I formatted an E520 system I received from Dell in June. It came with
Vista and after using Vista for six months I made the jump back to XP.
I installed Windows XP Home and the following drivers from my Dell
driver CD...

I am waiting on my new xps 420 system to come in, i am looking for some good
advice on the type of apc i would need to protect this sytem with.

I need to get the SERVICE TAG utility, to change or delete the service
tag.
anyone have it?

I have a Dell Dimension 8300 with a Radeon 9000 board.
I used to be able to watch TV on it, via the ATI TV application and a
cable hookup from the video board to my home cable jack.  But at some
point this past year, the audio just stopped working, for no reason I

If I have a choice between 2 laptops, one that has 4MB L2 Cache and 2
gigs ram vs. 2MB L2 Cache and 3 gigs ram, which one would you choose?
(As I recall, Level 2 Cache is used for accepting data directly from
the memory (RAM) of the PC and having it ready for the CPU to use a

I have been using a Dell 2350 as a Media Center PC for a couple of years
very successfully. I have two tuners, both Hauppauge. One is a PCI card and
the other is a WinTV PVR-USB2. This weekend I did some cleanup involving
blowing some dust out etc., and I disconnected all of my ...

I just fired up my new Inspiron 530 and the fan is very noisy. It's much
louder than my five-year old Dimension 8250 that it's replacing. Is this
normal?
This really sucks.

I'm thinking of getting one of dells 20" wide screen monitors at
1680x1050 but am concerned of the high resolution.  Will web pages
appear small and the menu items at the top of the screen maybe too
small.  I have a 19" 1280x1024 and think the images and web pages are

Just for future reference for myself and others who have asked in the
past.........   Ok, I did a quick search and found perhaps the answer
(I assume it's correct, dunno for sure myself) and this is part of a
quote from this URL...

If I set my Linksys wireless access point
to SSID disabled (which I take it is called non-
broadcasting) I still see the name in the Dell
wireless utility, that being the network it's

I have a quick question wrt a Dell Dimension 8400. I just reinstalled XP
Pro on a friends machine onto a new HDD obtained from Dell after his
original one crashed.
While trying to "repair" the original damaged HDD, the Restore option on

Hello. I've put a dial-up PCI modem card from a Dimension 4600 into and XPS
but I can't install the drivers.
I down loaded the correct file from here

Ben, Stew and all the guys on here, your info has been greatly
appreciated and I've learned a ton and solved many problems with your
knowledge.  Finally I have ran into something that I cannot seem to find
a fix for.  I was doing some work on a friend's business computer (runs

Some old posts elsewhere seem to indicate this card is backward
compatible with the "g" standard.  Is this true ??    I'm using an old
dell "g" wireless router so if I should get this card, I just want to
be sure it's backward compatible to the "g" standard.

What is the advantage using Decrapifier vs Windows Add-Remove?
Just curious,
Dave C.