Posts by scott_4508

If anyone else has this problem, perhaps disabling your mouse from waking the computer from standby will fix it. It was the culprit in my case. Stupid computers...

To make matters worse, sometimes it doesn't go into standby which really pisses me off when I expect it to. Anything I can do atleast to make sure it goes into standby, with the light thing secondary?

You know how when you put an 8600 into standby the power light pulses on off slowly? Well, mine doesn't do that anymore. It used to, but now it flashes rather quickly in standby. I want it back the old way. I don't recall when the...

anyone have a problem getting their computer to go into standby? I have it set to go after 1 hr of inactivity in speedswitch (which sets it in xp's power management) but it stays on. The only way I get it to standby is by closing the...

*edit 2* I found the IBM information and downloaded it and ran it and it told me the same thing...no update needed. I take their word for it, but the drive still clicks. Its not after periods of low power though, just all the time. ...

yeah thats what the specs are. for some reason though, mine doesn't actually burn cds at 24x but closer to about 10x on 48x media. Go figure. guess its one of those things...

why are they not needed? isnt image burn in still a serious prob with lcds?

a tech tried to offer me compensation in the form of one of those ****ty lexmark ripoffs but I declined because i'm almost positive ink cartridges must be purchased directly through dell. What a pain. of course, if its free, any...

dell accepts all forms of payment up to and including the computers face value in stamps. They used to offer $50 for getting a preferred account so be sure you hassel them for it.

I picked up an HP 1210 from Target the other day for about $80. Its one of those scanner, printer, copier ones. Now I'm sure its not the best printer ever, but considering all you'll print out are term papers etc you don't need a high...