Posts by daniellt

Thanx DELL-Machina, Notebook was bought through Dell and have spoken to Dell Europe by first calling their technical support dept to report the problem. They passed me on to their parts department. The guys there seem to not want...

Thanks 4 Ur comments sakor1... I managed to get hold of a ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 to try on the 8500 from a friend and it booted up just fine. I didn't mod it just tried it to see if it was the card for sure. Problem I have...

Does anyone out there have any idea's where I go from here? Thinking of breaking down the 8500 for parts including: WUXGA 1920x1200 A Gig pc2100 DDR266 memory (2x 512Mb) 24 speed CD/RW internal writer 30Gb Fujitsu HDD @ 4200...

WUXGA for sure. Having just lost my Inspiron 8500 I'm looking at either a similar spec LCD or else looking at fitting the 8500s LCD into new machine. Its an awsum screen hard to live without...

Hi there everyone, 1st post so here goes! Few days ago I tried to update the video bios on Geforce 4200 to go 64Mb on my Inspiron 8500. I was using the latest available bios from the Dell Europe support Web site. I was trying to...