I just took delivery of an nVidia 8800 GTS to go into my XPS 600 along with the nVidia 7900 GTX. Does it make any difference which slot the two card are in? I would want games to use the monitor connected to the 8800.

How likely is it that the new Dell 3007 can be adequately color calibrated for an amateur Photoshop CS and video editor? I crave the high resolution, but want to be sure I will have a reasonable color flow across my scanner, monitor and printer... Thanks, --

Getting a new desktop, putting it in a room that is hard to run a cable to, so want to add it to my wireless network. Any preferred solution? I see a number of USB based devices, as well as PCI at newegg. -- Andrew Hall

My new machine gave me 4 blue screens, so I fired up memtest. Lots of failures. I have never had a failure before. Is memtest-86 v3.2 a valid test for an XPS-600 with the 3.2 gHz EE dual core chip? Should I let Dell replace the memory or just send the machine back? I waited a long time to get...

I've seen both of these on the Dell website, and I have asked Dell Reps about it. Some people have said it's a typo. Some people have said they just changed the model name to be consistant with the 2405FPW. Some people don't have a clue as to why there are two...

I recently purchased a 600m, and have just attempted to connect it to the TV using an S-Video to Composite cable. Unfortunately, when I click on the display properties for video, it still shows an X through the TV connection, saying that it's not connected. I have tried everything...downloading...

Shirley,, a cold one for the crowd,, and keep them coming,, this may take a while... I have a 8250, 2.4HGz, 512mb, hf1 = 80GB, hf2= 30GB, win xp home(w/all updates) I started to install a new Norton internet security 2004, subscription run out 8/1/4. asked for and gave product key

Would someone please elaborate on what a core duo is? thanks

I want to put in a 2nd card, do I need to worry about compatibility with the GTX 7900 I already have in there? Thanks, -- Andrew Hall (Now reading Usenet in alt.sys.pc-clone.dell...)

A friend of mine has just ordered a Dell laptop and the salesman has convinced him to pay extra for XP Professional. The tale he was told was that if he didn't have the professional version he wouldn't be able to run Vista because the Home Edition wasn't good enough. I fully understand that in...

Hi What is the fastest P4 that can run in the 8250, w/850e chip set, 533 fsb, pc1066 rdram?? When sold,, you could get the 3.06 GHz.. Thanks Jim An Old Parrot Head In The Conch Republic Just South of Reality

I've got an Inspirion 8500. The question is relative to laptops in general. I'm planning on taking my laptop along on ATV rides to use with my GPS to show trails, etc. I'm planning on using some 3" foam to make a cradle to hold the laptop in while moving. I believe the disks these days are...

Anybody know what the spec is for input? -- Kirk "Screw the planes, take a train", Me

I have a pocket digital recorder that I want to interface to my laptop. I want to transfer the audio recordings to disk. I am sure there are some impedance matching issues here as I will be going from the earphone output to the mic input on the laptop. Since, I am assuming, the mic input is mono...

Is there a detriment to running your processor at 100% so long as the cooling fans are running properly and there is adequate air flow? I have an Inspirion 8500 and started playing with SETI@home s/w which punches it up to 100% . The Threadmaster s/w that supposedly tones down the load on the CPU...

I have an Inspirion 8500 and a Zenith DVD/VHS recorder, model XBR413, that has a 1394 input for video. Upon connecting the two my 8500 see's a connection and the recorder shows an "uncontrollable device" attached to that, 1394, input. Anybody have any info on using this combination? Specifically...

Where on the system is the serial number? I see the service tag and a couple of other numbers but nothing listed as a serial number. I want it so if the confuser gets stolen I will have it on hand. Kirk "Moe, Larry, the cheese!", Curly

I've got an 8500. I have been having worlds of trouble trying to get a wireless PC card to work in this system. I've tried Linksys, Netgear and a YDI Diamond card. The latter is the only one that would "connect" to anything. All cards are seen by system and the drivers loaded and they would see...

I am having trouble with mine and wonder if anyone has a driver newer than date 7/1/2001 and version 5.1.2600.0 Kirk "Moe, Larry, the cheese!", Curly www.sandpoint.net/captkirk

I've got an 8500 and just bought a wifi card for the PCMCIA slot. Can PCMCIA cards be hot plugged providing you "unmount" them? Or is it card specific? Kirk "Moe, Larry, the cheese!", Curly