Posts by BillyRay

I must be missing something here... I thought I'd see how well my system ran, so installed 3dMark06 yesterday. I've got an Inspiron 9100 (A06 BIOS), 3Ghz, 9800/256Mb ATI card, 1Gb Ram, and 60Gb/7200RPM HDD... so nicely specced...

Yes - my disks are 8x. They burn perfectly well at 8x in another burner I have. The package say "8x", too. Dell have no firmware upgrade for the drive, and are still messing me around on this. I really am beginning to get...

I'm really starting to get quite annoyed with Dell. My Inspiron 9100 shipped with only a +R drive, when I ordered a +/- drive... and when the replacement arrived, I find that it will not burn at 8x (I don't even get the option to select...

Quote: Originally Posted by informant hi guys, had some problems with using an external mic lately. Me too. I tried using the stereo mic from my Sony webcam, and had similar issues. I found that if I pulled...

Quote: Originally Posted by fitzabombr Our sounds are different. I think they're the same sound. It is definately a high-pitched chirping, not a clicking. I mentioned the HDD BIOS fix purely because I wondered...

Quote: Originally Posted by Hellfire Where can you get a brand new I9100? From Dell. I bought mine through dell.co.uk about 3 months back - and they're still selling them today (just a bit...

It's really strange - I've reinstalled i8kfangui, told it to re-read the temp, but still it's not working. I can only assume that something related to the A05 BIOS update - but it's strange how it took a few days to break Dan

Quote: Originally Posted by fitzabombr Is this normal? Lately, my indicator lights(hard drive indicator below right hand side of lcd) make a chirping sound that goes along with accessing of the hard drive. It's...

I had the same issue as of today... And three days ago I updated my BIOS from A03 to A05, and also installed the latest Dell Video drivers and BIOS. I wonder why it took a few days for the temp thing to break?

Quote: Originally Posted by whackamac This means that these drivers do not have the 256mb fix I've got a 256Mb 9800 in my 9100... After reading this, I searched around for what the 256Mb problem was, but...