I have an XPS 210 running Vista which has been giving me the following
problem since new, although I've only recently tried to get to the bottom of
it.
Basically, when I first boot the PC, the CD drive is missing from Explorer.

I see newegg has a good price on G.Skill laptop memory.  
I was going to do pc2-4200 but pc2-5300 is cheaper but using this
brand I never heard of.  So far from what I read, the brand is okay
but just wanted reassurance from here.  BTW, newegg has it for $20.99

I had asked the question here: at what point is a battery deemed replaceable
under the 1-year warranty. Nobody here really seemed to know, so I emailed
Pacific. Their response follows. But it seems weird that they would replace
it if it seems to be 50% degraded. That's pretty ...

I just installed Vista Ultimate on a Dimension 9200 E6600 with 1GB.
Pretty powerful machine.  I've had Vista on a matching D9200, but that
machine has 2GB.
First, always disable Indexing.  TERRIBLE resource hog.

Can someone refresh my memory?  I think someone already asked /
answered this but I forgot.   If some pc's or laptops switch over to
Vista, will the Vista and remaining XP machines network nicely
together?  Or what do I need to do to make them cooperate and share

I recently received and have set up my Dell 2208WFP 22" widescreen
monitor.  It runs at a resolution of 1680x1050 pixels.  The picture quality
is nice, but it doesn't seem to be quite as sharp as my previous monitor,
the Dell 2007WFP, a 20" widescreen monitor that also ran at ...

   I've recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 531 and I like it. However, it
uses MS vista and it doesn't have serial ports. I use X10 Activehome to
control lights in our home and the computer interface uses a 9 pin
connector. The USB to RS232 adapter cable, I purchased, will not ...

As long as I buy PC2-5300 ddr2 dimm memory for my E1405, I presume it
doesn't matter how many pins it has?  I've seen on different vendors
ram for this laptop say 200 or 240 pins.   Just want to be sure and
not guess before I part with the cash <g>.   thanks.

With the AC power on, when the lid is closed, the light all the way on
the left blinks green and later alternates between green and red. What
does the red light mean? I could not find anything in the documentation
about this.

Good day,
Just bought an Inspiron 1520 and it came with mc Affee, Roxio 9,
Works 8 installed.
I formated the drive to get rid of all these programs I absolutely do

While playing around with Linux I accidentally executed the follow commands:
sudo e2label /dev/sda1 casper-rw
sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
The first one changed the label of the partition to "casper-rw".

It appears that Dell has dropped the ATI CableCard tuners.  They offered
them for the last two weeks (yes, two weeks) of the XPS 410 life and now
the 420 doesn't offer them.  I'm interested as it is the only way to
record Premium cable channels.

Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Got a refurb Dell E521 Amd Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5000 with 2gigs of
mem an ATI Radeon™ X1300 Pro with 256 megs mem Vista home premium here
that I just managed to get bios to the current 1.1.11 state and i'm

I asked this in another group on November 9, but got no replies, so I
thought I'd try here.
I've got a Dlink-524 router, connected to a Comcast modem.  I
somethimes

My apologies, but can't think of a better place to ask help! (This
does occur on my Dimension 8300). I subscribe to the NY Times Premium
Puzzle page for my husband. Have not accessed this for several months,
as I'll go in, download a bunch of puzzles and print them out for him.