Dell Laptop User Thread

[dennis009]

If your warranty it over, don bother to sent back to sent, out will be more cheaper.

 

[alanhsieh]

Acronis is more user friendly; Ghost currently cannot be used with Windows Vista.

DVD backup/recovery is not so good because:

1. It's slowwwww

2. If Image is bigger than 4GB, you'll have to span to another DVD

3. You cannot verify/mount Image if it's span over to another DVD.

However, using DVDs for backup/recovery is cheap loh.

 

[dennis009]

May not be good to backup on dvd, too small. Get a external harddisk.

 

[zachiel77]

Anyone use 640m to play FM2007?

 

[dennis009]

Playing game should be fine for me. But using of window vista would still not up to my standard. Cos i still don feel like i have the speed of a 2 GB ram. Guess the next up grade will be a much bugger harddisk.

I do wish to find out what the price of a 2.5" notobook sata harddisk.....for 160G
i only manage to find 160g so for,,,any more larger one?

5400 and 7200 rpm,,,,which one more quiet?

 

[Diavonex]

 

[dennis009]

I currently have a 1 year warrenty,,i was think i should upgrade it to a 3 year complete cover warrenty for $310,,,,,is it really worth it. WHat problem to look out for a laptop after a while?

 

[darrenlee78]

I currently have a 1 year warrenty,,i was think i should upgrade it to a 3 year complete cover warrenty for $310,,,,,is it really worth it. WHat problem to look out for a laptop after a while?

Harddisk, keyboard, lcd, etc. Cant really predict. If you want to keep your laptop for 3 years and you are a heavy user, then go for it.

 

[darrenlee78]

facing this prob for straight 2 days and hope i'm not jumping to any fast conclusion.

I kena "blue screen" while using my dell inspiron 510m, the lappy just pop this "blue screen" with error message read like this ""If this is first time you encountered...." something like this ..

Not sure if id due to hardware config or whatsoever but having kena twice on 2 straight days make me worriy.. any advises?? thanks

probalbly harddisk kaput.

 

[Diavonex]

facing this prob for straight 2 days and hope i'm not jumping to any fast conclusion.

I kena "blue screen" while using my dell inspiron 510m, the lappy just pop this "blue screen" with error message read like this ""If this is first time you encountered...." something like this ..

Not sure if id due to hardware config or whatsoever but having kena twice on 2 straight days make me worriy.. any advises?? thanks

Run your DELL diagnostic CD.

 

[yukita]

my dell xps 1210 "b" button on keyboard spoil i think. have to press a little harder than other button to type. otherwise if i type fast.... always skipped the "B" .....

also the lcd frame quality not good ... usually i open the lcd screen from middle, the frame there always sound "tick" when i open the laptop.... very disappointed with this product......

 

[Diavonex]

If it's still under warranty, give them a call.

They'll probably replace the keyboard and check the "tick" on your LCD.

 

[jason87]

cba to read all the previous posts, i was fed up with my inspiron 6400, i cant play dota with it cos it will lag half way when u r playing dota, i upgraded ram to 1GB n the problem stil existed, i guess the biggest problem is the graphic bcos it was intel graphic card build in 224mb..any idea i can solve this problem??

thx

 

[yukita]

cba to read all the previous posts, i was fed up with my inspiron 6400, i cant play dota with it cos it will lag half way when u r playing dota, i upgraded ram to 1GB n the problem stil existed, i guess the biggest problem is the graphic bcos it was intel graphic card build in 224mb..any idea i can solve this problem??

thx

lower the graphic quality?

 

[yukita]

If it's still under warranty, give them a call.

They'll probably replace the keyboard and check the "tick" on your LCD.

anyway give them a call in the midnight yesterday. tomorrow will come to check/replace the keyboard. will ask them to check also the "tick" problem.

 

[ter_03_80]

cba to read all the previous posts, i was fed up with my inspiron 6400, i cant play dota with it cos it will lag half way when u r playing dota, i upgraded ram to 1GB n the problem stil existed, i guess the biggest problem is the graphic bcos it was intel graphic card build in 224mb..any idea i can solve this problem??

thx

is it because of your internet connection?i can play mine but lags also due to my internet speed.

 

[WhoTheFcuk]

cba to read all the previous posts, i was fed up with my inspiron 6400, i cant play dota with it cos it will lag half way when u r playing dota, i upgraded ram to 1GB n the problem stil existed, i guess the biggest problem is the graphic bcos it was intel graphic card build in 224mb..any idea i can solve this problem??

thx

Dude, DOTA is based on warcraft 3's graphic engine which was like built in the early 2000's... running it with intel's gma is plain overkill. The problem might be there's too much spam programs running in your lappy, have you checked for spyware and the works? They tend to slowly chip away at your memory and processing speed.

 

[human_shieldz]

cba to read all the previous posts, i was fed up with my inspiron 6400, i cant play dota with it cos it will lag half way when u r playing dota, i upgraded ram to 1GB n the problem stil existed, i guess the biggest problem is the graphic bcos it was intel graphic card build in 224mb..any idea i can solve this problem??

thx

Wah very unfair to Dell like this wor. So many possibilities why it lags. My fren also said his 802.11n laggy and problematic then he says linksys router no good. He said last time he use D-link even worse. But my D-link 802.11g is running extremely well, no lag and i dun even feel like i'm using wireless at all. Try closing all the useless services running in the background and see if it works better.

 

[yukita]

hi get the new keyboard already. they also replace my lcd cover (both side) ... their service are the best i ever experienced ......

when the guy come to change the keyboard, then i just realize, one of the ram is under the keyboard, and another one is accessible below. if i want to upgrade the ram, then i have to open it up again??

anyway the ram is qimonda and processor sspec is sl9u4 ......

 

[yukita]

and now of course dont have the tick problem anymore .......