I have been running a Dell XPs T 700r since October 99 (7 years) with no problems. It's on 98% of the time. Needless to say, I back-up regularly. Curious on what the average life of a system is or if anyone has one been running one longer. Bob

Ran across this info, does it seem about right? http://www.visitinggeeks.com/press_room_heatwave.html A typical computer with a 15-21 inch LCD monitor will be well protected with a 500VA UPS. A larger monitor and extra peripherals such as powered speakers, cable modem, wireless router or...

I'm looking for a PC w/at least a 3.4Mhz processor, 1 Gig RAM, 128 Meg Vid. RAM and 80 gig hard drive. A 2nd 10k RPM 80 gig HD would be nice but I think it'd be cheaper to by that on aftermarket & install it. I'd also want a 17 or 18" LCD. I'm looking to spend $1400ish. The machine will be used...

I recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 8500 for my son. Now he's home between college terms and ready to move over to it. But we both think we should partition the hard drive before installing much. It is 60 gb. (I think we'll divide it APPROX. 15 GB for C, 15 GB for programs and games, and 30 GB...

I tried to power on my Dell 4550 and it won't turn on. Power supply doesn't power up at all. We had a storm last night but it was plugged into a surge protector. I tried to put and old power supply from an old Dell XPS 600. I know it's not the right one but I wanted to see what would...

Do any of the Dell laptops provide 2 bays for hard drives like the desktops do? (I'm looking for an easy way to clone a laptop hard drive.) *TimDaniels*

Last night I performed a Defrag using Defraggler. This morning I started (Windows) Error Checking . A few minutes later I decided I needed to stop the utility so I could retrieve a recipe. I saw no way to stop the procedure. So (sigh) I did the only thing I could...I turned off the...

I have IE 6.x at home and IE 7.0 at work. I prefer IE to Firefox and I do NOT want to use IE 8.0 at this time. But I also prefer the look and feel of IE 6.x compared to 7.0. However, I have also heard that I should upgrade to at least IE 7.0 for security reasons. Is this true? I still always...

I have installed ME on my D3000 and the dell website does not have the Chipset drivers why is this, i do not want to use XP, Is it possable that Windows ME does not work on the DIMENSION 3000???

I received the following from my Dell Rep. Hopefully this will clear up a lot of the questions I've heard in this group for the last few weeks. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To my valued customer from your Dell Account Specialist: I wanted to send you...

I just bought DELL Inspiron with Windows XP pre-installed. But I want to install Windows 2000 instead and get rid of Windows XP. Is it ok to do that? What will be the drawbacks? What if I want to restore back to Windows XP later? There is no recovery CD in the package, but just press F11 key in the...

"Who knows what further details of not only your directory structure it may be exposing, but maybe the entire contents of the files inside those directories?" Shouldn't you find out first, before making accusations (and cross-posting them.) And what does this have to do with Dell? Ted Zieglar

My new E193FP went Pfftt. It happens. Electronics die. Called Dell. Customer rep on the phone in less than 2 minutes. Transferred me to tech support. Waited less than a minute. Answered a few questions about the monitor and what I'd done to test it out. Waited patiently for a total of about 20...

Seems that Dell has phased out parallel ports on the Desktop PCs. The 4700 is gone now, and the 5100 and 9100 are unencumbered by parallel ports (and other things). I called Dell today to ask and they basically told me I should just buy a new printer too, because my printer will probably not work...

I bought a Dell Inspiron 8200 1 year ago, two year extended warranty. The fan is going out on it so I phoned to find out where to send it in for repairs. I called tech support. 1st tech from India had me remove my hard drive, remove my cd rom, and take off all the other removable plates from the...

I just received a replacement wireless mouse and keyboard for units that failed to work properly. My God, the lack of quality is appalling. The only thing that properly describes them is cheaply made and even more cheap in appearance. Fortunately, this computer will not get hard use, because,...

I bought a Dell E510 about two months ago. About a week ago my DVD/CD R/W drive gave-out. No power seems to be getting to the device, it's just dead. I have contacted Dell Service several times but have received zero response. My question, as you guys seem to have a lot of experience with Dell,...

Suz: Go RAID 5 and SCSI and you will not have the artificial barriers of IDE hard disk controllers. Plus you a very reliable and very fast disk sub-system. Dave "Suzeann Loomis" wrote in message

I waited 8 weeks for a $100 rebate check. I called, they said to wait another month and call again. On Nov. 10th, I made that call and they said they would send another check in two weeks but in the meantime if check #351 came, not to cash it because it had been canceled. Sure enough, 4 days...

XPS/Dimension 630i. This came with a 600GB HDD and I added a 1.5TB HDD. The 600 came with Vista and I created a 100GB partition on the 1.5TB for Windows 7. I now want to place 7 on the 600GB and move Vista to the 100GB partition. I've imaged both the 600GB and 100GB separately using Acronis. ...