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What's the status on some of the more severe problems in Dell Community? http://en.community.dell.com/wikis/tutorials/bugs-in-dell-community-wiki.aspx
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The Video BIOS is embedded into the System BIOS and ships as part of it. This is different to desktops. The Latitude D830 received the last Video BIOS update with the A13 BIOS version which you can check by looking at the release notes in Dells download section ("Updated Nvidia Video BIOS"). However A14 is the current BIOS version for the D830 and it's advised to install this one. You can't easily patch or update the Video BIOS yourself. It contains customizations (e.g. regarding
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Just open the file installation_readme.txt that comes with the generic intel drivers and read section "Manual Have-Disk Installation Instructions". Follow the steps precisely and the driver will install. Or follow these steps: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=3643858&postcount=30 However the most recent generic intel drivers don't run on the Inspiron 1525 very well. The latest version known to work is v15.11.0 (7.15.10.1537). The more recent ones face this problem
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Are you using an Inspiron 1525? Then this problem is known: http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/user-community-for-intel-graphics-technology/topic/61093/ Unfortunately a solution does not exists - except some hints. The thread also refers to screenshots: e.g in image that is supposed to look like this , is now display this way . Latest version known to work seems to be 15.11.0.1537.
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exiztone wrote: I can get by on the most part with paravirtualisation, but for completeness I'll need to benchmark proprietary systems too. XEN isn't a good choice for virtualization of proprietary systems such as Windows. But if it's for science, yes do it. However since you mentioned the word "benchmark", you will find rather poor performance values for the Core2Duo processor and pure VT-x based virtualization. One reason is that XEN is not sufficiently smart (since it doesn't use binary
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Unfortunately I need HVM for my work, so I'm either going to have to wait it out for a new BIOS or get a different model. Are you sure about that? The only application that comes to my mind is a XEN hypervisior with a binary only operating system such as Windows. The second application is to host a 64-Bit binary OS. In all other cases virtualization software (VMWare, VirtualBox) support code rewriting , which is in practically all cases faster than VT-x anyway. Many people think they require VT-x