I have a pretty nice computer that I bought on Jun 25th of last year. Its an
XPS 400 Pentium D 3Ghz machine with 2 gigs of DDR-2 ram , a 180 GIG SATA 3
HD , an NVIDIA 7900 GTX 512 , a Sound Blaster Audigy card and the operating
system is WIN XP MEDIA CENTER ( I have the cd's too ...

Hello and let me thank anyone who reply's to this post in advanced for
the help it's sooo appreciated.....OK lets begin
I have a dell Inspiron 3800 laptop... a couple years back the damn
thing was giving me crazy sounds from the fan so i decided i would see

I bought a new SATA drive for my Dimension 5100, but the standard cable
that I bought to go with it sticks right out of the drive in such a way
that I can't put the cover back on. The cable that came with the original
drive has a right-angled connection which avoids this problem.

Early Wed morning, while cruising the web, I suddenly got hit by over a
dozen viruses, all at the same time.  For every minute since, I've been
trying to find and eliminate the attacking
viruses.  I'm about 80% there, but can go no further.....and my browser is

Is it just me, or has nobody else complained about this problem? I'm
new to Dell, having been used to purchasing components instead, and
i'm somewhat disappointed that my purchase of a second graphics card
has led to the on-board one to become disabled (I want dual-monitor

Dell has brought back WIN XP Pro with Inspiron 9400 laptops.  Do they
still come with a free upgrade to Windows Vista?
thanks

Got my new xps 410 yesterday!! It came with Vista, but I plan on installing
XP pro in a dual boot config.
Do I need to download the XP drivers from the dell site, or are they on the
dvd that came with the system? I looked on the dvd, but I can't tell if the

I just formatted my Dimension 4200 hard drive and now it won't recognize the
dvd and cd writer.
i used a boot disk and formatted the drive. It loads the driver but says no
drives found.

When booting a Precision 380 with a RAID 1 mirror, one of the drives is
coming up as "Unrecognized".   Is this Intel's very unclear message to mean
the drive is totally dead?

Sheesh- I just bought a high end Dell with Vista- the system came with
McAfee's 30 day freebie. Each time I went online, it would proceed to
download the latest data file, then a box would pop up from the tray saying
I need to register the program- and I'd click on REGISTER- but ...

i'm trying to work out which panel my monitor has been shipped with.
I've tried the button press combination detailed on TFT Central here
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/content/dell_panel_lottery.htm
but this didn't seem to do anything.  I read that as release the 3

I have managed to crack the screen and casing on my Inspiron 4000.  It seems
to be relatively easy to replace as a whole?
Is there any way of cross-referencing the screens across the model ranges
please?  I wanted to see if I can find someone who is selling either a

I have gotten hit by a tough virus.
With the help of members of this group, I was able to find out that it is
the Winantiviruspro virus........and this thing is **mean**.
There are several removal tools available (just Google "Winantiviruspro"),

Finally got an internet connection using my Netgear DG834G but only when i
also have the network cable
connected .When i pull out the network cable i lose the internet connection.
What am i doing wrong?.

DDR2-667 PC2-5300 Memory is backward compatible to DDR2 PC2-4200 that
is installed in my 8400 dell, right?  Only ask because ZipZoomFly has a
2 gig kit of Kingston DDR2-667 PC2-5300 Memory for only $85.00 shipped.
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail ...