Well, I guess this is one of the sillier questions. Can an optical mouse be safely used on an Inspiron 2650? Thanks

I have a Dell Poweredge 6300 that boots and display's info on the monitor. It starts off with the BIOS, and then it says press F2 to enter the Setup (BIOS). I hit F2, and it says entering Setup. It then continues to do the memory test, and passed the memory test for the amount of memory I have (2...

reads like you've already decided "j carter" wrote in message ... Posting this question here is probably like asking the cat to guard the goldfish bowl, but here goes. I'm having a hard time deciding between a new Gateway 700X...

I just purchased a Dell Dimension 8300 with a 2.6 GB processor. Holy cow, it gets pretty loud at times. I already phoned Dell and they immediately came to my house replaced the processor fan and motor, but the same thing is happening with the replacement. I previously had a Dell Dimension (with...

What is the difference between the two displays on the 8500. Why would i want one over the other? Needs are alot of text, medium graphics, internet browsing & streaming video, medium gaming. Is the wide aspect display that good?

Who makes Dell's true Mobil Wireless Router? Is the wireless card it compatible with all standards - a,b,g?

I've recently upgraded the hard drive on my Dell Inspiron 8200. How do I rebuild the diagnostic partition that was on the original drive? I know It's not so important, and the diagnostics are on the provided CD, but I'm really curious about this... On the Dell website, I've not find any answer to...

I am selling my Inspiron 5000 soon, and intend to wipe the HDD with a high strength file shredder, and then re-install the software to "as delivered". I have read posts in this group where people say they routinely wipe the HDD clean and re-install on their new PC's in order to get better...

On Saturday June 7 while I was on my computer we had a sudden hard rain. I went to the back door to look out and see how much rain was falling. I just got to the open door and was looking outside when lightning struck the middle palm tree in a big ball of fire. It practically skinned the...

In this unfortunate world I have a friend who has kindly locked the bios on my Laptop. How would I go about resetting the password / Bios so I can boot my machine once more. Thanks in advance

Have you run the memory diagnostics? Sounds like you might have a bad DIMM and SP1 tests it. Tom "Jeff Berk" wrote in message ... I'm running a 1 1/2 yr. old 4400 with XP Home. Every time I try to update to SP1 or now SP1a, The computer...

I just purchased a Dell 4600 and upgraded to the E171FPb flat panel display. The display looks great except that the top of the screen is somewhat dimmer than the bottom of the screen. I've tried all different angles and heights, and still the top of the screen is (slightly) darker than the...

Hello everyone, I have an Inspiron 8100 and I have currently a HD of 20 GB. I will get soon a new additional HD of 20 GB that i can put instead of the floppy disk. On the first HD i have a partition with WIN XP and a partition with Mandrake 9.1. As i have at the moment some problems with my Win...

I just received an Inspiron 600M today, and am disappointed with the performance, on usual tasks such as just booting MS Word. My Inspiron 4100 w 1.2ghz PIII-M processor and 1G RAM opens Word, Excel, ... whatever ... lightning fast. The same programs on the new 600M, however, take a lot longer to...

Just thought I'd see if anyone else out there has run into a problem with XP Pro on the Inspiron 1100. I'm also going to trash Dell's tech support a little, so if that bothers you don't read this. I've included the solution here, but didn't tell Dell yet (I'll wait and see if they call back). We...

Hi! Anyone have this wallpaper i lost, my dell crash last night. Thanks!!!

For a notebook what is the difference between the Mobile Intel Pentium 4 Processor - M @ 2.6 and the Mobile Intel Pentium 4 Processor@ 3.06. The latter has a 533 MHz bus, but Dell features the M processor on the higher end 8500 but isn't it slower?

Personally I think they were just afraid of running out of 4xxx numbers. So they cut the gap in half. Next one might be 4625. Tom "Ogden Johnson III" wrote in message ... (Michael) wrote: dell...

Dell 4600 512 Mb. Ram 60 Gb. Hard Drive Win XP Home Edition Received my new Dell a few days ago. Decided to format and dual-boot win98. Using Partition Magic Ver.7.01 off rescue disks, (does not work in a window).

I received an e-mail offer today that claimed I could buy an OEM version of Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for $44.95, OEM version only, no books, manuals, or packaging. I have bought OEM versions before, notably Norton Anti-Virus for about half the price as sold in a retail outlet, i.e. Best Buy or Office...