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On 9300 systems, press the Play button on front to turn on

post #1 of 17
4/3/06 at 8:01pm
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When you press the play button on the front of an Inspiron 9300 when it's off, it will turn the laptop on and display some Dell Media logo. Then when it gets into windows it will try to load a program that I don't have installed.

Anyone know wtf this is?
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post #2 of 17
4/3/06 at 8:09pm
I'm pretty sure that's Dell Media Direct. I think it allows you to see video/listen to music without having to load windows. Something like that anyway.
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post #3 of 17
4/3/06 at 8:10pm
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I wiped my keys with my shirt one time before I turned it on and I must have brushed the play button. I was like "WTF is that man?!" heh
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post #4 of 17
4/3/06 at 8:11pm
haha......
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post #5 of 17
4/3/06 at 10:39pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Allistah
When you press the play button on the front of an Inspiron 9300 when it's off, it will turn the laptop on and display some Dell Media logo. Then when it gets into windows it will try to load a program that I don't have installed.

Anyone know wtf this is?
hey allistah did u have this dell media experiance thing b4 ? coz i don't remember being able to start the laptop just like that. but right after i did the pinmod ( together with you ), i was wiping the buttons and my laptop started booting also !!!! does this work on other i9300s?
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post #6 of 17
4/3/06 at 10:54pm
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Originally Posted by Hooly
I'm pretty sure that's Dell Media Direct. I think it allows you to see video/listen to music without having to load windows. Something like that anyway.
Dell Media Direct is the half-assed self-contained media player on the 9400's that doesn't boot the hard drive so it saves power.

On the 9300, it is trying to load Dell Media Experience. It's just a program that keeps track of all the music/videos on your system and gives you once cute lil program to watch/listen to it all from (instead of Windows Media Player). Pretty frickin useless.
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post #7 of 17
4/3/06 at 11:56pm
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heh, I don't remember having this happen when I had the 9300 bios on there. I guess I got this option when I flashed to the XPS bios. heh
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post #8 of 17
4/4/06 at 12:02am
Nah. It comes on the 9300 and xps. It's mainly if you want to watch a dvd when your laptop is off. It bypasses alot of windows boot processes to get you there faster. But, it still uses windows, unlike the 9400 or other laptops with this feature. as stated above.
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post #9 of 17
4/4/06 at 12:06am
for all those interested, the previous posts are wrong. On the 9300's and the XPS's it loads windows first then loads dell media experience. It wasn't until the 9400/e1705 that it would actually work correctly and not boot windows first.

Edit: Oops, didn't see the above post (I think I was posting when his posted )
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post #10 of 17
4/4/06 at 8:19am
It's rather irritating in that regard - when I found out about it I was pleased as I thought the 9300/XPS had an instant on which would hopefully save some precious batterypower while watching DVDs...when it booted into Windows I was disappointed to say the least.

John
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post #11 of 17
4/4/06 at 11:54am
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post #12 of 17
4/4/06 at 12:11pm
gridtalker,

I can tell your from experience (since i own a 9300) that it does in fact load windows, and always has Though the new 9400's don't seem to. Maybe dell will release a fix so the 9300's can do the same (wishful thinking on my part I guess).
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post #13 of 17
4/4/06 at 1:18pm
I wanted to clarify this only works if your laptop is OPEN. I was acutally looking for a sollution to turn it on while closed, and the play button does nothing while closed.
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post #14 of 17
4/4/06 at 6:34pm
Can you change what program it loads on the 9300? That would be sweet to load Firefox or something...
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post #15 of 17
4/4/06 at 6:36pm
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Hey, thats a good idea. That would be cool if you could have it load whatever program you wanted.
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post #16 of 17
4/4/06 at 10:54pm
I'm pretty sure you ca use Microsoft's IntelliType to change the button defaults of all the media buttons. There's a thread around here somewhere about it.
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post #17 of 17
4/5/06 at 2:11pm
After I pinmodded my i9300, I installed those front panel buttons slightly wrong, so they were under pressure, and the play button was always pressed... This made my power button not work, but if I pushed the play button, it would boot. To Windows, mind you, no media experience. I did a complete wipe and reinstall of Windows though, so the software was definately missing.
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