Posts by The Boosh

In the end I reflashed the drive back to its original state, and it installed fine. Thanks for the advice.

I had a crack at installing Windows Vista Beta 2 on my Inspiron 9100 with a NEC-6500a drive (flashed to region-free and to burn all kinds of DVDs), but when I tried to install it, it came with a message saying "A required CD/DVD...

I'm going to be reinstalling XP soon anyway, so I was thinking about installing Vista just to give it a go. Presumably this doesn't install over the top of the Dell stuff (tiny partition with technical things on it) I'll need to...

There isn't a problem with audio at all - it plays WMA, WAV, and MP3 without any problems. Sorry, but how would I find out what my 'core frequencies' are?

Everything in the media players and in the display settings seems set up to use the graphics card for playing video. I've just installed the latest Omegas but it hasn't made any difference. The processor maxes out at other times,...

Hi, I've got an Inspiron 9100 with a 3.2ghz P4, but video files (regardless of whether I play them through Nero Showtime, PowerDVD, WMP, or BS Player) always max out the processor and make the fan annoyingly loud. I've tried messing...

Hi, I've got an Inspiron 9100 with (officially) a NEC 6100 drive in it, which supports DVD+R discs only. I flashed it some time ago using the Dangerous Brothers firmware to a 6500A. It is now fully multiregion and Nero Infotool...

Anyone?

I've currently got two power bricks for an Inspiron 9100, but only one cable to link the bricks to a power supply. I'd like to buy another cable like this but I'm not really sure what I need. What would I need to search for on eBay for...

Does anyone have any experience of hacking a NEC 6100A drive? I found a firmware flasher on the website below, but I'm not sure which file to install: http://tdb.rpc1.org/#ND6100A Any help would be much appreciated - also if...