Posts by Tim Sloper

Bigredinmass, Keep in mind that SP2 is still in beta so it is up to you to decide if you want to use it. I personally believe RC2 is stable enough for anything but mission critical applications. I haven't had any problems with...

Why not upgrade to the 60GB 7200 drive and put the old drive in an external enclosure for backup purposes? Everything will benefit from the drive as opposed to just your games. Tim

I think I'm going to purchase this... http://www.semsons.com/vasaccasacm.html Tim

HD: Start->Control Panel->System->Hardware->Device Manager->Disk Drives You should see HTS726060M9AT00 listed as a drive. Sticker: Centrino represents the Pentium M / Wireless combination. You will not get a...

Dell has messed things up on the BT drivers in the last couple of weeks. Currently A02 is the official website release. A05 was the official release but was pulled in the last two weeks due to field issues. My driver CD came with A03...

I called Dell Parts today to obtain a storage case for the modular devices but I was told they do not have anything other than laptop cases. Does anyone know of a decent solution for protection the CD drive when I have the modular...

Nevermind... I gave XP SP2 RC2 a shot and it is working very well. Tim

Dell has pulled the latest BT driver and has reverted back to A02. My driver CD has A03 but A05 actually worked the best for me. If anyone has a copy of this and has a ftp server would you mind e-mailing me a link to...

Today I was doing a full reinstall and I downloaded all of the drivers for my 8600 ahead of time. I noticed that when I installed the BT drivers I could not connect to my MX900. After some checking I found that some of the drivers being...

I disagree that it is a bad HD. XP will do alot of things in the background even thought you may not be running any applications yourself. Indexing will definitely be busy in the background if you have it turned on. As for the clicks...