Dell

How do you create the Dell diagnostic partition and load it up with the diagnostics?
The subject says it all. I have a Dell system with a hosed up drive, so when I install the new drive I want to create the diagnostic partition and load it up with the diagnostics for the model of Dell machine. All that the web site has is software to UPDATE the diagnostic partition. Maybe I oughta try that? No ... 17 Mar 2005 18:04

Max HD Capacity for GX1 and GX110
I was wondering if anyone knew what the maximum hard drive capacity is for the Dell Optiplex GX1 and Dell Optiplex GX110. I have looked through the documents on Dell's support site, but can only find out what the largest size hard drive that shipped with those machines. What I need to know is what the largest... 10 Mar 2005 06:18

Driver_IRQL_Not_Less_Than BLUE SCREEN ERROR
For the past month, every so often while playing "World of Warcraft" my son gets a "Driver_IRQL_Not_Less_Than" blue screen error. From looking at this I get the impression this is not a driver issue, but an interrupt issue. It talks about software and hardware stuff and does a memory stack dump. This is the only... 11 Mar 2005 06:40

Changing Transfer Modes from PIO to DMA
I posted a few days ago regarding my Dell 4550's speed problem, and was told to change my Current Transfer Mode from PIO to DMA by changing my drive setting from OFF to AUTO in the Bios. But when I go into my Bios to change this, I'm finding that my Primary Device 0 is already set to AUTO. It's not set to OFF a... 13 Mar 2005 00:26

DVD+R/-RW Drive also Write Cd's?
I was on the Dell website looking at their home pc's. They offer an optical drive with this description: "Dual Drives: 16x DVD-ROM Drive + 16x DVD+/-RW w/dbl layer write capability [add $48.00 ]" Ok, the first drive would be a standard read on dvd rom. Now the second drive - what all type of medi... 9 Mar 2005 21:02

Confused About Resolution Designation
I've got a Dell Inspiron 8600 I bought last year. The invoice states it has a "15.4" Ultra Sharp (TM) Wide Screen XGA". The native resolution is 1280 x 800. I'm looking at a Dell Inspiron 6000. It comes with 1) 15.4" WXGA 2) 15.4" Ultra Sharp (TM) WSXGA+ 3) 15.4" Ultra Sharp (TM) WUXGA I don't want t... 9 Mar 2005 11:39

Dell E173FP monitor
Hello I just bought a Dell E173FP monitor. I was wondering about the display. On some web sites, the site fills the screen, on others the page will be to the left with lots of blank area tothe right. Is this normal? I find it rather distracting. I'm not sure of settings, so maybe someone can help me ... 9 Mar 2005 06:26

Dim 4700 heat & noise
Specs: Dell Dimension 4700 with P4 530 and 160 GB SATA disk. The noise from the disk when moving the heads is much louder than I would like. I did change the BIOS setting to quiet mode, which barely helps. To make matters worse, the disk seems to seek when idle as a "feature" to help cool the Seagate disk (re... 10 Mar 2005 10:27

cmos password
I have a dell 20ept, model mmp with an Intel celeron, phoenix bios a10 on the bench. The customer tried to put winxp on it. However the cmos is password protected and the install failed. They then used MadBoot and KILLCMOS to try and delete the password, to no avail. Now the cmos appears wiped clean, the date is... 10 Mar 2005 13:35

Help! My Dell is extremely slow now!
My system is a Dell 4550 2.66 Pentium IV with a 1 GB RAM and a 120 GB hard drive, running XP Home. It's a little over 2 years old, and it's always been a very speedy machine for me, but lately I've encountered a noticable slowdown when using it. Even after running AdAware, Spyboy S&D, and McAfee VirusScan (which ... 9 Mar 2005 15:50