Dell Laptop User Thread

[ahjoe100]

yup...hope can receive it in gd condition before CNY...kekeke

 

[human_shieldz]

yup...hope can receive it in gd condition before CNY...kekeke

Me too lol. Have u check the shipping status of ya laptop yet?

 

[ahjoe100]

Me too lol. Have u check the shipping status of ya laptop yet?

same as u... 21st Feb ah. hmm... if Dell can do delivery before CNY will get a thumbs up from me.

1st time buying something from Dell... hope to have some nice impression from them since i hear some nice comments in the thread abt them

 

[kohyokechye]

i am wondering... can the sim card slot in the notebook hidden in the battery compartment could be used to receive SMSes

 

[li_chenwei48]

i am wondering... can the sim card slot in the notebook hidden in the battery compartment could be used to receive SMSes

cant, the GSM Card is not avaliable to M1210 in SG

 

[human_shieldz]

same as u... 21st Feb ah. hmm... if Dell can do delivery before CNY will get a thumbs up from me.

1st time buying something from Dell... hope to have some nice impression from them since i hear some nice comments in the thread abt them

Eeeee, yesterday called up the order tracker number said its already in the country and processing for local delivery. Then today i called again said its ready and going out of the country. Their order tracker track backwards one ah. Make me happy for nothing

 

[revslide]

Reinstallation

I've just got my dell 6400 laptop yesterday night and i'm thinking of reinstalling everything with windows XP.

The question i have in mind is whether the system/graphic drivers provided are for vista. If thats the case, is it necessary to download the xp drivers instead from the net?

Thanks!

 

[Diavonex]

This is relatively new.

You should call them to confirm.

Support telephone number is on your tax invoice.

Have your Service Tag ready before you call (it's under your notebook)

 

[revslide]

Ok called them. They said it was Vista version and i had to redownload the XP versions. Guess it's quite a hassle to install XP.

 

[human_shieldz]

Yay! MY XPS1210 deliverying tmr 6-10pm! But i goto go reunion dinner so goto send it to my fren's home 1st

 

[ahjoe100]

thats gd news, i will be getting the lappy tmr oso. thumbs up for DELL =)

 

[ter_03_80]

ya DELL has really improved on their service and delivery.

jus a feedback on my 640m after using for 2 weeks,everything seems fine but when playing games,i find it really hot on my CPU whereas normal usage is not hot though,is this normal?should i stop playing games so as to porlong the life for my 640m?

cheers

 

[mgo430]

i've some question to ask regarding ram for my laptop. currently i am using inspiron 8200 and i wish to upgrade my ram. my ram is 256 mb and the detail is 200-pin SODIMM, DDR PC2100 SDRAM, CL=2.5, Non-Parity.
intend to upgrade to 1 gb, anything to look out and what type of ram that i can buy?any recommendation. thx

 

[Diavonex]

DELL Inspiron 8200 RAM

http://www.ec.kingston.com/ecom/con...ll-Inspiron+8200&distributor=0&submit1=Search

 

[mgo430]

thx for your help

 

[human_shieldz]

ya DELL has really improved on their service and delivery.

jus a feedback on my 640m after using for 2 weeks,everything seems fine but when playing games,i find it really hot on my CPU whereas normal usage is not hot though,is this normal?should i stop playing games so as to porlong the life for my 640m?

cheers

I think laptop normally have a life of only about 2-3 years then its time for new one lol. Not that it will be dead on u but it will be almost there and everything will seem to be obsolete. So use it while u can hehe.

 

[silencer22]

juz gotten my dell today
ordered it on tuesday
quite efficient i can say...

first time using dell
some qns regarding formatting hoping u guys could help
mine come wif 4 partitions, 2 unlabel (suppose to b e diagnosis n mediadirect), 1 recovery n 1 OS
if i wan to keep e mediadirect, dun1 e recovery partition, how could i format it such tt e rest would not b affected??

e md3 doesnt seems to b able to delete a partition....

 

[human_shieldz]

I'm loving every minute of my XPS 1210 and Vista! woohooo

 

[BradenHeat]

juz gotten my dell today
ordered it on tuesday
quite efficient i can say...

first time using dell
some qns regarding formatting hoping u guys could help
mine come wif 4 partitions, 2 unlabel (suppose to b e diagnosis n mediadirect), 1 recovery n 1 OS
if i wan to keep e mediadirect, dun1 e recovery partition, how could i format it such tt e rest would not b affected??

e md3 doesnt seems to b able to delete a partition....

Just pop in the Windows Home CD that dell gave you, format it into 3 partitions, one for windows, another for pagefile, last for backup.

E.g 60Gb
40gb, 3Gb, 17GB.

 

[cracker]

juz gotten my dell today
ordered it on tuesday
quite efficient i can say...

first time using dell
some qns regarding formatting hoping u guys could help
mine come wif 4 partitions, 2 unlabel (suppose to b e diagnosis n mediadirect), 1 recovery n 1 OS
if i wan to keep e mediadirect, dun1 e recovery partition, how could i format it such tt e rest would not b affected??

e md3 doesnt seems to b able to delete a partition....

Why is there partition for 'recovery" , "os" if Dell has also provided the installation CD rom..