This is one thing that has been bugging me for a while. Is there any real correlation between model #'s on dell's machines or is it all just marketing?
Well, I know that voltage != power usage, but the HD takes 5v and the memory in here uses 2.5 last I looked. in any case, it wouldnt hurt to do some benchmarking to see if going the ramdisk route would make a substantial increase in...
So Ive been trying to set up a resonable power scheme to use my laptop as an mp3 player (w/ winamp of course) and keep battery usage to a minimum. my first guess was to use a fairly large chunk of the 768mb of ram (on average 200mb to...
screw the NFL and NBA. REAL men play baseball. //flameon
in any case, I would have to go with chevyrulz on this one and say that I would rather not have my laptop plastered with ugly decals. in fact thats why I went with this inspiron...
i think #2 may be the gpu. I do know that i9kfangui reads fan 2 as running much slower than #1 even when #1 is in slow mode.
anyways, i just went through the options and set all options related to fan 2 to "no change" and it...
yeah. I can control fan1 just fine through that (as a matter of fact, right before I shut down I let it run on high till the cpu temp gets to around 35). But it is always telling me it cant do anything with fan 2 and the only thing it...
My very first notebook. a Slightly upgraded inspiron 1200.
and of course, a clean "stock" pic from google:
I'm very impressed despite some of the reviews ive been reading online (although most of said bad reviews...
not as far as I know. mine was actually a previous unused license/disc I had lying around. add to that the fact that I didnt get the notebook directly from dell...
thx. anyways, I had a few questions that couldnt be answered in the FAQ:
1) why is the device mangler showing 2 display devices by the same name and 3 "plug and play" monitor's? btw, I got the model of the graphics adapter...
