Posts by stugpanzer

Excellent....Thanks for the input!

Interesting topic. I have a 9400 and thought it was limited to 2gb, but this thread makes me curious. Can the Inspiron 9400/1705 have one stick of 1gb and the other at 2gb? Would that be okay? If the system will only recognize...

Go with complete care! It is the best bet.....You can throw the damn thing out of a moving car and they will cover it! my company uses it and it is the reason we buy Dells....Well worth it. My 9300 that I bought in March of 2005 was...

When I reloaded, I left the 40mb partition as I wanted to retain the Diags from the F12 button upon booting. I killed all other partitions. I re-installed XP Pro and took all available space (except for the 40mb). I loaded all...

Ok guys, I got the XP CD, Resource CD and Media Direct CD from Dell. This is what I did and what I discovered. I reloaded my os and left 1.4 gb disk space for Media Direct. The Media Direct docs says it needs just over 1.3 gb. After...

Free! See the following thread.... http://www.notebookforums.com/showth...ight=replacing

Just got off the phone with Dell ordering my CD's which includes the OS, the Resource CD and a Media Direct installation CD and I believe I understand how this works. When I wipe the drive, I will install the OS and drivers. Then I use...

The adapter as shown in the link provided by Krazyskier will NOT work. I have a 300 watt power supply and it trips out when I connect my 9300 or 9400 to it. You will need the specific regulated power supply and will need to spend the...

Quote: Originally Posted by JaxChris Actually, I think the Media Direct works off of a solid state memory device on the motherboard... similar to the way the HP alternative works. MediaDirect shouldn't spin up the hard...

You can use any combination of two mintors. That is you can use your Laptop monitor and either the VGA or DVi or you can use the external VGA and DVi, but your laptop monitor will become disabled.