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  • Inspiron 530 PSU upgrade question.

    Hey. I have recently purchased a dell inspiron 530 desktop with the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor E7300 (3MB L2, 2.66GHz, 1066 FSB). Which comes with a 350 watt PSU. I'm going to upgrade the computer with a new video card and perhaps additional RAM in the future and am concerned about the...
    Posted to General Hardware (Forum) by Paladin_A on 12-14-2008
    Tags: RAM, video card, PSU Power Supply Unit, Inspiron 530, watt, Core 2 duo, ATX
  • Inspiron 530 not reading CD-ROMs

    I recently bought an Inspirion 530 off the Dell website that said it came with Vista as the included price. But for some reason I somehow ended up with Ubuntu instead, which is not what I asked for. I checked all of the Inspirons and none of the say they come with Ubuntu. Either it is the Operating System...
    Posted to General Hardware (Forum) by KombiZombi on 12-14-2008
    Tags: vista, Inspiron 530, ubuntu
  • CPU upgrade in Dell Inspiron 530

    Hey, I have a Dell Inspiron 530 and I want to upgrade my CPU to a Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600. Thinking it works, I bought it and I put it in the PC and try starting up and all I get is all the fans moving the DVD R/W works and the HDD is working but the light won't turn blue and nothing is displayed...
    Posted to General Hardware (Forum) by Flisker on 12-17-2008
    Tags: Upgrade, BIOS, upgrade cpu, cpu upgrade, Inspiron 530, orange light, q6600, pentium dual core
  • I installed 4GB of RAM but it is only showing 3GB

    My Dell Inspiron 530 came with 3GB of DDR2 (PC2-5300 / 667 MHz) I just replaced that with 4GB of DDR2 (PC2-6400 / 800 MHz) My OS is Vista 32-bit My BIOS version is 1.0.15 My "System Information" screen shows the following: Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB Total Physical Memory 3.00 GB...
    Posted to General Hardware (Forum) by tleinweber on 12-20-2008
    Tags: Upgrade, RAM, Inspiron 530, RAM upgrade
  • Inspiron 530 Working with One Faulty RAM Slot

    I have an Inspiron 530 and want to upgrade to at least 3 MB RAM. However, one of the security clips for DIMM_2 is broken, so I am not sure whether I can install a RAM card in that slot. My current RAM (2x512MB) is behaving poorly. I believe Crucial says each RAM slot only takes 1 MB, but the Dell manual...
    Posted to General Hardware (Forum) by Selbrecm on 01-03-2009
    Tags: RAM, Inspiron 530
  • Trouble enabling a new DVD drive port in Setup - Inspiron 531

    I am adding an new DVD drive and need to enable the SATA2 port. When I go to that section in Setup, the section is locked. The Harddrive (SATA0 port) and the existing dvd drive (SATA1 port) are enabled but locked too. I can enable/disable the floppy drive but not the SATA ports. Any suggestions? Thx...
    Posted to General Hardware (Forum) by JerryTh31 on 01-04-2009
    Tags: SATA add drive, settings, Inspiron 530, DVD drive, Setup
  • Re: I installed 4GB of RAM but it is only showing 3GB

    Hi, Thanks for your reply. Page 98 of Dell Inspiron 530 manual(KP338A01MR.PDF from DELL site)) gives following information Quote Page98 Removing and Installing Parts Memory Installation Guidelines • DIMM connectors must be populated in numerical order beginning with connectors DIMM_1 and DIMM_3...
    Posted to General Hardware (Forum) by GPJ on 01-06-2009
    Tags: memory, Inspiron 530
  • File iqvw32.sys- is it needed, if so, where?

    Please help me- After scanning this Inspiron 530, Windows Vista Home Prem., 32bit with Windows Defender, this file, iqvw32.sys, was located at the end of a line of command of a registry change that Defender questioned and I denied because I checked on a Dell forum that said this could be a Spyware file...
    Posted to General Hardware (Forum) by Limirick on 01-08-2009
    Tags: Inspiron 530, software issue
  • Inspiron 530. 500 GB harddrive, losing space at an unhealthy rate?

    Hello community - So I've had my Inspiron 530 PC for close to 2 weeks now. After setting up and formatting my harddrive, I had about 420 GB to work with. Now at about the 2 week mark I have 395 GB. 25 GB gone just like that? I'm a very casual user (web, email, some MS Works, pictures, etc.) No...
    Posted to General Hardware (Forum) by samfrancis83 on 01-15-2009
    Tags: Inspiron 530, losing memory, anti-virus, AVG
  • Re: Inspiron 530 issues

    I will agree with you mine is doing the same thing boot takes 2 minutes for me poor design I would say. Same issue with sound from fand its so bad I can hear it thru my phone and a hum that comes thru the sound card thru the speakers with a hum noise Kelly
    Posted to General Hardware (Forum) by kpeterson22 on 01-25-2009
    Tags: Nvidia, Nvidia 9800gx2, Creative Labs Integrated Sound Blaster Audigy ADVANCED HD Audio, sound card, Inspiron 530, Inspiron 530 boot fan running constantly, noisy computer, dng9h1
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