Hi, I've turned on the computer this morning: NO SOUND, red cross on the speaker, sound device not detected. ... Any idea? Thx

Heya all, I'm trying to fix my moms pc for her, most times i can get it, but this has me stumped, she has a dell xps 420 desktop, a few days ago she tried to turn it on, and the power light was a constant yellow with a sound like the fan was trying to turn, no smells or anything, I followed the various...

Dell xps 420 cpu fan, case fan and gpu fan run @100% high from when the desktop is powered on until it is shut off. The cpu temps monitoring software shows cpu temps well below 40 C. Even with no load stress the fans are constantly running on high (it sounds like a hairdryer on high). All components...

Hey Everybody, Basically I am currently a Architectural Visualizer but studying to be a character animator with AM , and now with business picking up I really need to upgrade. At the moment I have an oldish XPS 420 ( I have it about 2 years ), with an intel core 2 quad Q6600 , 4GB Corsair dominator...

XPS 420 3GB RAM I had been running the Vista Home Premium 32bit and had enabled RAID and eSATA port in BIOS. (NOTE that the hard drives were just left as non-RAID disks,only enabled RAID to get functionality of eSATA port). So everything was great. I had an external LaCie 2big Quadra acting as a backup...