I cannot find support info (manual, etc.) for the Dimension 4800. If you wander the click-maze of selecting the system it gets to the 4700's and then jumps past the 4800, as if it didn't exist. Lemme know if anyone else sees this. I'm looking for memory specifications.

A new (refurbished) Mini 910, in transferring my working files over via LAN, is reading them at a snail's pace. The LAN connector light flashes once or twice a second instead of the usual continuously; both ends of the connection in the Task Manager indicate about .05% utilization of the...

I have a nvidia 8800 GTS and a nvidia 7900 GTX in my box. WinXP SP2, Dell XPS desktop, circa 2006. I am currently driving them both with old 97.92 drivers. Nvidia recommends I install 180.48 for the 8800 and 178.24 for the 7900.

My Trend Micro PC-Cillin is about to expire and renew automatically at the end of December. Is PC-Cillin considered a good anti-virus package right now or has it been surpassed? Anything better that updates reliably and is half way effective? Thanks!

Dell Inspiron 530 Once you "Restore to factory settings" is "Restore to factory settings" gone or is it still there to use again? TIA

For months it has taken two or three tries to boot my Dell computer with Vista every time I turn the unit on -- often with extended periods when it is trying to repair itself. The IT people where I work have not fixed the problem, so I have just learned to live with it. However, now the system...

Recently there have been several postings here about problems networking computers with Vista. The following URL is a Windows Secrets issue describing the problem: http://windowssecrets.com/comp/081211/ If you do not already subscribe to Windows Secrets, either free or paid version, it is...

I just received my dell studio slim this morning, I really like it so far. I had one or 2 wallpaer installed that looked really nice. Dark simple. I formated with the vista dvd and lost the wall paper. Are they on the recovery partition? I can't seem to find them there. I would like to find them if...

I have a Dimension 9100 with ATI Radeon x600 256MB and video driver version 6.14.10.6534 dated 04/14/2005. I have never updated the video drivers because I haven't run into any situation that required it. I'm curious if anyone else out there has this combination and if you've updated the video...

I am going to put this out there, because it is unlike anything I have heard prior, and don't know where to begin. Customer calls me and says that files/programs are disappearing from his hard drive (even system files). My first thought is hardware failure. However, he states it is also...

I have an 8200 which suddenly cant recognise its 90 watt charger. It pretends on POST that the charger isnt 90W and says it can only operate at 70w and therefore in battery optimised mode which is treackly slow. I don't believe there is anything wrong with the charger. It doesnt overheat or...

Can an additional PCI SCSI card be installed in the 670, in addition to the integrated U320 SCSI buss, to run external scanner, etc? I read somewhere in the docs that only the integrated SCSI can function at one time. The box has two U320 SCSI HDs. -Ed

Maybe I'm behind the times, but I've just had a look at the 'new, improved' Dell Community Forums. They're awful! In the first place, the number of Forums has been reduced, so each group now covers many more topics than before. Also, the Advanced Search options have been dumbed down, so now...

morning, My desk is in "U" shape, computer being on one side, printer, scanner, camera being on the other side, while the "bottom" is used as the front desk...... USB cable is then "very long" between the two sides, a 5 meters piece extended with a 1 meter pieces of cable. (I know it is out of...

what's dell's current policy on returning monitors with a bad or stuck pixel? unconditional? what about one from the refurbished section? thanks

Added a T8300 in an Inspiron 1318 (=Vostro 1310) to the list. It has a 3MB L2 Cache compared with the 4MB Cache on the T7300, making it slower even though the clock is a good deal faster. I=inspiron V=vostro CPU and ram intensive benchmark, no disk accesses 144.26 sec 2493 MHz V1500 Intel(R)...

Toying with Vista waiting for the XP Home CD to arrive; how do you get wireless beyond Local Access Only? Packets have been sent and received (a couple thousand), it claims to be connected (non broadcasting WEP) but refuses to see, or be seen by, other (XP) machines on the network. Security...

I thought to ask this question here because I understand that Dell customizes BIOSes (which makes sense.) During POST the BIOS is apparently checking something in my DVD drive because the drive emits a brief 'grinding' sound. I've always heard this sound when my Dimension 4500 boots, but I...

-- I was in Costco yesterday and while the wife was looking at jewelry, I was cruising through the TVs and the PCs. I saw that they had a Dell machine (forget the model #), but the thing that caught my eye was the fact that Visa Home Premium 64 bit version was installed! I did not expect to...

IIRC there was some discussion here WHS 6-12 months ago. ------------------------------------------------------------- Whatever Happened to Windows Home Server? A couple of Thursdays ago, I took aim at a handful of risky, uncertain or unproved technologies that I thought unworthy of your...