Posts by davs

the house symbol should launch dell media experience or something like that. i believe you have to order the installation disc? i would suggest you read the articles on reinstalling media direct (since it seems you don't have it...

i tried it out recently and seemed to work fine for small files, and overwriting files. i had trouble with creating large files (350 or 700 mb), which is obviously a problem if i want to save a tv show or movie. let us know how it works...

media direct is a multimedia app that can run without booting windows. i've read on this forum that some people can't get it to work when their laptop arrives. are you by any chance outside the US? regarding the buttons, they should...

i replaced the toshiba stack with the microsoft stack. but i have an hs850. i use it for skype/gizmo calls all the time. i hate the toshiba stack because its hard on system resources, but the advantage as i understand is it's the only...

http://www.notebookforums.com/thread164182.html. read this for a guide on partitioning and setting it up all on one drive. if you have an external disk drive, you can install any recent distribution onto it, and you can boot it whenever...

why don't you try some other ext3 driver for windows? since i don't have the need for the ext3 partition to be constantly mounted, when i want to access files , i use http://www.chrysocome.net/explore2fs see if you can access the...

nah, fire up your new dell. download all the latest drivers and burn them/put them on a usb drive. download the latest bios and install it. when its done, format and reinstall windows. you'll have it all set up in an hour tops. oh...

that's a good idea. hadn't thought about it . but if you get the task manager into the md2 partition, you can easily install the ext2/ext3 fs-driver. i'm not sure if it will search hard drivers other than the normal windows one, but...

thanks for the positive feedback. the sound and video drivers included seem to work well for the 6400/e1505. sound volume is oddly a bit louder in mediadirect than in windows (probably because its using generic drivers). i've...

i agree that you shouldn't download dells drivers. they're outdated most of the time. i personally don't like the omega drivers either. they work fine, but if at some point you want to get rid of them, you might have a hard time. i use...