Today, I put a different power supply(because mine didn't work) from another
Dell Dimension and it will power up, but I can't see anything on the monitor.
What shall I do?

I bought FSP ZEN 300 fanless PS. It made a crackling sound sometimes,
which was accompanied with a monitor screen image trembling. The shop
replaced it with another FSP ZEN 300. The second FSP ZEN 300 makes the
crackling sound 10 times rarer, but still makes the monitor screen

Interesting looking back on my purchase decisions.
It must be 15-20 years ago but my first PC was an IBM (I think PS2). The
reason: high quality and excellent support and at that time there wasn't
much competition.

What Dell laptops support a 1920x1200 24" monitor (Dell 2407WFP)?
How is the monitor connected to the laptop? (what sort of jack)
They say the system needs to support it but are unhelpful about
whether theirs does.

I'm thinking about adding a 750 GB drive to my XPS410.  How would you
describe the noise level of the Seagate and Western Digital 750 GB
drives?  Also, do I need to add additional cooling?  Tom's Hardware
had this to say about the WD7500AAKS:

My dimension 3000 fan has been responding to our heat wave lately by
really revving up.  Its fine in the morning but as the temperature in
the room hits 90 the fan takes off.  I've been shutting it down the
past several afternoons but it cuts into my work time.  I did dust the

I've always had my PC's connected to a power strip along with the
monitor. I find that if I do a normal shutdown of Vista on my E520, it
does shut off. I then turn off the power strip to turn the rest of the
equipment off.

I'd been playing Pysol 4.41 solitaire games for years now, to try to
prevent my 80 year ood brain  (this August),   from turning to
gorgonzola cheese.
The program crashed and I didn't have a backup. (I hate myself because

Got my E520 last Wed (arrived 3 days before scheduled ship date).
No problems at all. Added 1GB to increase to 2GB. Set up the machine.
Network setup was *WAY* easier than XP. Very fast. I actually like the
interface, especially the search box under Start.

Today I added a second SATA hard drive to my E520 system. It "clicked"
into the blue plastic bay fine. I connected the power cable fine, but
couldn't find another blue data cable to connect the drive too inside
the system. Is this cable missing? I have an extra one that might work

Looking at E520 options for sound -
Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
or
Integrated Sound Blaster Audigy HD Software Edition

I have an internal drive that I have connected via a usb adapter. For
some reason now the computer recognizes that I have plugged in
something, but it tells me on more than one hard drive that it has
malfuntioned. I think the problem lies with the usb adapter. Is there

Can you plug in something to get more USB ports?  I don't know how
they're wired, whether there are fan-out devices or what that make
them work with the software as if there are more ports.
(Oh, for the days of hardware manuals!  You could understand and

One of the things I like about Vista is that when you manually add
programs to the start menu they are automatically updated for all user
accounts (much easier than always going to "All Users" in XP).
Consequently, if I want different users to have different startup

I have Sonic Digital Media LE v7 pre-installed on my Dimension 5100.  It has
deteriorated to the point that it only rarely works.  How can I reinstall
only this program (not restore the whole hard drive to its new state)?