Posts by Johnmcl7

I always make sure everything is backed up before using Partition Magic, it generally works fine but I have had it screw up a few times. I personally use BartPE for my recovery needs, it's worked well when I've needed it to. John

My brother has a Dell 8600 (not the later c revision), he was trying to hook it up to my Samsung LCD TV to get the audio working using a 3.5mm to 3.5mm cable. The back of the TV is poorly labelled and designed, there's various 3.5mm...

It's the other way round, it's DVI to VGA as the white port is a combined analogue and digital port, the adapter extracts the analogue part. It's standard for desktop graphics cards to come with the DVI-VGA adapter as standard so you...

Oddly enough I've only seen this mentioned by one other person on another forum, it's a great service which I've found works well. John

Try http://www.logmein.com - their free service will allow remote control of one PC and it doesn't need anything else such as firewall configuration. John

The converters do exist but as pointed out they are expensive, unless your TFT is DVI only you're best sticking VGA as recommended. John

I bought my Dell laptops because they were the only ones which offered the spec I wanted, with my 8600 I was after a pentium-m machine with a radeon 9600 - very few companies were offering decent graphics card with pentium-m's at the...

I've been using Opera for years - I bought a PDA that came with a pocket version of Opera, I was so impressed with it I tried the desktop version and never looked back. It's fast to use and it's very polished out of the box, Firefox...

Dell aren't the only ones doing this, it is misleading but very few companies seem to advertise the graphics card with the actual amount of memory. Furthermore, it's a basic graphics card - although miles ahead of integrated cards I...

Lots of 200GB laptop drives http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2765 John