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post #21 of 58
3/9/06 at 8:40pm
im still paying off mine =-|
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post #22 of 58
3/9/06 at 8:40pm
im still paying off mine =-|
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post #23 of 58
3/9/06 at 10:08pm
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Ya Im married. Im 24 and taking CAD classes + MCSE classas. My dad co signed for the school and it took me a while to get him to sign for the Laptop. But I do have to pay for half the school and laptop
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post #24 of 58
3/9/06 at 10:13pm
I'm 20... my parents pay for school but i paid for my laptop... Had to take a loan against my car for it.. lol
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post #25 of 58
3/9/06 at 10:19pm
Yep, as mentioned here, definitely do a clean reinstall and ghost to an external drive if you've got one.

Lithium/Lithium-Polymer batteries don't handle deep discharging and recharging. Very bad, just make sure to fully charge it (might even want to charge it a few hours beyond when it says it's fully charged) and fire it up!

You should occasionally try to let it run down a little (but not all the way) to recalibrate the voltage meter (no not a memory effect) But in general deep discharging on Lithium ions is very detrimental to them..
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post #26 of 58
3/9/06 at 10:20pm
Also read my post here about protecting your M170 lid. --That's if you don't want a ton of scratches on it..
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post #27 of 58
3/9/06 at 10:32pm
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Well I splurged and got those shields, Whatever the hell that is. $29 not a Big deal.
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post #28 of 58
3/9/06 at 10:38pm
The personalization shield is OK. But it looks ugly IMO. I prefer the brushed gunmetal finish of the M170. If you find you don't like the way the shields look and don't use them, definitely pick up some plexus protectant otherwise you're bound to scratch your lid up pretty quickly.
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post #29 of 58
3/9/06 at 10:47pm
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Well can I remove the shield if it looks gay? I mean you know that Thing where you put the inserts
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post #30 of 58
3/10/06 at 2:25am
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So whats the better Nic??? I think im going to go with c???

a. Intel® PRO 2200 and Dell 350 Bluetooth Internal Wireless Cards
b. Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200 Internal Wireless (802.11 b/g, 54Mbps)
c. Intel® PRO 2915 and Dell 350 Bluetooth Internal Wireless Cards
d. Intel® PRO/Wireless 2915 Internal Wireless (802.11 a/b/g, 54Mbps)
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post #31 of 58
3/10/06 at 12:53pm
the shield only looks as good as the inserts you put in it..
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post #32 of 58
3/10/06 at 3:52pm
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Originally Posted by ZaVaZ
Well can I remove the shield if it looks gay? I mean you know that Thing where you put the inserts
Yes it snaps on and off. If you put the right image in there you won't have worry about it looking "ghey." Make sure you print it on photo paper on high quality.

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Originally Posted by theberlindoctor
the shield only looks as good as the inserts you put in it..


Mine
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post #33 of 58
3/10/06 at 5:40pm
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Nice sheild. When I get mine I guess Ill put that Sephroth fire pic
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post #34 of 58
3/11/06 at 4:20am
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Originally Posted by ZaVaZ
Nice sheild.
Thanks, I made it in Photoshop... fun times, it's almost like having a custom paint job on a car!
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post #35 of 58
3/11/06 at 7:13am
1 - reformat
2 - put your windows on a different partition than c:\
3 - make a 5 GB c:\ partition, and use this for your pagefile.
4 - make a limited account, with no passwords for admin or the limited account.
surf the www using the limited account.
5 - look at the tweaks in the dell review forum sticky.
6 - defragment often, use ccleaner often, use firefox and thunderbird, and activate your xp firewall. Update Windows.
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post #36 of 58
3/11/06 at 10:04am
Debug format reinstall do daaaa do daaaa.

http://support.dell.com/support/topi...n&s=biz&cs=555

That will wipe everything on the dirve. just boot to the resource cd then quite to dos and start the script.

install windows.

then install the latest drivers in this order.

Dell Notebook System Software
Intel Mobile Chipset Driver
PCMCIA Controller Driver (native to XP)
NVIDIA GeForce Go Video Driver
SigmaTel STAC 9750 Audio Driver
Broadcom 5705M Integrated Controller (570X Nic driver on the support site)

Do all windows updates then continue to install the drivers

Wireless Mini PCI Driver (if applicable)
MDC Driver
SDIO Driver (not quite sure what this is but its on the list from dell)
Bluetooth Driver (if applicable)
Synaptics touchpad drivers
QuickSet Utility

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post #37 of 58
3/11/06 at 10:10am
Quote:
Originally Posted by dlinkin
1 - reformat
2 - put your windows on a different partition than c:\
3 - make a 5 GB c:\ partition, and use this for your pagefile.
4 - make a limited account, with no passwords for admin or the limited account.
surf the www using the limited account.
5 - look at the tweaks in the dell review forum sticky.
6 - defragment often, use ccleaner often, use firefox and thunderbird, and activate your xp firewall. Update Windows.
Sorry if this seems like a "dumb" question, but how would #4 help? It just seems like kind of a hassle just to surf the 'net.
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post #38 of 58
3/11/06 at 11:02am
Probably to stop nasty's installing as it isnt in full admin priveledges. Ithink linux runs like that.
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post #39 of 58
3/11/06 at 11:19am
What's a better 100 gb harddrive? the Seagate one or Hitachi 7k100??? And yeah both are 72,000 rpm's
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post #40 of 58
3/11/06 at 8:39pm
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Originally Posted by verbatim
Probably to stop nasty's installing as it isnt in full admin priveledges. Ithink linux runs like that.
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