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  • Dimension 3000 power supply and PCI video card

    Is there a replacement Power Supply for the Dimension 3000 that has a 400W or so capacity and is a straight plug-in and bolt-in unit for this system? My son has tons of USB stuff running on this system already and we will be installing a new PCI video card. My concern is that the stock PSU may not be...
    Posted to General Hardware (Forum) by josgood on 11-23-2008
    Tags: video upgrade, Dimension 3000, power supply upgrade
  • Alert! Previous shutdown due to thermal event

    System : Dimension 3000 Hello, i'm having a problem with my Mother's computer. It is shutting down (completely powering off) and will not come back on for several hours, sometimes days. When it does power back on, before booting into windows, i get an error message that reads: Alert! Previous...
    Posted to General Hardware (Forum) by jholty on 12-10-2008
    Tags: Fan, fans, CPU Temperature, Dimension 3000, cooling fan
  • Dimension 3000 CPU upgrade

    Hello guys and gals. Last night I tried to upgrade my folk's PC with more RAM and a P4 CPU. I pulled a P4 from an in-service GX270. Now, the documentation for the Dimension 300 states that the mobo would accept a P4 (the Dimension in question has a Celeron) but upon installation I got an amber power...
    Posted to General Hardware (Forum) by JDCrockett on 12-10-2008
    Tags: Upgrade, cpu, Dimension 3000, Optiplex, failure, amber
  • Upgrade questions for a Dell Dimension 3000

    Hey all. MY dimension is the P4 2.8ghz, specs . I've already upgraded my memory from the stock 512mb to 2gb Kingston PC3200 DDR Dual Channel. I will soon be upgrading the video card and sound card. Now, I'm looking into possibly upgrading the fan that's on the system, and maybe even the power...
    Posted to General Hardware (Forum) by secondv on 12-10-2008
    Tags: Fan, Dimension, Power Supply, Dimension 3000, 3000
  • New Processor for Dimension 3000

    I have a Dimension 3000 that is still going strong but the celeron processor struggles a bit these days and I am thinking of replacing it with a pentium 4 and also upping the memory. I have spent a fair amount of time searching for the correct processor model (of which there are many to choose from ...
    Posted to General Hardware (Forum) by torwalker on 12-28-2008
    Tags: processor, upgrade cpu, Dimension 3000, pentium 4, prescott
  • Dimension 3000 will not boot from CDRom drive

    I want to re-format the computer with a dell xp service pack 2 cd. The CD rom drive works fine when the computer is running in windows, and the cd rom boots fine on other computers, but the Computer will not boot the CD at start up. What's going on? Either the CD rom drive should work, or not. It...
    Posted to General Hardware (Forum) by cong06 on 12-31-2008
    Tags: Dimension 3000, ide cdrom, bootable disk, re-install
  • Not sure what to think here... (RAM)

    I have a Dimension 3000 (built in 2004) running a P4 2.8ghz processor. I've always been told that the maximum memory supported was 2gb. However, now I'm getting conflicting information: http://uploadr.org/u/2910e.jpg If I'm reading this right, it appears it's reading that 4gb would be...
    Posted to General Hardware (Forum) by secondv on 01-04-2009
    Tags: memory, Dimension 3000
  • BIOS not ACPI Compliant (Dimension 3000)

    I have a Dimension 3000. In January 2008, I had upgraded the RAM (both) from 256MB to Kingston Technologies 512MB (PC3200/2700/2100 DDR SDRAM). A few months later I got the "blue screen" error about the BIOS not being ACPI compliant, so I updated the BIOS from A02 to A03, which appears to be...
    Posted to General Hardware (Forum) by pghflyer on 01-13-2009
    Tags: BIOS, Dimension 3000
  • Re: adding a slave drive to a Dimension 3000

    Thanks for you response....I tried it all....but it would ont read the new 160G slave drive. So I downloaded an Ao3 upgrade to the BIOS..but now it does not seem to recognize even the old drive....it goes to setup...and I have to press F1 for it to boot up!!!! When I do attach the new drive it goes through...
    Posted to General Hardware (Forum) by rescue7 on 01-18-2009
    Tags: hard drive, Dimension 3000, BIOS A03, slave drive
  • BIOS UPGRADE FOR THE DIMENSION 3000 AND ADDING SLAVE DRIVE

    i UP GRADED MY BIOS FROM AO2 TO AO3 BUT NOW IT SEEMS THAT THE COMPUTER DOES NOT RECOGNIZE THE OPERATING SYSTEM AS IT GOES INTO THE SYSTEM SETPUP AND ASKS ME TO PUSH F1 ....WHEN I DO PUSH F1 THE SYSTEM DOES COME UP. HOW DO I CORRECT THIS? PLUS I DOWNLOADED THE AO3 IN ORDER TO CONNECT A SLAVE DRIVE OF...
    Posted to General Hardware (Forum) by rescue7 on 01-18-2009
    Tags: BIOS, Dimension 3000, Hard drive capacity/limits, BIOS A03, slave drive
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