Posts by Jim Barry

I've been running the RightMark CPU Clock Utility with great success ever since Blahman made the suggestion in post #2. It works on Vista too, though it needs to run as administrator, which quickly gets annoying when UAC is enabled....

Quote: Originally Posted by jim6172 actually now its a moot point dell exchanged my dead 80gig for a free upgrade to a 100gig 7200 no hpa partition just gotta love tech support!! Nice one!

OK, I read up about the Host Protected Area and I guess that explains why my first 100 GB hard disk appeared to be only 98.5 GB. HPA isn't a Dell-specific thing, it's actually part of the ATA standard, since ATA-4. Dell has either...

I don't think it's quite that evil. My 80 GB drive is reported by the BIOS as 80 GB, and I'm pretty certain it said that before I erased it, too. Also, when I first got the notebook I could see the MediaDirect extended partiton in the...

Thanks... actually I did consider that option but in the end I did a low level disk erase with the Hitachi DFT utility and reinstalled Windows from scratch. Thankfully the "MD extended partition table erro" message is finally...

I went for a clean install of Windows and now I want to add MediaDirect 3 back in, using the MD3 reinstall DVD that came with the notebook (a 6400/E1505). Using PartitionMagic, I resized the main partition so that there is 2 GB of...

Thanks jayno20, sounds like there's little point calling Dell about this, then. It's a real shame when they slip up on little things like this - it makes such a difference to the perceived quality of the notebook.

I just bought an Inspiron 6400 (the UK equivalent of the E1505) as a gift for a family member. I took it out of the box to get it set up, and immediately noticed that the lid doesn't shut tightly. There is a small gap between the rubber...

I'm sure the parts are the same Thanks for the link, that looks like just the ticket.

I read somewhere that these laptops use an SATA/IDE bridge so the hard disk looks to Windows just like a normal IDE drive.