Dell say to remove battery which I did. Then to loosen the M2.5 x 5 mm captured screw (what is that?) Is that the thing that is on right side and is in the "cutout" of the media bay and ejects when
pushed (not the media bay).
When upside I see a hole on the right side and about half way up. And the last step is to slide the cover away (I am assuming that
I remove 5 screws on the cover itself (the 4 on the left and one in the center).
I'm in the processes of cleaning out my XPS Gen2 for the first time since 2005 (yes yes I know...) because it started shutting down during some games. The question I have is related to the heat pads on the video card memory, FETs, and on the chipset heatsink. I know these things suck. I want to use AS5 in place of them but there is a gap between the heatsinks and the memory/chipset/fets when you remove them. How have you guys gotten around this? Is there a better version of a heat pad and where would I get them?
I am in a bt of quandry, my Dell XPS 1710 switches itself off after 5 min automatically; I know its not the dust cause I have just opened and cleaned the heatsinks yesterday; the only other thing I can think of is the thermal compund on the cpu might have dried!
A bit on the problem then for your suggestions; after about 5 min - max my laptop switches off automatically!
sometimes the system leds stay on while the monitor goes lank and systems looks like it has powered off; while at other times even the system leds and the toucpad leds goes off along with the system!
I have a Probook 4730s with Windows 7. I continue to get the following error after the computer starts up -  hpConnectionManager.exe  Cannot load assembly: System.Data.SQLite, Version=1.0.61.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyTolken=db937bcd44ff139  The application will now exit.  It does not appear to have a negative impact but it is annoying get this at each start up.
Re HP Pavilion g7 Notebook PC, Windows 8, 64-bit.  I want to be able to safely remove a USB thumb-drive without shutting down the computer. There is no icon for "Safely Remove Hardware" as on other computers I have. I have not been able to find the program or its icon using "search" or "find". It is not indexed in the user guide.Â
This is a repost of a thread I posted on tabletpcreview's forums. It seems like nobody there knows or the forum is on its way out- almost 100 views with no replies.
So the story is that I'm getting tired of plugging in 4-5 wires every time I go to class or want to study away from home, and a docking station would solve this problem. Unfortunately, the official XT2 mediabase that Dell support wants me to buy is $270. That's almost 25% the cost of this machine! (Part number H266H) There's also another part on Dell.com that might be $199. Either way, that's a lot of money for a pretty basic port replicator.
The other thing is that when I google "XT2 mediabase", the first hit is a Dell PDF of a manual for the XT2 mediabase. The part number indicated there is PR12S. However, PR12S is the part number for the XT mediabase as well! The PR12S can be ordered online for anywhere between $20-80, so I'd much rather buy it, if it works.
Can someone confirm (ie you own an XT2 and the PR12S or have access to these two parts) whether the XT2 can work mostly flawlessly with the PR12S? I can deal with bypassing an error message, but I need the ports to work. Mainly, the DVI, VGA, ethernet, USB, and audio.
Today I upgraded from Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit to Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and all of my drivers were found without me needing to install anything except for one. In the device manager I have an exclamation by 'Base System Device
i'm going to buy one is it worth to buy base on the quality?
dell Latitude E6400 $1,663 * • Intel® Core™ 2 Duo P8600 (2.40GHz, 3M L2 Cache, 1066MHz FSB) * • Genuine Windows Vista® Business 64-BIT SP1, With media * • 3 Year Limited Warranty and 3 Year Mail-in Service * • 14.1" UltraSharp™ WXGA+ (1440x900) LED Display - Brush Metal Black * • NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M With Express Card * • 4.0GB, DDR2-800 SDRAM, 2 DIMMS * • Internal English Backlit Keyboard * • No Intel® vPro™ Secure Advanced Hardware Enabled Systems Management * • Integrated Webcam with digital microphone * • 250GB Hard Drive, 7200RPM with Free Fall Sensor * • 8X DVD+/-RW w/Roxio and Cyberlink PowerDVD™ * • Intel® WiFi Link 5300 802.11a/g/n Draft Mini Card * • Dell Wireless® 370 Bluetooth Module * • No Modem
I've been researching for several days about replacing a fried motherboard in my Inspiron 9300, and I have began to wonder, if I could not just transplant it's guts into a 9400 base.
I see that 9300 Mobo's and base are practically the same cost as 9400 mobos and base.
Having a 9400 Mobo would allow me upgrades in the future that my 9300 would not and that idea makes me happy.
I'm hoping someone might be able to answer me having done this themselves .....
I did a clean install of Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate a month ago and everything is running well. However, I've noticed in Device Manager that there is an unidentified base device which is lacking a driver. Here is the info:
Device Type: other devices Manufacturer: unknown Location: PCI bus 9, device 1, function 3 Device Status: The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28)
To find a driver for this device, click Update Driver.
Updating the driver through both the internet and searching through my computer has not found a driver. Any ideas on what the issue might be?
My Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop is missing two driver Base System Device is what they are called. I have downloaded every driver on the site for this laptop yet I still am missing these two. I re-installed Windows Vista  Home Premium and now I'm missing drivers that I can't find.
If your base enclosure (the bottom chassis cover) gets accidentally damaged, what happens to the service tag when you replace that part yourself?
You see, that part carries the service tag on it for warranty purposes. I know the mobo is also tagged (tattoo'd) with the service tag info, but then what happens if the mobo dies, and you have replaced the bottom cover?
My guess is that you could peel off the service tag from the old part and somehow glue it onto the new one, which wouldn't be very nice.
Also what would HP do if they were carrying out the repair?
I recently installed Windows 7 on my vostro 1015. All the drivers were installed correctly but the 'Base System Device' driver couldn't be installed. I tried the 'Search Automatically for the updated driver software' option but no driver could be found. where can I find the 'Base System Device' driver?
I currently use an orange livebox for the wireless at home, signal is great everywhere except in my bedroom, where I would really like to have access to the internet, but am currently just out of range.
Am i right in thinking that the said item increases the range of the current wifi meaning i could connect to the internet in my room?
I setup the dual band Airport extreme station a few weeks ago and my Macbooks Pros have been working no problems. Blazing speeds.
When it comes to my 2 desktop PCs, though, a lot of problems.
My one PC connects and says it is connected, but the internet does not work. The page does not display at all.
My other PC (which Im on right now), also connects, but only Firefox works. IE does not display the page. I think FIrefox does work on both PCs, I just dont have it installed on the first one to verify.
What is going on? Even my iphone works flawlessly.
im asking this because i see many other 13inch notebooks supporting it but on the sony vaio sr website it only lists 10base t and 100base tx not 1000base...
I have a machine (used for creating master images) with all the drivers loaded. I perform a last CloneZilla image (before doing the sysprep). When I restore the image (to the same machine) the Ricoh Card reader has status of Base System Device under Other Devices. I have tried reapply the drivers, deleting the device with drivers and rebooting so that the machine can redetect the device. No luck, just stays at Base System Device.
trying to locate the "Base System Device" driver for my laptop HP Elitebook 8570p, I have google and tried different .exe files but none of them worked, downloaded all the driver from the HP driver page for this model but no avail.
I currently have a  HP ProBook 4540s Notebook PC(Energy Star) laptop and found that my Base System Device Drivers  are missing. I have been trying very hard to find them but to no avail.
I have probook 4540s and i installed windows 7 prof. (X64) i have the following problems in the device manager: Â 1- base system device (Location: PCI Slot 2 (PCI bus 3, device 0, function 0)) 2- base system device (Location: PCI Slot 2 (PCI bus 3, device 0, function 3)) 3- unknown device (location: on PCI bus) Â Those are the three drivers ...
I am getting two error messages that read "Base system device" driver missing. Â The hardware Ids for the first is: Â PCIVEN_1180&DEV_E230&SUBSYS_1726103C&REV_01 PCIVEN_1180&DEV_E230&SUBSYS_1726103C PCIVEN_1180&DEV_E230&CC_088000 PCIVEN_1180&DEV_E230&CC_0880 Â And the other one is: Â PCIVEN_1180&DEV_E852&SUBSYS_1726103C&REV_01 PCIVEN_1180&DEV_E852&SUBSYS_1726103CPCIVEN_1180&DEV_E852&CC_088000PCIVEN_1180&DEV_E852&CC_0880
I'm using HP ProBook 4730s, product A1E71EA. I recently installed windows 7 ultimate x64 and I went to install my drivers. There i have two of them that say 'base system device' when i try to automatically update them using upade driver it says that it cannot do it.Also i have there one that says network controller, one is universal serial bus, pci simple communication and an unknown device.
I got this base system device error in my device manager. I have installed X1 Ricoh multicard reader but still can't solve it. Â My machine is X1-3444-BDU, Win 7 pro 64bit.
Recently I did a clean windows 732 bit installation on my Hp dv2500 notebook because i was having some problem with the original vista OS. Anyway I noticed that, under device manager 3 drivers were missing...namely:  Base system device Base system device Coprocessor
I've just recently upgraded my system from XP to Win 7 and I've been unable to find drivers for two "base system devices". I'm on a Compaq Presario V3440TU and my CPU is a Core 2 Duo T5300, and chipset is Intel 945GM. Â The missing drivers are most probably for the Ricoh Card reader in my laptop, since I remember facing the same problem while re-installing XP once...
1.PCIVEN_1180&DEV_0592&SUBSYS_30B2103C&REV_0APCIVEN_1180&DEV_0592 &SUBSYS_30B2103CPCIVEN_1180&DEV_0592&CC_088000PCIVEN_1180&DEV_0592&CC_0880 Â 2.PCIVEN_1180&DEV_0843&SUBSYS_30B2103C&REV_01PCIVEN_1180&DEV_0843 &SUBSYS_30B2103CPCIVEN_1180&DEV_0843&CC_088000PCIVEN_1180&DEV_0843&CC_0880
