Hello I have a new Dell 3000 (purchased in march) and just recently my mouse doesn't run smoothly -- Sometimes when I go left to right -- it stops - I have to pick up the mouse, set it down and try to drag it again --- I've inspected the ball on the bottom and it doesn't appear to be dirty -- any...

Hello, I do hope someone can help me otherwise my Dell will be flying through the nearest window pretty sharpish. I purchased a dell dimension 3000 a couple of months ago - no problems apart from a sometimes tipsy screen. Today I switched on and was told I had 'dirty' files. Tried to do a system...

"Leythos" wrote in message ... I would like to replace the 2.4ghz Celeron CPU in 5 Dimension 2400 systems we have - anyone know what the max it can handle is? -- -- remove 999 in order...

XP Pro on 366Mhz and 128MB of memory? Your looking to do anything fast right? And that 3.2GB hard drive isn't going to go very far these days. $59.99 might be pushing it considering this thing is as old as the hills and probably one startup from giving up the ghost. Save your money for something...

Hi can anyone help me out here I need to do an insurance valuation for a friend and I just need to know the origianl selling price for a Dell Latitude CPi A with 400meg cpu 128 meg ram a rough guide will do and approx date when they stopped making these TIA

Dell website says: Flat Panel Accessories: AS500 and AS500PA Flat Panel Speaker Bars Brings full multimedia support and ELIMINATES THE NEED FOR SEPARATE DESKTOP SPEAKERS reducing clutter on the desk and improving cable management. My 8400, with SoundBlaster Audigy and 5:1 speaker system, came...

My GX200 insists on putting my card reader, when attached, at D: and moving up the CDROM to E. Can I change the allocation to put the reader, and my portable HDD, at E, F, etc., keeping the CDROM at D? My old Gateway did this. As it is, it's a minor niggle but it means my shortcuts don't...

Voltages on dell inspiron 3800? I lost the power supply and want to just hook up another one I have (non dell). THere are 3 pins on the power supply connector. The plastic shell is shaped like a capital letter "D" with 2 small keys. Anybody got a volt meter and can tell me the voltages

Yes it's enabled (from day one). My Dimension 8400 is 2 months old. I've tried no less than 6 times to restore my computer with restore points ranging from a week earlier to the previous day. Each time it reports incomplete...no changes were made. Hummmm, could I have disabled something in...

I purchased Stufit Software because a guy I deal with likes to use it and sends stuff to me compressed in that format. Not being totally aware of what it did I selected to option to do a normal install which included integration with MS OFFICE. This error on my part meant that when I sent Excel...

Recently I thought the batteries in my laptop had died as they simply will not hold a charge. I resigned myself to using it on AC power rather than costly battery replacement (BTW...are there 3rd party batteries for this laptop rathen than OEM Dell?). Now I find that with the batteries inserted...

Hello all, I'm a small computer business owner in a fairly rural area where computer usage is really growing fast. I've had several experiences lately where many customers have told me they have called Dell to get a certain part replaced or repaired on site, but that the tech's either never...

Speaking of my old gamer. I bought a promise 100tx controller card to try and get my old motherboard to recognize more than 130 gigs of my 250 gig drive. I haven't been able to get it to work on an old XPS400 upgraded to P31000. I got the drivers to install OK but it still wont recognize...

Hey, I have 512 mb ram with my inspiron 9300 (2x256)... I am looking to upgrade to 1gb (2x512 or even 1x1gb)... what ram should i install for optimal compatibility? thanks rob

Hi, I just bought a used Dell Latitude D600 and it has a password in Bios that will not allow me to change any settings .Can anyone tell me a backdoor Password that will unlock this feature? Thank you

He's following me around to other groups on which I post. It's amazing. I don't understand people that are such losers that they spend time on the internet stalking people. Read book. Go to the movies. Screw up all the courage you muster and ask a girl out on a date. Or ask a boy if that's...

Anyone running a Radeon x850xt Premium Edition on a Dell Dimension 8400 under windows xp. And if so, did you purchase the card from Dell or from a non-Dell source. Would love to get some feedback on this people. TIA ricardo

Got a Ispiron 6000 with XP Media version XP. However I wanted XP pro. No rpoblem just installed my old copy of XP pro from the old laptop which now runs Knoppix. Here is the problem though, saved the drivers from the hard drive before fdisking the drive, but there is a driver missing for some PCI...

Dell has the following option available when configuring a Dimension 9100: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition backup CD Is this the Microsoft OS CD that they used to include, but then you had to ask for by telephone?

Well as I mentioed in a thread about a week ago, I wanted ot pick up a cheap ultralight (laptop 3lbs.) for just word processing, web surfing, and throwing in my backpack and not worrying about it getting stolen. I ended up going wit Dell Lat. LS, and so far I am very impressed with the machine. ...