Posts by warnush

by failure, what is happening? does it start clicking and stop reading reliably? does it stop booting correctly? as for the power problems... are you using a surge protector or ups? always the same power jack (same wall/socket) have...

Matshita BD-RE drive - is that a blu-ray drive? have you ever successfully burned a cd/dvd/blu-ray disc? if not, try checking for a new firmware if not, then try rma the drive, it could have been bad if it never worked in the first place.

i hate the low end netgear 614 series, have to manually reboot the machine once a week, and ive got 3 of them (different generations) so i know its just their hardware/software designs and not just the 1 that am having problems with if...

does the 32" turn off when your LCD turns off? has it ever worked correctly with another monitor? what type port are you using svideo, vga, hdmi?

get whichever has the longest warranty - ONSITE (you dont want to have to ship it away and wait 2-3 weeks for them to get around to getting it back to you that being said, i dont know of any laptop you can buy retail that has that...

definitely get as LONG a warranty as you can, as well as ONSITE i will never buy a laptop (or tower for that matter) where i have to "send it off" to be repaired. to me, its like a car, you take it into the shop to get it...

either shadow copies of files, system restore files, or hidden files (if you have hidden files not shown)

yea, a lot of current generation intel (core 2 duo / core 2 quad) can run the cpu and the memory at different speeds. it will be slower than if you had the max speed supported by the bios for both devices, but for dell the performance...

ive got a 1150 checked the recall and i was not included got the laptop from a friend, the hd had died and he was never a fan of it got a new cpu, 1gb ram, and rma'd the hd to dell it works great in ubuntu for surfing the web. wish the...

motherboard (which has the charging and power regulation) could be messed up whether it was plugged in the the wall or only on battery i had a problem w/ my d800 where it would shut-off when i picked it up off a table. contacted dell...