Greetings. I have an XPS 8500 that up until this morning I was being tortured on a daily basis by running Win8. But after using Gparted from a bootable linux USB stick to format an external drive ext3 format my lovely PC would no longer boot. Operating System not found or one of those statements you...

I have a Dell Precision Workstation 380 with WinXP 32 bit. I love it. I have it configured with 4 SATA HD (I had to make a minor modification), I need a second computer that will support four 3TB drives . I think I am looking for a 64 bit system, that way I can run either WinXP 64 or Win 7. I am looking...

About a month ago, I purchased a very nice Dell XPS 8500. For some reason though, this past month the computer has been falling apart. The hard drive started to make loud clicking noises, and the graphics card failed. After many replacement parts, Dell Support agreed to ship out a replacement XPS 8500...

I currently have a 2-year old Dell XPS 8100, with an Intel i7 860 CPU at 2.80 GHz, 8GB RAM, 500 GB Hard Drive, 64-bit Operating System, and running on Windows 7 Home Premium. The motherboard is a T568R. This desktop has chewed through two Hard Drives and on its third, which is starting to sound like...

I would like to possibly change my motherboard for one with SATA III so I could install a fast ssd drive also would like more ports for cooling fans (rather than just one). This would also allow me to change my case easier. My question is, does anyone know any motherboards that would be compatible...

For some reason recently my screen wouldn't detect my computer. Plug the DVI cable into both DVI ports on the graphics card with no change. Then I plugged a VGA cable into my motherboard and boom I have visual. I went into the device manager to find that my display device is the intel on board card...

Hello, I am also having the locking up problem. there is also a click noise that what I thought first might come from a hdd. but definately does not, after just ran with a ssd-disk. Then I got in touch with another interesting facts. I could discover these when inspecting my pc in depth: ...

I have Windows 7 on my Inspiron 530. I've had the computer for years. I got the internet a few months ago, and am having problems ever since. My computer will shut off randomly and will not restart for days no matter how many times I un-plug it, and re plug it. The fans will run VERY loudly, and...

I noticed my I570 started back randomly shutting off a lot in March - April 2012. In May it got worst just shutting off on its own. Towards the End of May 30th 2012 it just shutdown, my monitor went into safe mode BUT the PC itself is still working or running I should say. I'm not sure whats wrong...

There is no reason to believe it should not if the BIOS works correctly. RAID cards with BIOS use the Int13h for booting and any PC BIOS should recognize this. I have a Dell 560 with AMI bios which is running a RocketRaid 2300 RAID1 for boot drive with no problem.

I recently got an XPS 8300 desktop and I didn't know that it didn't come with a wireless card. In simple terms what is the difference between 1520 and 1501 Wireless cards? I need to get one and want to know why one is preferred or need above another.

Anyone having clock issues with a DELL XPS 8300? Seems like everyday my clock is off by hours. Just now it was an hour ahead, and the other day it was several hours ahead. This computer isn't hardly a month old. Already got network issues and clock issues.

HI Guys, I bought this DELL VOSTRO 430 in June 2010. Problem 1: ************* I recently observed the system temperatures were pretty high. I used Speccy. Under Normal operation Speccy Reports: --------------------------------------------------------- Mother Board System Temp: 104...

I have a Dell Inspiron 530s slim desktop, hardware specs are as follows: 160 GB Samsung SATA hard drive. Toshiba Samsung DVD writer model TS-H635. also has a MSI N210 MDIG/D3 1 GB PCIe video card, low profile. Intel Celeron 1.60 GHz Processor. 350 Watt power supply. brand new, 2 1 GB RAM sticks, DDR2...

Dear dell community, I've very recently had a problem with my dell dimension 9200. I've also spent the last 3 hours searching through these forums and I think I know the problem but before spending money on the solution I thought I would check with someone a little cleverer. Full spec as...

I have a Dell Precision T3400 running Windows 7 64bit with an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor, 8gb memory, 3 hard drives totalling 2Gb, a 525W power unit, Geforce 9800 GT video card and Soundblaster XFi Music audio card. Its a basic workstation for my studies which i use to run virtual workstations...

..and we're going to be putting in a new board that is not the same as what came with the computer. Can I use my disks that came with my Dell (Windows 7 Pro 64bit) to reinstall, or am I going to have to get a new Windows 7 Disk for this computer?

I have a Dell XPS 400 desktop. Despite Dell's skepticism, I was able to install Windows 7 (64 bit) on my machine. Now, I would like to upgrade my memory to 6 GB. Has anyone done this? Or does anyone have any tips? I have two 2GB sticks and two 1GB sticks. The documentation says there's...

This one has me so frustrated. I apologize if I'm not posting in the correct forum, but honestly I'm not sure if it's hardware related or software related. I normally run a Dell Inspiron 530. I have 6 GB RAM and have upgraded the HDD and installed Windows 7 64 bit. That was a few months...

Hello Everyone, I have a dell optiplex 620 machine. It was working fine 3 days back but yesterday when i turned it on it shows me amber light. I opened the side case and put out the memory (RAM) out then turned on the machine without memory. The machine has no sound as i know that if memory is not...

Hi I'm looking for some advice / tips on what sort of upgrades might be possible from my Dell motherboard, particularly if I want to update my cpu (the bios won't accept a more recent cpu). I have a Dimension 9150 (DXP051) P4 3.4GHz with a NVidia card, ethernet, Firewire, sound card and...

I heard that dell was thinking about using Google plus for support i think this is a great idea. The video chat feature would be like text support on steroids, making it a lot faster and easier to find a solution to your problem copy and paste this in a new forum if you think dell should use Google plus...

Motherboard died Part II: My question is, How can I migrate the HDD with Win 7 to a new motherboard with all other hardware remaining the same ? I did this once on another system using my own windows XP on a barebones system. It was easy, but I can't remember how I did it, and it was not on a...