Posts by sharpshot

Hi just wanted to let people out there know how little Dell sales representives understand about their products, I was intrested in the m1730 but was unimpressed with the 2, 8700m in sli mode, so I called Dell and spoke to Mr Wasif...

Great posting wcbryant ive been trying to get sound from vista since it was in beta . I too assumed the modem was built in with the sound card attached to the motherboard wished id been bothered to look anyway thanks so much its...

Ill keep this short .......No it wont run without the gpu

Hi my 9800dt does the same, it does it in xp and vista so I know its not software,mine started doing this after a motherboard and gpu upgrade, I know have a go7800 card. I think it could be caused by my power brick as i have read that...

Hi Kernel, I didnt do anything special it just worked, sorry i cant be of anymore help

Have you set it up as a raid array if you have make sure your bios is set for raid not eide then you will have to load the promise raid drivers by pressing f6 when you install xp the drivers will have to be put on a floppy drive so you...

Hi Nick theres alot of posts about these symptons including some from my experience, these laptops seem to be plagued by allsorts of serious problems I had exactly the same problem you have now and im afraid to say that your laptop...

Hi Nettrix I did exactly what you propose, about 6 months ago I know the thermal output of the 6x series is lower than the 5x series but in the real world I didnt notice any difference on the temps, also you cant utilise the 64bit as...

Hi Jerry, if you just want to disable the windows start up sound, all you have to do is click start ..settings..control panel ..sounds and audio devices, then click on sounds tab. scroll down to start windows, select none for the sound...

Thanks for that bit of info starcub I didnt know that 9880 and 9980 systems had the same sound card and that theres work It does sound more likely now that our problem is hardware or maybe a bios update, and i agree with you that its...