Is there a web site for the service manual for a latitude c800.
The machine I have has an 850 mghz processor. In some the reading I have
been doing in the Dell forums, it would appear that some people have a 1
ghz processor in their machine. Is it possible to upgrade all machines

I have the subject computer which gives a message that the hard drive is
failing and I should replace it. I wish to run it until it fails without the
"Press F1 to continue" message coming up on every startup. Any way to get
rid of it? Maxblast says there is nothing wrong with the ...

I ran into a weird issue with a Dell Optiplex GL150 tower that I was
upgrading for a customer.  The customer wanted a new hard drive and more
memory.  Obviously the hard drive went off without a hitch, however when
upgrading from 128mb of memory to maxing out the system with ...

I think it went fairy well.... (I hade read a lot of posts before
attempting it)
The BIOS appears to have taken. The new memory appears to be accepted.
After fiddling with BIOS setting for a long time - the hard drive and

When online at Dell website, and configure a system, is there a way to
lookup what parts are going to be used?  
For example, I want to know how many PCI slots the motherboard will
have, one or two IDE channels (or are all newer motherboards one IDE

I'm trying to install a 400MHz 512meg memory on my Dell 4500, that
should use 266MHz memories. I think that a faster memory should work
fine on a slower computer, but the only thing I get are 3 beeps at
power up that means ram problem. I also try to boot the computer with

My customer has recently been experiencing the 0x07B
Inaccessible_Boot_Error on their Dell PowerEdge 1600SC server.
I have recovered this once by running CHKDSK /r (I think) from the
original Windows 2000 SBS CD however, I understand that this is not

Hi Got this machine. I want to format HD. I got Windows MCE back-up CD. How
can use it to boot laptop, format C: drive and install Windows MCE from
scratches?
Thank You for any help

   Ok, here is what I'm thinking about getting:
   Dell E310 - 2.8GHz, XP home edition, 1GB of ram, 80GB hard drive, DVD
drive and CD RW drive, no floppy drive, 17 inch crt monitor, Dell A215
speakers, printer: $619.00  I can drop the 1GB ram to 500MB and lower the

   Ok, I've decided to get a new computer for Christmas.  Would like a
Dell.  I was looking at their E310 computers.  Bumping it up to 500mb ram
and getting two optical drives (dvd and cd writer) plus speakers - around
$600.00

I have an Inspiron 8000 which is subject to random cut-off and pretty
much constant fan activity (fans will be off at idle, will cut in for
even 4% CPU usage) . Reading around this appears related to the BIOS.
When I got the box the fans were constantly on, but the box was stable

I am looking to buy an additional hard drive for my Dimension 8400.  I
am a bit confused as to what interface I need to get on this hard
drive to be compatible with my current set up.  Do I need a Serial ATA
150 or SATA 3.0 Gb/s?  My current setup is listed below.  Thanks!

I have a Dell XPS 600 with 2 160GB HD's (non-RAID).  The motherboard
and SATA controllers are by Nvidia, not Intel.  I'm using the latest
Nforce4 drivers.
When I try booting from the Norton Ghost 9 CD it boots up ok but the

I'm trying to sell this laptop but I can't do it without first fixing
this display problem. Its Dell Inspiron 8200 with ultra xga or
something display. Whenever I try to change display resolution, the
screen goes blanks. Although all programs are running, its just the

OK - I've been repairing an Inspiron 8000. All seems well, except when
idling I'm getting running temperatures of around 68C. I'm sure this is
too high.
When I put in the CPU, I just undid the heatsink clamp, put in the CPU,