sleep so I held the power button till it shut down. Then it would not boot. The lights above the keyboard scanned through their normal sequence and the HD light blinked on briefly----then nothing...

Any suggestions? I'm looking for an XP Dell. These have recently been listed. What would be a decent price? Are these both decent machines? My needs are web surfing and some Office applications Inspiron 6000 Item specifics - PC Laptops Brand: Dell Processor...

OK, I continue to have computer problems where it suddenly, without warning, slows to a crawl. After doing some reading and trying different things, I discovered that my IDE Controller (Primary IDE channel from Device Manager Advanced Settings) was in PIO mode. It should be in DMA mode....

Will ATI HD 4670 card will work on my Dell Vostro 200 PC?

I have an Inspiron 1100 vintage 2003 running XP SP3 on which I would like to use the extended desktop feature with a second monitor. After connecting the second monitor, I can display on either monitor or both by using the Fn - F8 toggle, so I know the second monitor is working OK. But following...