Hi all! Have questions about above: 1) is TV tuner internal? 2) what can be change in the laptop itself by user? video, memory, hard drive? 3) is possible to swap CD/DVD for second battery? I am looking for one machine-for all-home, road. Have I7K now and very happy with it, but looking for...

I purchased an Inspiron 6000 on the 16th of July and recieved it DOA on the 22nd. I called Dell's so called "Customer Care" and spent the next two and a half hours on the phone between being put on hold for long stretches, having my call dropped and landing back on hold, and bouncing between 3...

Leaving aside for the moment the fact that the announcements for A15 and A16 were Emailed to me an hour apart yesterday, while the release dates for the files are two and one month ago, respectively: One of the fixes in the A15 BIOS is (finally!): /* Fixed an intermittent situation where a system...

Hi all, I have an Dell Inspiron 8000 with XP Pro on it. When I turn it on, it runs for a while then the screen goes blank and all the lights on the keyboard are off. Then, when I push on the power button, the laptop does a Windows shutdown. After the shutdown, the battery light stays on. When I...

I got an automated update notice about an upgrade/fix to the DVD burning software. I went ahead and d/l'd it, and when I went to install it, I found out that the version on my computer was newer than what the fix was. The file name is CD21 and it's a CmbFlash file. In checking it out, a right...

Hi A friend has asked me to install a non-Dell DVD burner into his Dimension 4xxx (can't quite remember it exactly) and the things that bother me a One side of the case is held by studs not screws so it doesn't seem to be detachable. Only one screw hole is accessible for the 5.25 in drive bay...

Just purchased a used D600 from my company, and want to upgrade the internal CD-ROM to either a CD-RW or combo drive. Don't want to go through Dell - as I assume replacement parts are more expensive then necessary. Would prefer to purchase from ZipZoomFly or newegg. Suggestions on which drive to...

We are starting a rollout of some GX270's that have, IIRC, 6 USB ports. these models have no PS ports for a mouse or keyboard, and thus have to use USB keyboards and mice. One thing that concerns me is the availability of USB ports to the end user. The ability of adding a USG device like a thumb...

I have gone to the Dell site and looked up the maximum amount of memory that can be inserted in a Dimension 8400, Dell says 2GB max, but I have seen sites that sell memory ( corsair ) that state a Dimension 8400 can have as much as 4GB. Does anyone know what the correct amount is? Regards ricardo

I'm assuming the largest per slot memory stick that the XPS T600 can handle is a 256mb PC100~133 stick? I have sevearl 64MB sticks here that work great in it, but a Micron 512mb stick doesn't allow the system to boot. Thoughts? Brad

Does anyone know why, for the past several days, I have been unable to customize a PC at dell.com? Every time I click the "Customize It" button I receive an error page with text: "We are having technical difficulties..." Dell tech support offered no explanation and no expected date for problem...

One day, after a very brief brownout, I turned on my computer to discover that several programs hung halfway through loading or apparently loaded, but didn't respond to any commands, mouse click, etc. I had a recent Ghost 9 image. I restored. The same programs didn't function properly. I had an...

I bought a used Dell Latitude 505 notebook on ebay from a pawn shop. I want to erase the hard drive so that I can reinstall a clean version of windows xp pro. However, currently, the BIOS configure setup is disabled, admin password is enabled and configure passwords is enabled. The current boot...

hello, dell dimension xps-t600... (win98se) i never used the ms works suite and now i need excel and msWord. i have disk 1 (ms word 97, ms works 4.5a, ms works calendar, ms ie 4.01, ms money 99 setup, ms encarta encyclopedia setup, ms graphics studio greetings 99 setUp) i find no disk 2 or 3 disk 4...

The battery life on my Inspiron 2200 is terrific, often approaching four full hours, but I have a couple of international flights coming up, and so I need even more battery life. Is there a way of putting two batteris in the 2200 at the same time, or is my only option swapping batteries after four...

Hi, All the status lights on a Dell 1700n printer are blinking. I see no information on such an error in the manual or on the Web. I see no jammed papers, and the toner is only a few weeks old. What else should I check for? Thanks.

Dell customer service, about 40 min. of bouncing around the world, if you don't know what you need. About 20 minutes if you're on track. About 10 for a corporate account that knows what it needs. This is what I know: Dell customer service was flexible enough to get the job done over the phone -...

I would like to know if anyone is running a Radeon x850xt PE on their Dimension 8400. If so, what is the power rating of your power supply. A Dimension 8400 comes standard with a 350 watt p/s and all the Radeon x850xt cards that I have looked into buying specify a mininum 400 watts for the...

I own a Dimension 8400 which currently has 1GB ( 2 *512 sticks )of NECC DDR2 sdram. I want to upgrade to 2 GB of ram. I have ordered 2 * 512 corsair PC4200(553Mhz) memory modules to add to the already installed sdram. Do you think the corsair sticks will work okay or do you think I may have...

Using WinXP Home. When I scan and want to save on computer it defaults to My Pictures folder. When I change that to save a different folder on the very next scan it comes back to the My Pictures folder. How can I make it default to a different folder? Thank.