somms...different Dell India fellow reported 341-1100 would not work with 8600, "U4366" is the correct part...whatever that is. I'm leary as I've been down this confused PN road with Dell on APRs. If the 341-1100 is only 8x...
The PN for the Dell 8X DVD on the ebay site, 341-1100, comes back to a DVD for "Latitude D-family and X300 Notebooks". Can anyone confirm this PN will work with an 8600? Dell India says it won't.
8600 mated to APR running XP Pro...with USB printer (Epson) connected to APR and turned on, bootup takes 6-8mins. Turn printer off and leave connected: bootup normal, approx 30sec. Have other USB devices connected to APR...Jazz, mouse,...
I tried the PN listed above on the Dell site and it came back as not a good number. Then did a storage parts sort for my 8600. The 4X DVD R/RW drive appeared (Dell Part #: 313-2055) for $229 but not the 8X drive.
Spend some time at the more popular anti-virus sites/forums and do your homework. What you'll likely find is many folks opt for a layered defense. I recommend using a good firewall, Zone Labs provides a good freeware program, in...
Just received a 5150 (Dell outlet), 3.2GHz, XPpro. Most of my peripherals are USB - Jazz, Zip, Printer, Wireless mouse - so I ordered the Targus port replicator per instructions from Dell support. Since the Targus uses up 1 of ONLY 2...
I just bought two of the Kingmax PC2700 512 sticks for my 5150 from newegg. Incidentally, theres a good article on the Ball Grid Array (BGA) construction used with these sticks here
woot...heres my stats, $1550 out door...
I5150 3.2GHz
15 SXGA+
XP Pro
256 MB DDR SDRAM, 333MHz (1 DIMM) **to be replaced with 1Gig Kingmax
60 GB EIDE Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
64MB nVidia GEForce FX GO5200
24X...
