I am using I8kfangui, and it makes it so my GPU and CPU NEVER hit past 80c. However, when the fan goes full blast, it does so and then pauses for a split second, then starts back up, etc. I heard this is because of the BIOS not allowing it to stay full blast constantly. Does this hurt my fan?
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I treated myself to Crysis on Friday night. What a mistake. OK, so I havent got a 3 way SLI rig, water cooled MOFO of a PC. I just have a 7950GTX, dual core 2.0 GHz 1710.
But boy, does Gears of War look amazing on 1400 resolution, so this is going to be OK.
I cant even get the thing running smoothly on low, never mind medium. I have even tweaked the system.cfg file to disable shadows etc. and it still runs like a Pig.
This is lazy programming in my opinion. To write a game that cant run on medium looking half decent, and with decent FPS is just pure lazy. They write this for the minority, not the majority. GOW on the other hand is excellent, they obviously used every trick in the book to get this to look amazing on reasonable spec PCs.
I could of course be wrong, and my computer is screwed...and you are all loving Crysis...in wihch case tell me your secrets!
By the way.....dont make a game that means every scene has 10 million leaves in it.....dont assume we are all millionaires
I have the 1505 with XP and the Intel wireless card....lately my connection blows!!
I don't know if it's because there are 3 of us on the wireless?
We have a linksys wireless router and I changed the channel to 11 just in case the neighbors (duplex) were on the same channel causing interference.
But still it will go very slowly sometimes the router is upstairs (desktop is up there) and i'm in a downstairs bedroom....it says I have a Low connection.
I called the cable company thinking it had something to do with that and it wasn't.
Is there anything I can do on my part to make it stronger possibly a program or refreshing an IP or messing with router settings?
I have the fujitsu MHW2120BJ G2 (120gb).
used HD Tune and it says the HD is at 51 C .
I am getting a new hard drive for my dell inspiron 1520 and i am planing to get a 500gb one.
I found this on newegg and wondering if it will work or if I should order it from somewhere else.
Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD5000BEVT 500GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Notebook Hard Drive - OEM
I recently replaced the SATA hard drive on my new Inspiron 1525 under warranty. Now Dell wants me to return the old drive, which I'd gladly do except for the fact that there is sensitive financial and password info on the drive.
I am not able to access the info by mounting the old drive as an axillary drive and therefore cannot overwrite the data on the drive.
The drive is currently sandwiched between two large magnets in hopes of scrambling the data, however, I cannot send the drive in without knowing for certain that the data is inaccessible
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View 9 Replies View RelatedMy m1530 will not boot up anymore, its hangs on the loading vista screen, then restarts and runs windows startup repair. When that runs the hard drive makes a lot of noise, like the usual sound when its reading but a lot louder.
has anyone heard this problem before, its out of warrenty, will i need to buy a new hard drive?
I haven't posted in quite a while. Recently my Vostro 1700 has been making some clicking noises that really sound like hard drive clicking.
I hear them once or twice every hour, although the computer's performance remains perfectly normal. At first I thought it was an OS issue but I downgraded to XP and then upgraded back up to Vista and the clicking sound remains.
Could this really be hard drive clicking? The computer is just over a year old (Dec. 2007) and has the 250GB 5400RPM hard drive.
it feels like something is blocking my eject key (and sometimes my L-shift key). Nothing that I know have is fallen through the keyboard...
I'm guessing I can't take off keys from a laptop keyboard. Is the best course of action to call dell? I don't really want to send away my laptop, but I may have no choice...
It's a Studio 1555 if this matters
I have one of these laptops here. Works very well running at 2ghz with 4 gigs of ram. I want to upgrade the HDD. I took off the cover of the HDD and it says 5400 ATA/IDE drive.
Question is this: Can I install a SATA II or an SATA drive?
Currently I have a 60gb 7200 drive and I'm constantly battling for disk space and I regularly have to move files off on to my desktop to reserve space. The last straw was just last week I wanted to install all of the Orange Box and well that's like half my hard drive. I had to remove my entire mp3 and photo collection and uninstall a ton of crap to find room for it.
Anyway, I'd like to get a bigger hard drive. 100+ gig minimum. I'd like to stay with a 7200 rpm drive but it seems from some threads around here that you can get virtually the same performance from the larger 5400 drives. If that's the case, I don't really care which speed it is.
