Forum: Dell Computers
August 27th 08, 10:01 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 10
Views: 593
More love from MSFT - IE8
Bob Levine wrote:
Tony Harding wrote:
Microsoft Partner Program
SNIP
Just great. IE is already the bane of my existence and I've only been
doing web design for a couple of...
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Forum: Dell Computers
August 27th 08, 08:45 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 10
Views: 593
More love from MSFT - IE8
Microsoft Partner Program
On August 27, 2008, Microsoft released Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta
2 in English, German, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese. We will release
Beta 2 in an additional 21...
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Forum: Dell Computers
August 26th 08, 04:49 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 12
Views: 440
Time to Format a 500 GB HDD?
Bob Levine wrote:
Nota Clu wrote:
I deleted all partitions except 55MB partition and began a full format
(NTFS) to install XP. After about 20 minutes it had only formatted 21%.
Is this...
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Forum: Dell Computers
August 25th 08, 09:35 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 7
Views: 263
dell 720
JayB wrote:
i have one sitting here, only the front is black.
the side is grey metal.
nice.
if you like a tank.
The top and sides are brushed aluminum, not exactly just gray. The front
is...
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Forum: Dell Computers
August 21st 08, 11:10 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 13
Views: 619
Can I Over Clock this Biatch?
Ben Myers wrote:
You're right. I'll keep it that way. Overclocking with hardware mods is not on
my list of things to learn. One screwup in making the mod and the hardware is
history. ...
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Forum: Dell Computers
August 21st 08, 10:59 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 15
Views: 680
DVD drive: loud buzz on system startup
Timothy Daniels wrote:
I updated the BIOS and the CD/DVD driver on my XPS-M1330
laptop last night. Now whenever the PC is started up, there is a
loud BZZZ-BZZZZT at the start of the BIOS's...
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Forum: Dell Computers
August 13th 08, 09:48 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 10
Views: 704
New notebooks
Leigh wrote:
"WSZsr" wrote in message
...
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20080812PD203.html
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Forum: Dell Computers
August 9th 08, 07:35 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 9
Views: 994
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 23rd 08, 10:47 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 9
Views: 477
Microsoft Tries to Polish Vista
New York Times
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Technology
July 22, 2008, 11:57 am
Microsoft Tries to Polish Vista
By Saul Hansell
MS Vista
Microsoft is really taking the gloves off this time. ZDNet is...
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 14th 08, 02:56 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 42
Views: 1,642
Bad external drive, salvaging data?
Ben Myers wrote:
In other words, you can't win no matter how you play the game... Ben
If you remember Wargames, "the only way to win is not to play". :)
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 14th 08, 09:21 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 8
Views: 688
Event ID 9 iastor on XPS410
Ben Myers wrote:
As a low-cost alternative to Spinrite, may I suggest HDA2? It is free, even.
Use it to examine the SMART attributes, which will tell you the operational
history of the...
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 14th 08, 07:13 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 8
Views: 688
Event ID 9 iastor on XPS410
Tony Harding wrote:
I've had 7 of these in the past 18 days and don't like it at all. I take
"iastor0" to be my boot drive, which is a 500GB Seagate HDD. The boot
time diagnostics say...
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 14th 08, 07:10 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 2
Views: 428
Event ID 51 Disk on XPS410
William R. Walsh wrote:
Hi!
(running the latest Storage Matrix Manager drivers from Dell )
Title: Serial ATA: Intel Matrix Storage Manager Application
Created : Tuesday,...
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 14th 08, 07:08 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 8
Views: 688
Event ID 9 iastor on XPS410
Ben Myers wrote:
As a low-cost alternative to Spinrite, may I suggest HDA2? It is free, even.
Use it to examine the SMART attributes, which will tell you the operational
history of the...
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 13th 08, 05:54 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 2
Views: 428
Event ID 51 Disk on XPS410
I received one of these on 6 July and a cluster of 4 on 8 July. The
drive is a 750GB Seagate HDD. Dell's boot time diagnostics say all HDD's
are fine, plus I ran Seagate's diagnostics (Seatools for...
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 13th 08, 05:39 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 8
Views: 688
Event ID 9 iastor on XPS410
I've had 7 of these in the past 18 days and don't like it at all. I take
"iastor0" to be my boot drive, which is a 500GB Seagate HDD. The boot
time diagnostics say everything is good. I've...
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 11th 08, 06:09 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 42
Views: 1,642
Bad external drive, salvaging data?
Ben Myers wrote:
Well, then, disassemble the drive, remove the platters and smash them to bits
with a sledge hammer. It all depends on how paranoid one can be. With the
Department of...
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 9th 08, 10:39 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 13
Views: 959
"Forced" back to XP, loving it
Bob Levine wrote:
journey wrote:
One of my laptops became corrupted yesterday. I was running Vista
Business on it. I changed a battery but (duh) forgot to plug it in
first, so it was an...
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 9th 08, 06:57 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 4
Views: 518
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 6th 08, 06:04 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 42
Views: 1,642
Bad external drive, salvaging data?
Ben Myers wrote:
Drive over it with your car? Take a sledge hammer to it? Drill a large hole
in it with an electric drill (used by Raytheon a number of years ago)?
I drill 4-5 holes up from...
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 4th 08, 08:15 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 3
Views: 398
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 4th 08, 08:13 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 44
Views: 1,473
OT Please? "F" =Boot Partition-Not C
WSZsr wrote:
No need to unplug it. Just turn it off in the BIOS.
Doesn't work across the board, e.g., works fine on my XPS410 with the
Intel BIOS; but doesn't work on my XPS720 with the nVidia...
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 4th 08, 08:10 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 44
Views: 1,473
OT Please? "F" =Boot Partition-Not C
Brian K wrote:
Playing around with partitions and not having a deep understanding, he
probably did this....
http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/notes.htm#08
Very interesting, thanks, Brian,...
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 3rd 08, 10:26 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 8
Views: 362
Backup Error on Dimension 8400
Juan Kerr wrote:
On Jun 14, 2:40 pm, Ben Myers
wrote:
The stop code of 0x000000&E is not in Microsoft's list of known stop codes, so
you can't rely on...
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Forum: Dell Computers
July 3rd 08, 10:23 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Replies: 5
Views: 425
restore
BillW50 wrote:
In ,
typed on Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:59:36 -0400:
I have a XPS 420 system with vista, i would like to do a...
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