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Can I use the machine on its side. I can't use the CD/DVD player in that position. Thank you

Dear Dell's Support Forum: Briarguy here, just south of Boston, and today I have an Inspiron 530, I received as a gift to replace my last PC hand made (I am really more used to buildiing my desktop PC, since 1992) which ceased to operate in late July

I entered a discussion yesterday with a Dell REP with the purchase of a double-HDMI graphics card for my Dimension 8300. Is it true that only graphics cards that sell Dell will work in this model of computer?  They don't sell any double-HDMI are comp

Is the XPS-8500 SATA 3.0 mSATA slot?

First off the coast, I want to say that I'm not very good with computers, and it was the first time that I never opened my computer case. I bought a pci wifi card for my alienware 51(not knowing it didn't have a pci slot) x and tried to install it. A

I am www.dell.com/.../diagnose and want to download manuals, but it seems that your site does not allow me to do. How can I get textbooks?

I want to upgrade the CPU, graphics card and ram. I'm new on this but my bios is 1.0.5 I don't know he should be updated... it has a processor intel celeron 420 @ 1.6 ghz and 1 GB of ram, videocard stock, I found a compatible 400w PSU. Where would I

For some reason, the hyperlink, I entered my previous post has been corrupted. Here it is again: TechNet.Microsoft.com/.../dn336946.aspx

Took the laptop to the shop. Once home, I realized they gave me the power cable bad. Mine had a round piece that connected to the computer. It has eight sides, always adapts, but obviously not one specified for my machine. Is this a problem? The repa

I just bought a desktop computer repackaged GX620 and advised to install a hard drive platter in vacant space just below the DVD drive.  This should allow to change the hard drive without opening the case. Problem is that to properly install the Boar

I had a problem with loading a game, so I decided to restart my alien ware A4. The screen never lights, nor the key board, the only thing that seems to happen is the Tower lights and some fans seem to be running. So far, I have confirmed that the mon

Diagnosis showed that my hard drive on my Inspiron 7737 fails after 3 mos.  Dell sent me a new and I think I should send them my current.  How safe is it?  Which should remove before you send it again?  Automatic connections, etc. ? Thank you

Hello I recently bought a DELL XPS 8700 desktop computer. Recently, I noticed that there is this orange light shining inside even when I shut down my PC. I opened it and realized that it's this LED power on the motherboard. Maybe I've just not notice

I just bought the MFS 790 and the Bios A05 level; According to the website of Dell support for this pc, I should be in bios A18. But, read the instructions on several levels of the bios, I need flash to the A10 bios level until I can't keep A18. Is t

Here's what I saw: Fan to high speed + beepI would have 4 or open several tabs in Mozilla Firefox. Then all of a sudden my monitor will be failure resulting from my computer on high-speed only fan... I hold the power button to turn off, and when back

Looking for assistance Have a Dell Studio 540MT (purchased in 2009), worked great until 2 weeks ago.   After a temporary system failure would not start.    The power light itself is green fixed.   The power button on the front panel is completely rel

I have a question about the re-formatting. I have the 546 Inspiron with Windows Vista that I bought in 2009, still works fine. If I need to reformat my computer to the factory State, do I also need to install the CD Drivers and Utilities also? In the

Just bought two Inspiron One 2320 Dell Outlet. The one with the Pentium processor and no touch screen came with a power supply cord has a continuous blue light to the stem of the rope through the computer. The one with the i3 processor and a touch sc

As soon as I turn on my 530 Inspiron from Dell with Windows Vista Home Edition s, have at all times a series of 4 beeps.  The CD sounds like it is running, but nothing appears on the monitor.  I tried to find out what to do about the area of troubles

I tried to clean the power supply fan, when I have done a\was I tried to put everything back and turn on the computer. When I did, I got this message.   I've seen other messages saying it was the video card and the other said it was the processor.