Hi, When shutting down my Dimension 8200, my Dell 20" LCD (2000fp) does not auto stand-by. Instead it displays a window titled 'Check signal cable" and showing 4 colour bars, which slowly moves around the screen a bit like a screen-saver. Hitting the monitor off button gets rid of this, but is...

I am considering replacing an old Dimension XPS 200 (Win95) with a Dimension 8300. I really like Win2K, and don't much like WinXP. I have a legal copy of Win2K -- will it run OK on the 8300? . Bob Schor

Dell seems to be ****ing off people left and right. Does anyone here have any comments about whom, or whom not to use instead?

I have a very sick Inspiron 5000e (out of warranty) which won't start, and wonder if anyone has any idea if there could be anything simple I could try to get it going. For a few weeks, sometimes when loading Windows it would just stop loading and stop where it was. I would have to hold down the...

I tried updating via the web site and administrative update but to no avail. Office XP came with Dell PC in 2001. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks Bob --

I am looking for a case & power supply for the Dimension 4600.

My question is two fold. Is it ok to mount a new 30 gb Maxtor slave drive with the curcut board up in my Dell? and Can you use any power cable to power this drive or does it have to be the power cable that is on the same line as my primary drive.

Hi, I work in Denmark under contract and am planning on purchasing a laptop. Will the warranty still apply through Dell Denmark? What about power supply and changing keyboards? Has anyone else had good/bad experiences? Thanks in advance, Bob

I was wondering if someone could help me understand and figure out which SCSI connector to use on the back of my Dell PowerEdge 2600. It has 1 larger one, that's part of the back panel (same general area as the keyboard and mouse connectors). It's about 4.5mm wide. Then it has 2 smaller ones...

My daughter has totally screwed up her computer with Gazza (spelling?), Morpheus, etc and I am going to format her hard drive and rebuild her system. The computer is has an AMD 1 gig processor and I suppose a Pentium 3 maybe 4. It is about 3 years old. It is not a Dell - some friends and I built...

Got a second hand Dell OptiPlex Gn+ from my company. It has 64K RAM. I bought two 128 memory chips from eBay so I am ready to try to max out its memory to 256. Can someone point me to a link that will show me how to install memory in this machine? I can probably figure it out, but it would be...

Has anyone been able to boot from a USB hard drive? Can you please describe your setup (if yes)? I get a blue screen when using F12 key in order to boot from a copy of Windows XP located on the USB hard drive.

Hey I just got me brand new 8300 p4 with hyper threading ! soes it make much difference if i turn hyper threading on ? and will i even notice a diffrence or will it seem the same ? Thnx

I bought my 2400 from a wholesaler, it was preconfigured with what I wanted except it didn't have a floppy. No problem; the specs say it has an externally accessible 3.5" bay, and I have spare floppies from other machines. So I went to install my floppy. THERE IS NO BAY! A bay is a cage into...

I assume this is a simple question, but one I am stuck on. My son got a new 4500 a couple years ago to go off to school. It came loaded with WinMe and a coupon for XP. He ordered XP with the coupon, but never bothered to upgrade because, believe it or not Me was completely stable, and he had...

i recently got an external 2-1/2 hdd (toshiba mk8025gas) i´d like to connect to my dell "m60 precision" notebook via the usb port. if i put the hd in a usb1.0 casing, no problem; the bus seems to deliver enough power for the hd to work without an external power supply. but if i put the hd in a...

Hi, I reinstalled Windows XP Pro on a new Dimension 2400. After installing all drivers, there seems to be one still missing. Under Device Manager, there appears an unknown "PCI Input Device". I can't seem to find any appropriate driver for this. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Terry

I read a number of reviews of this machine before I bought it and thought I would say a few things for those contemplating purchasing it, or something similarly configured. I jumped on this notebook without a ton of research but I think I lucked out. I got the P4 2.4 gigahertz configuration, 40...

Now the display periodically freezes. CD player stops, no activity but it is still turned on. The display is visible but mouse pointer frozen, keyboard ineffective. If I turn the power off and wait awhile it is ok. Has done this twice. I'd like to know if there's anything I can do to ...

I have a Dell 8250 3ghz with a Western Digital 30gb hard drive (WD300BB). I was looking to upgrade my hard drive. Could any of you point me in the right direction was to what my options are? Anything new on the mark? Thanks.