Posts by Clint

Keep in mind, when it comes to "screwing a big company like Dell" is that they pass the screwings (is that a word?) on to the rest of their customers. Prices will just go up to compensate. Clint

Forgive me for being dense, but don't the HD's spin almost constantly? There's a setting on the Power control panel to turn them off after a certain amount of time, but it's not like a CD where it spins up every time you access it,...

Hell, I've re-installed the OS from scratch before installing the new drivers (including reformatting the HD). I've used the Driver Cleaner software from Driver Heaven to un-install, and I've un-installed from the "Add/Remove...

Been there, done that. But right now, I'm just trying to get it to work with the drivers that came with the unit itself, and off of the Dell website. Shouldn't need to use the utility for those, should I? I've also tried the Omega...

If I update my graphics drivers to the ones on the CD Dell sent me, or the ones I download off the web, the display on my brand new 9100 stops working. An external monitor continues to display an image, but the LCD won't. If I...

I didn't think Dell sold any 5400 rpm drives. According to their website, it's either 4200 or the one 60GB 7200 rpm. Clint

Just got my Inspiron 9100 yesterday. Right out of the box, got no display whatsoever. Funny music playing in the background, could see the HD light flashing, but nothing on the monitor. Weird, I think. But I was going to install...

In particular, let us (me) know how the mouse goes. I'm thinking of getting one of these for my 9100. Looks like it would be cool, having a wireless mouse without having to have a dongle to tether it to. Clint

Woo-hoo! My laptop is FINALLY in Canada! If I'm really lucky, it'll get here on Friday, since tomorrow's a national holiday. Then I can play with it on the weekend! SWEET! And I'm out of the office on Monday and Tuesday, so it may...

I want to run Server 2003 because some of the tools we use for software development require SharePoint to be running (MBS Business Portal, to be precise), which requires W2K3, as far as I know. So I'll also be running IIS, and SQL. ...