Experiences? Mel

Hello all. For a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop I want to create the System Recovery Discs. The CD drive on this laptop is: Dvd+/-Rw,8X,Serial Ata,Small Form Factor,Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology My question is *exactly* what kind of media do I buy? I've never purchased recordable DVDs before....

Does anyone here have direct experience using the HP P800 SAS RAID controller against the Dell PERC 6/i under Windows 7 64 bit? Which is the better controller? What matters to me, in order: 1) Least likely to fail (I have had HP hardware RAID controllers spontaneously lose their entire...

Got Win7 64-bit installed on my Inspiron and I have two different IE entries in the Start/All Programs menu. Bog standard IE and IE (64-bit). What's the difference? The BBC website, for example, displays identically in both?

I have a dell dimension 8400. I am interested in buying a new card that ONLY WORKS WITH A PCI-E 2.0 SLOT. Is the pci-e slot in my dell 8400 a 2.0 slot? If yes than respond with a "Yes!". Thanks.

Using Acronis True Image -or the free editions called Seagate disk wizard or WD disk wizard- I use to keep backup images of my C partition. Since I still use XP + basic home user software, it only takes 3 minutes to make such a backup (less than 2 GB). In any doubtful situation (whatever due to...

A feature discovered very late (I'm running XP Home with a very old version of Cygwin), /dev/clipboard On computer 1 cp /dev/clipboard /tmp/temp # writes it to a file C:/cygwin/tmp/temp On computer 2 cp //firstcomputer/tmp/temp /dev/clipboard # copies the file to the mouse on the second...

I have a spare 500GB internal P-ATA hard drive that I would like to make into an external USB 2.0 hard drive. I see lots of enclosures advertised for SATA, but very few for P-ATA. Not surprising, I suppose. Any suggestions for a reliable enclosure for a P-ATA drive are gratefully accepted....

Could someone explain why the XPS 9000 is so much larger and heavier than, say the 8100? I understand it has more slots, higher end cpu, and larger power supply. But do those factors account for about 20 pounds more weight and several more inches in the main dimensions? Thanks, Ron

wie ken me uit leggen waarom ik bij het opstarten van een dell dimension 9159 geen ctrl en f10 ken gebruiken. en hoe ken ik de fabrieksinstellingen terug zetten zonder een cd van dell xp op me pc te zetten? mvg john --------------= Posted using GrabIt =---------------- ------= Binary Usenet...

Has anyone tried to put Windows 7 on an Inspiron 6000? Dell does not recommend it or supply drivers, but I have 2 Gigs of RAM and an upgraded hard drive. Larry

I have dell 420 with core 2 quad 6600 processor, a friend of mine has a core 2 quad 9650 and wants to sell for a reasonable price, does any body on this group have done this, I have bios A06. Thanks --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: ---

Hi All, I am not real familar with firewire, so here goes. I have 2 Western Digital external hard drives. One is attached to my XPS 410 via one of the firewire ports on the back of the computer. When I attach the other drive via firewire cable to the empty port, it is not recognized, so it is...

How come there's Vostro 1220's with 800 MHz memory and others with 677 MHz memory? Does it affect execution speed? One more thing to watch out for? The FSB is 1066 MHz (battle of hastings) in both cases. -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

Does anyone know of a free program that will create playlists (.m3u format)? I found one, Playlist Creator 3.6.1. Seemed to work like a charm. Created the playlist on my usb thumb drive, put the drive in my car's usb port, Sync recognized the drive and playlist but only ONE of 13 songs was in...

I think we can agree that I have beaten the life out of this topic, so this is the last you'll hear from me about it. In February, 2010, Dell issued a notice through its technical knowledge base that it will no longer include a Windows 7 disc (or a Drivers and Utilities disc) with its...

Well, my Studio XPS 8100 desktop showed up today...with a Windows 7 disc (among other discs.) Some may recall that after I placed my order, I read in a Dell knowledgebase article that Dell was no longer shipping Windows discs with its computers. That made me /mucho/ unhappy. It may be that...

Hi, I've got a Presicion 390 that I got used. I installed a new hard drive and a new install of XPSP3. The 390 came with a Sony CD-RW CRX217E and a Philips DVD+-DVD8801. Both show working properly in Device Manager. Also, If I enable CD recording in one of these drives, CD recording is...

Can any external USB DVD drive with with this laptop? This includes the ability to boot from a DVD to install little things - like the operating system. Or do I have to get a Dell proprietary drive?

From a practical standpoint, for someone who will spend most of their time checking email, surfing the web, and writing the occasional Word document, does it matter whether they have a discrete video card or if the graphics are integrated with the motherboard? Does it make a difference if the PC...