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I bought a computer for parts off of ebay and am trying to replace the motherboard. my computer is Inspiron 8100 and so is the ebay one. power comes on and sounds like it's trying to spin up but the screen doesn't power up and I can't hear the hard drive working.

I have a Dell Inspiron. It was processing info, My foot hooked on the cord, pulled the laptop off of the shelf, I caught it mid-air upside down and the lid closed. Didn't seem like any damage would be done but wouldn't turn on. NO POWER whatsoever. NO led lights,

My Display started acting strange and gradually ended with it appearing on bootup, or if I power cycled and then would blank out. I was told it could be the power options in Control Panel, which permanently set the monitor in power saver mode, and if I selected "never" for the monitor the PC would...

I'm going to replace the 250W PSU in my Dimension 8200 (2.0Ghz - built January 2001 UK) with a 400W. I've googled on this and found a number of worrying reports that due to non-ATX compliance that a standard ATX PSU could fry the mobo. Anyone got a definitve answer as to whether the Dimension...

Dell Dimension 8200, with two graphics cards driving 3 monitors: Ti500 driving one DVI LCD (@1600x1200) (AGP) FX5200 driving one DVI LCD and one non-DVI LCD (PCI) The Ti500 failed - I think due to a fan failure; something in the Dell was getting noisy - it stopped getting noisy and then the PC...

All hardware mentioned and system info are detailed at the end of this post. I have Coolmax 5.25" USB/Firewire enclosure which I have so far used only for 2.5 hard drives on my Inspiron 5150. Everything worked beautifully till days ago I put in my new internal NEC ND-4550A DVD burner. The DVD...

My apology for this n00b question... I am trying to upgrade BIOS for my Dell Inspiron 5150. I'd like to be advised about the followings. 1. What is the current BIOS version of my Inspiron 5150? Is it A25? Is BIOS A25 made by Dell or Phoenix? For details, please refer to information I've gathered...

This is on a Dimension 4600, ATI AIW 9000, 60gig Deskstar, Winxp. Well, it seems nobody on earth, (even Dell) cannot find the solution (or what is causing it) to stop that annoying 5-6 sec whirring/screeching/cats tail getting pulled sound. I've disconnected the fan, it still did it. It's not...

Windows XP Dell DIM 2400 Every time I boot up I get the following error message: "Primary Drive 1 not found. Secondary drive 2 not found. Strike the F1 key to continue, or F2 to run the setup utility. I hit F1 and I'm on my way to happy computing. But it's that extra

Looks as if I may have to give up computing. I can only afford DIAL UP, which is not conducive to the 'startup' downloading of 90MB's of anti-virus definitions...as PC TOOLS requires Apple is MUCH smarter. "Intego" security software for Apple, offers the downloads, broken down into 5 different...

When I purchased my 8400 system a few weeks ago, I configured it to have the 160 GB NCQ Hard drive. Going into the Device manager, the model number shone for my hard drive is a ST3160023AS, is this a NCQ hard drive? I know the Seagate model ST3160827AS has the NCQ but does the model ST3160023AS...

Hi all, My Exchange 2003 server was running but suddenly it’s crashed. Luckily I had windows and system state backup and data storage backup. I have done following steps. 1. Restored windows 2003 (sp2) server image which I took on July 2008. 2. Restored System state backup (Which was latest) 3....

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Can the vid card be replaced (upgraded) on a I6000d? This currently has ATI x300, 64MB and I want to upgrade to 128 MB. I believe that x300 is all this chassis will take. Is this true? Where to get an upgrade card and where are there instructions? I assume the vid card has some proprietary heat...

I configured an Inspiron 6000 using both Home and Small Bus. and there's a $100 difference, small bus being cheaper. They both were configured with the basic 1 yr warranty. I'm curious if there is a difference in warranty support as I recall with Gateway the small bus. hours for certain...

Thinking of getting an Insp 6000 with the dedicated vid card. , Pentium M 1.6 GHz. Was wondering if the fan is really noisy, or if the Centrino systems generally have quieter running. I currently have a Celeron 2.2 GHz laptop (not Centrino) and it is extremely noisy when the fan kicks in. A & L

I'm trying to get a cheap system and the 2400 comes with an equally cheap printer. Of course it says to only use with Dell ink, but is this really true? Thanks for any info A & L Support your local PJ