Is there a certain formfactor for the drive I'm looking for? Certain brands? Anyone who's upgraded the harddrive in this system have any advice? Most of the threads I found regarding new harddrives are on the newer Dell systems; and mine is a few years old.
I suppose an external drive is always an option; but like another post here it'd have to be usb powered as I need it to be fully portable and carrying another power cord around just isn't gonna work. I've never had any experience with external drives however; though I imagine they work identical to an internal for all normal purposes. How about speed though? Are they feasable to run games off of or can you pretty much only use them for file storage?
It seems ideally I'd minimum want to upgrade my internal drive with 100+gig drive and then possibly also get an external drive later. So knowing that what should I be looking for for an internal drive upgrade. Can anyone give me any models or links to good ones or where I should be looking?
I just got my M1530 a couple of days ago and I have a few concerns and I wondered if you would be kind enough to comment on.
This is my spec:
XPS M1530 CORE 2 DUO T9300 2.50GHz,800,6MDisplay 15.4" UltraSharp Widescreen WSXGA+ (1680x1050) TFT with TrueLifeMemory Dual Channel 4.0GB (2x2048) 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAMHard Drive: 320GB Free Fall Sensor (7200RPM)8xDVD+/-RW Slim Slot-Load Drive,
including SWBattery XPS Primary 6-cell 56WHr Li-IonGraphics Card 256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 8600M GTIntegrated Sound Blaster Audigy ADVANCED HD Audio
Firstly, I notice that my hard drive (I assume the hard drive is located on the left palmrest side) always appears to be spinning loudly enough for me to notice. Is this normal? It also makes weird clicky noises intermittently and I have no idea why.
The CPU fan seems to be on an awful lot. I have a Gateway MT6821 and the fan only comes on under heavy load, with the dell it's on almost all the time.
Finally, build quality - I have noticed that the trim that sits around the LCD panel is about 2-3mm away from the screen on the left side. Is this acceptable or should I return and ask for a replacement laptop?
i have a inspiron e1705. i dont not have many big programs. some of them include Age of Empires III and an expansion pack, itunes, garmin software for my gps, java, office (excel, powerpoint and word), firefox and ie,
wd anywhere backup, avast! anti-virus, mp3 rocket, apple qucktime, spy-bot, etc.. i am pretty sure that these are all up-to-date. i have sp 2 installed... (is there a third one?).
i also have many pictures and videos (17.3 gb for pictures, 47.4 gb for music, and 8.6gb for videos). i do not have too many documents.
i have also just recently formatted my computer. any ideas as to why it is so full, and how i can create more room? do i just have to delete some things?
i have a question to all the mini 9 owners with the 8gb ssd harddrive
how much gb do you get when you receive your computer from the factory? (nothing installed), does the os and pre-installed software takes a lot of space?
i am going to get a 8gb one, but i don't know if it would be too small..
i read the review, you can upgrade the ssd harddrive to a larger one in the future, anyone know how big does it support? and how to installed xp on there?
What hard drive does the M1730 come with stock? Also is it SATA or PATA?
I was wondering if I should get in on this deal to anticipate getting a M1730 someday, or if the M1730 drive is the same/better.
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"HITACHI Travelstar 320GB SATA II 7200 RPM 16MB Buffer Mobile Hard Drive"
when i start my laptop i straight to media direct and it show me can't detect hard drive.
when i try to reformat, it can format it, but when i install windows. it say, some drive meet criteria can't finish installation. @@
after that i try delete my partition c:. when i recreate. it can't
after restart 1 times. and it can create partition. but it can't install windows also.
Does the M4400 support 12.5mm hard drives such as the WD WD10TPVT 1TB hdd?
View 6 Replies View Relatedmy seagate freeagent desktop 500 gb external hard drive decided to go tits up on me today. i know it isnt a dell specific question, but i fine the dell owners are generally the smartest people
anyways, all my pictures are on there... ya, i know i should have back ups, and believe me i am kicking myself right now, and i actually did back it up, and thought i was ok, but i guess i formatted that drive a bit ago and forgot to replace the backed up stuff.
it was making a faint clicking sound and wasn't seen by my laptop at all, so i began doing research and found out the light sometimes does something so disconnecting it most likely would fix it. i took it apart and disconnected the light, no joy... so i took it completely apart and plugged it directly into my desktop, and it made that faint clicking sound... so, now i assume the actual drive is really bad, but i have never had a hd fail on me so completely, so who knows?
