I can't tell exactly what the LEDs are showing... On a fully charged battery, pressing the button yields this... press & release - All 5 LEDs light up - then go out press & hold - All 5 LEDs light up - then blink out - then all 5 blink on - then stay off - ----------------- From the Dell site...

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...

We recently purchased a pair of Optiplex 360's and our Dell sales rep also sold us a couple of Dell card readers that he said would fit although we would have to install them ourselves. I didn't think that would be a problem, so I said sure. well, now that they've arrived, yes the card readers...

I sold my Thinkpad but a few months ago installed and extra 2 gig ram card in it from Crucial I've checked the specs and am pretty sure this ram card could also be used in my Dell Mini 9 which I am keeping So is it true there is only one slot in the Dell Mini? If so I can remove the current 1 gig...

I have an XPS410 with 4GB of memory, an nVidia GEForce 7600 GS video card, 4 SATA HDDs, etc. In the past 24 hours I've had some weird stuff going on, i.e., * both printers disappeared; * ad-aware says I have a virus in the DVDInfoPro install file I downloaded 12/10/07 (AVG ver 8 does not); *...

Is there some reason they're not being rolled out more aggressively? i so don't want to buy a studio xps...

I was wondering abt something Since net books have small keyboard what abt installing some kind of predictive text software like on cell phones? can it be done?

Another person in my office has a Dimension 5150. He said that lately it's been hard to start, and today I saw what he meant. Pressing the power button causes it to flash about once per second. No recognizable sequence to the flashes, just a steady flashing. I was able to get it to boot by...

I've recently purchased the V505 printer from Dell and found it to be a fairly nice printer. I have however come across an interesting issue with the unit and my 9200. Whenever I start the 9200 with the printer attached (via USB) the 9200 freezes just after BIOS load and prior to OS startup. ...

I have three questions: 1. Is this a multi-layer motherboard? 2. What is the value of zener PZD1, 57 2, green band, violet band and wider red band? 3. What I believe is an inductor, PL4, seems not to be in the circuit. I suspect a through hole open. There is a trace going nowhere directly off of...

Here are some issues that I have been unable to get resolved with Dell... 1. A wierd scratchy noise coming from the left rear corner. 2. Selecting links even though I haven't pressed the left mouse button. I can here the familiar click, like I clicked on it, even though I didn't. 3. Selecting...

I have a Dimension E520 with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 processor (2.13 GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 1066MHz FSB). My motherboard's chipset is G965 and I have the latest BIOS version (2.4.0) that is listed on Dell's website. Is it possible to upgrade to a Core 2 Quad Q6700 processor? If so, should I...

If anyone needs a coupon for one of these, I got one by email to spare. It says 15% off. First come basis and just email me. I'm not charging for it but I don't want to indiscriminately post the coupon code here because Dell may not like this if they view it here and the coupon says for it can...

I have an ATI Radeon X600 256MB card in a Dell Dimension 9100 PC running Windows XP Pro SP3. I'm using the original driver version 6.14.10.6534 dated 4/14/2005. I just picked up a 22" wide screen monitor that has native resolution 1680x1060. This page...

Has anyone figured out how to get the touch panel backlights to illuminate without touching them? Pretty useless to have them light only *after* you touch them. Mike

Dell Inspiron 1420, one year old. 2 gigs ram, Vista Home Premium. It's been unused for two weeks and when I started it up it installed the February updates and restarted. It now comes up with: configuring updates: stage 3 of 3 - 0% complete. Then it says shutting down and shuts down. Then it...

Hi -- I tried to resolve this through Dell online Tech Support chat and got nowhere ... I have three different Dell Dimension L-class PCs. They are different models but are all Pentium III/Celeron machines with what looks like modified Intel motherboards. I cannot get into the BIOS on any of...

WHen I plug in my Sony camera, I no longer get the camera wizard, but rather the directory of the camera memory. How do I get the wizard back? I believe I lost it when it came up and took over characters from the window I was typing in. --

Using WinXP SP3, can HDs larger than 137 GB be used in this computer? I've seen Yes and No answers in Google.

For some reason when I go to youtube I get a message - "Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player." I downloaded Flash player and I still get the message above. Youtube played fine today and this evening. But tonight I keep geetin the message...