According to the latest news Gateway is sliding downhill fast. The new warranty on systems purchased after April 1 2004 will only cover parts no labor. Laptops will be mail in only no onsite service. They are also linking tech support to the warranty and if you have, say a 1 year, that is all the...

I own a new Dell E510 desktop PC, running XP Home SP2, DSL connection. Outlook Express 6 SP2 is my email and newsgroup program, and Firefox 1.5.0.4 is my web browser. I have posted the following problem on other forums, but the suggestions given to me didn't resolve the issue. I'd like to...

OK, it's an antique, but I love the ol' beige box, and I want to max out it's RAM. I seem to recall that an XPS-R450 with the A13 BIOS and WinXP SP2 could see and use either 512MB or 768MB of RAM, but there was some disagreement about 768MB. Does anyone know what the max usable amount of RAM is...

Dell surrenders to Muslim extremists: http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/05/03/67109708.shtml?Element_ID=67109708 I'll never buy another Dell.

My new Dell E520 system is on its way so I can replace my aging dinosaur. It's had its problems recently, and when I tried to upgrade from Windows 98 to XP it really messed things up and I had to back out of the whole thing...2 solid days lost fixing that one (it should have upgraded without too...

Every time there is a power outage my Dell 4600C displays an old date. The rather obvious solution seemed to be that CMOS battery needed replaced. So I replaced the battery (3-V CR2032 coin cell). Many months went by until another power outage occurred today. Well lo & behold when the power...

Apparently there is now a new version of AVG (8.0). Anyone try it yet? Mel

A (apparently) motherboard died in my Vostro 1500. The chat guy asks me to remote optical drive, HD and RAM and try powering it on. I got the optical drive out. I got two screws of the HD out. They were tight, and released with a loud ``crack'' when they started turning. Do they...

Hi, I'm going to buy a 24" monitor to be used with my Dell SX-270 PC with 2gb ram and onboard video out. The Dell 2408WFP seems to be the top rated 24" monitor out there. I went to a local best buy to compare monitors but they seemed to have low end monitors on display. (the 25.5 " monitor...

In March I bought a 9400 laptop with a 256 ATI video card. One day about a month later I went into the bios and it reported the card as 128mb. I called Dell tech support - he said it was a 128 MB card with hyperMemory and after leading me through 5 or 6 web pages he showed me that HyperMemory is...

On May 8th 2006 I had ordered and received a basic laptop for my daughter. The unit is a B120, the total price delivered was $482.68 Today I went on the site and because of the anniversary special the price is $586.75. The B120 is not offered. Now it's a B130 with a Celeron M processor 370 (1.5...

1, Do all Dell notebooks have a hidden Dell partition on the C drive? 2. Do Dell notebooks come with the OS on a CD or just a recovery CD? 3. How does Dell partition the hard drive? With large drives, it makes sense to have a bunch of logical drives. -- http://www.standards.com/; See Howard...

Win XP, sp1 and Office XP. I've avoided installing SP2 because I've been so happy with the way my system is functioning that I have steered clear. I also use Outlook and am still able to receive attachments and I don't want to mess that up. I run NAV and Sygate firewall plus an NAT router. And...

I'm thinking about moving up to a Dim. XPS 5, and just noticed that it doesn't come with a serial or parallel port. :( 1. Serial port: there's a 'Serial Port Adapter' that can be bought with the computer. From the documentation on the Dell site, apparently this hooks up to a connector on the...

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I have a less than one-year-old Brother HL1440 B&W laser that is printing streaks on the pages. I cleaned the drum and corona wire, no luck. I will be calling tech support since it's still under warranty. The cost new was about $100 and a new drum and toner is about $185 for OEM. Seems cheaper...

I currently have an excellent 19" Sony LCD - 1280 X 1024. Office Applications are fine since you can adjust the screen zoom. However the Windows desktop is another story. I would say that I couldn't reduce the screen resolution any more. Smaller characters will be just too small. I realize there...

Hi all, I know this subject has been discused before, but does anyone know if the lexmark number 16,17,26, or the number 27 cartridges will fit the dell 720 printer? And is it possible to modify with a small hacksaw!! the top of the cartidge's as the lexmark look very similar, has anyone tried...

Does anyone know how to bypass India when calling Dell's tech support and/or customer service, and go straight back to the USA? I am tired of speaking with these people from India with their broken English. It was not by accident that I purchased a computer from a US company, and although the...

I picked up a Dell Dimension 8400, and when I finally managed to open the case to take inventory, there was, a 10G IDE hard drive, a CD-RW drive the slave on the same cable, and a floppy drive. All were loosely placed in the drive compartments with no way to secure them. I'm not familiar with...