Posts by dellbert

Quote: Originally Posted by cyberma007 Here is my mushkin That's what I was afraid of. Because your RAM is running at the higher clock, it's also running at higher latency. Dell doesn't give us any way to...

Maybe somebody who has this stuff running at 667 could post their latency timings according to CPU-Z and memory bandwidth according to SI Sandra. I'm just using my old Transcend sticks from my 9300. Timings are 4-4-4-11 at 533MHz,...

Congrats, you've discovered the latest in technological advances. The new mini PCI express card.

Dell Spare Parts doesn't sell external drives, so it's more likely just an OEM internal desktop drive. Ask the sales droid for a part number and full description.

Both of those partitions are useful. Dell will have you run the diagnostic checks if you call tech support with a problem, and the restore partition is useful when you sell your machine and want to restore it to the original...

If you hit F12 at boot, you can run the built-in diagnostics from that partition. If you hit ctrl-F11 at boot, you can restore your system to its original state from that 4GB ghost partition.

Dell has two different versions of Media Direct. The old one just boots windows, and the new one boots a dedicated PowerDVD thing. The 9300 comes with the old version, and the 9400 comes with the new version.

That 64MB partition is for the diagnostics. Dell has two versions of Media Direct. The old one just boots up Windows, and the new one boots up an dedicated version of PowerDVD. I don't know if it's possible to retrofit the newer...

It works for manual fan control, but don't trust the temp readings. @tinman, download coolbits or rivatuner, and you'll be able to read the GPU temp.

The biggest difference is in the stickers. 9300 says Pentium-M, and 9400 says Core Duo.