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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...
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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...
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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...
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Flisker
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12-17-2008
Tags: Upgrade, BIOS, upgrade cpu, cpu upgrade, Inspiron 530, orange light, q6600, pentium dual core
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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kpeterson22
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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