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My friend has an Inspiron 1100 that has just recently given him some problems. The notebook works just fine, except whenever he moves the LCD forward, the screen goes black and it looks as if the system locks up. This happens at any time the computer is on, even from the boot screen.
Great to hear jaycrew. You'll definitely see a noticable difference if you upgrade the RAM especially since the video runs off shared memory.
Try the MediaDirect repair utility on Dell's website. It requires you to burn a CD that you'll boot your computer from to run the repair.
Quote: Originally Posted by drjeff2b Followed all the steps with help from a couple of other forums and the computer is running great, although there are still dozens of processes running. Took a little to time to figure out all the right settings but i think i got it right. Any way to get these processes down? Did I not do it right? Well, I didn't look at what processes ran when I did the clean install, but I have a bunch of processes...
I don't know what kind of visual improvements they're going to make in Halo 2 for Vista, but seeing as it ran on a 733MHz P3 w/ 64MB of RAM ... it should run on current video cards and processors. The two reasons MS launching Halo 2 for Vista only is to boost sales for Vista and the online gaming system will be one of the first PC games to work with the expanding Live platform.
jaycrew: Congratulations on your purchase. No, it's not necessary. However, when you do a clean install, if you don't delete the MediaDirect partition (which is the F: drive if I recall correctly) you don't need to order the MediaDirect CD. You'll just need to download the repair utility from Dell's website and it'll give you all the instructions on how to burn a repair CD.
1. The X1400 should allow you to play the current games smoothly at medium settings, but you'll probably find yourself dropping to lower settings as new games are released. 2. Vista is supposed to be launched in Q1 of 2007. Microsoft is aiming for CES 2007, which is early January, but it might be delayed a month or so. 3. My recommendations would be: - Configure your system with the 60GB hdd 5400RPM drive and 512MB of RAM - Purchase a larger 7200RPM hdd and 2GB of RAM...
Just givin' my thumbs up for Bal`thzar. Awesome deal and great condition for a DGL-4300.
jaycrew: The Core Duos run excellent. Applications run very smooth and launch very quickly. I'd say the only bottleneck in the system is the 5400rpm hard drive. I could switch it out with a 7200rpm with a larger cache and probably see a difference in loading applications. drjeff2b: Reformatting is a very simple process as long as you have three things: a bootable installation CD for Windows, CD with drivers, and a repair CD for MediaDirect. Here's a pretty simple guide...
Got it yesturday. Everything works great. Thanks!
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