I want to replace the 60gb that came in my Latitude with a larger one; I saw the "Western Digital Scorpio Black WD3200BEKT 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Notebook Hard Drive -
OEM" and the "Seagate Momentus 7200.3 ST9320421AS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Notebook Hard Drive (Bare drive) - OEM"
Which one do you recommend I get?
Purchased a new Vostro 1520 with an encrypted capable hard drive, how do I enable full drive encryption? Dell technical support were less than helpful.
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy WD 320gb hard drive failed for the first time since I got it in January by registering the error 2000 0141.
I phoned dell after it wouldn't turn on again and I reseated the drive, took out battery, powered on to discharge static etc.,
he arranged for a replacement drive to be sent on monday. after that I tried again last night and now it works., typing from it now, and no noises or anything seems to be functioning fine!
So, what should i do now?
install the new drive & all my software - real pain, but knowing new drive won't fail? did the error message mean my current drive is on the way out anyway?
I just bought a Dell Inspiron 17 with a 350 GB HDD. It is partitioned into C: and D: drives.
The C: drive has about 50 GB and the D: about 300 GB. All of the user files are in the smaller C: drive.
1. Wouldn't it be better to have the user files in the larger side?
2. Can this be changed?
3. What do you recommend?
Can't locate info on the "mobility SSD" drives.
Are they 2.5 or 3.5? 1.8?
I've had this hard drive for quite a while now. I leave my laptop on pretty much 24/7 and was just wondering how the health of my HD is. I have a lot of important stuff on this and I was thinking of just buying a new HD and putting this into storage for safekeeping.
Here are some stats from Everest:
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Can you tell anything from this? Is there a chance it could die soon?
I was thinking of getting the Hitatchi 200GB 7.2k RPM 16MB buffer HD but it's quite expensive. Has anyone any experience with this drive?
Is the 1920X1280 really hard to see? I'm trying to decide between that and the 1440X900
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am attempting to upgrade the hard drive on my Dell 1505 laptop. It has 80GB which is now filled. I want to get a 160GB, 200GB or perhaps even higher (if not too expensive) and have searched the threads here, and researched sites like Newegg to get an idea of what is out there. I wanted to spend around $100 or so. I know I need SATA but other than that, I am wondering..
1. Should I get 1.5 Gb/s or 3.0 Gb/s? What does this mean?
2. Should I get 5400 or 7200? It seems 7200 is a bit more expensive. (Currently I have 5400 and am happy with it.) Not sure I'd notice the difference with 7200.
3. What brands should I look at? Hitachi, Seagate, WD etc. Any to stay away from?
4. Most importantly, based on all of this, any specific suggestions? ...
I was just wondering if it was possible to upgrade the hard drive on the dell mini 9's to a larger NON solid state drive, or do you have to put in a solid state drive for it to work?
View 10 Replies View RelatedMy XPS had the 320GB 5400rpm Samsung drive (HM320JI) which seems to have died a few months into ownership. Dell to its credit very quickly shipped me a replacement that I just received. Two concerns I have, that I could use some advice on,
One, the static bag the drive was in had *REFURBISHED* on it. This was a little concerning and I was not sure what the warranty was. I contacted support via chat and got the following:
Agent (LIBx Mario 191505): "Okay, based on the records, you have an XPS M1530 with a warranty up to 2011-06-23,basically it was labeled refurbished because the harddrive was opened from the packaging and had to be tested before leaving the warehouse,this is done so that the reported problem would not occur on the replacement part.also the operating system was installed that's why once a part has been opened from its packaging we can no longer label it brandnew.As far as for the warranty, as long as you do have your warranty on, all parts that may have issues or would need replacement would be covered by the warranty as long as its within the warranty info..................
I have a problem in bootin my inspiron 14z. Everytime when I start the boot, it always stuck at Dell logo. Sometime, it said that internal hard disk drive not found to resoldve this issue, try to reseat the drive. The system was running well just until last night.
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