Optiplex 330 two video cards
I'm attempting to support 3 monitors on an Optiplex 330 with XP SP3. I have a PCI-e PNY Geforce 9500GT (dual DVI) and a PCI EVGA Geforce 9400GT (DVI, VGA). Both cards work fine when installed alone...
View ArticlePoweredge 840 won't boot with addition of new hard drive
I have a Dell Poweredge 840 that's mainly running as a file server. It has 2x's 2TB SATA drives in a software RAID 0 via Server 2008, and a smaller ~250GB drive for the OS and applications. Today I...
View ArticleOptiplex shopper
Looking to standardize on a Dell desktop. I'll probably use Open Manage or DMC eventually, so no Vostro. Requirements: Under $1000 2 display connectors for multimonitor 3 to 6 GB RAM mini tower Nice...
View Article2 Dead Dell Precision T3500's in 2 days?!
I've had 2 Precision T3500s go belly up in 2 days, both flashing 1-3 error lights (which means a memory error according to Dell's website). Both machines also gave no BIOS error beep if I tried to get...
View ArticleDell PowerEdge 6800 XEON processor upgrade help needed
I received five Dell PowerEdge 6800 servers from another company for free. One of the servers, for example, is five years old but has 12GB RAM, 2TB disc space, and two Intel Xeon 3.00Ghz processors....
View ArticleDell PowerEdge 2950 Replacing 10K drive with 15K in Raid 10?
I have a dell PowerEdge 2950 and we are currently running RAID 10 6X300GB SAS10K. I purchased a 300GB drive but when it arrived it was a 15K. Will it work in the current array with the rest of the 10k...
View ArticleDell PowerEdge 6800 XEON processor upgrade help needed
I received five Dell PowerEdge 6800 servers from another company for free. One of the servers, for example, is five years old but has 12GB RAM, 2TB disc space, and two Intel Xeon 3.00Ghz processors....
View ArticleDell Precision T3500
Quick question for those of you running T3500 series Precisions. Do your machines take a long time >30 minutes to shut down? I have three of these machines, all purchased at different times over...
View ArticleDell Control Point, do you use or remove it ?
Hello all, Mostly I use DELL for my laptops. Laptops come with DCP software. I like the idea of managing all hardware related stuff in one place, Network, harddisk, security and so on. But I feel,...
View ArticleConsidering purchase of Dell KACE - off-network functionality
I am the new IT manager and have been at the company for just a month. We have no control of our laptops. We are said to have about 200 laptops, 90% of which are not on the network at any given time....
View ArticleLatitude D531 ATI Radeon 1270 mobile nothing but black screen on boot
Our General Manager had a Latitude D531 laptop with XP pro on it and it was causing him multiple headaches, so I set up another Latitude D531 up except with Vista Business and had it running no...
View ArticleSNMP Crashing inspiron 530s
Wasnt sure if i should post this under windows or dell, i have 3 Inspiron 530s pc's in the company and all 3 of them have started crashing at random times. This started when I installed SNMP on them,...
View Articlemy dell laptops wirerless dont work need help
need drivers for dell .my wirerless do's not work
View ArticleDell PowerConnect 2724 support in 5.0
I can't find any details beyond that one line in the release notes in 5.0. What exactly does this support entail? Can the devices only be discovered or can Spiceworks pull data and statistics from...
View ArticleDell E4200 convert from ATA to IRRT running XP SP2
We've just received our first E4200 from our staff in Maryland but the image loaded was created in ATA mode. Has anyone established a procedure from converting from ATA to IRRT so the external eSATA...
View ArticleDowngrade Win7 to XP but keep Dell recovery partition.
Can anyone tell me how to take a Dell system with Win7 pre-installed and downgrade it to WinXP whilst keeping the Recovery partition available should I need to return to Win7. the disk has three...
View ArticleAdding a third monitor to a GX620
I have a GX620 with an nVidia 9400 GT pcie video adapter installed and connected to two monitors. I need to add a third monitor. Can this be done on this pc with a 2nd adapter (pci)?
View ArticleDell power edge Large RAID 51
I have a new poweredge r510 with 2x 146 as the c and d drive and I'm supposed to Raid 51 the remaining 6 1tb drives. I'm assuming I'll have to use gpt disks which I have never setup before. Also is...
View Articledell dimension e520 desktop hangs on bios screen sometimes
I've been trouble shooting a dell dimension e520 desktop computer. Sometime is hangs at bios screen. Ive been told that it is a hard drive malfunction, I suspect that the bios firmware needed an...
View ArticleDell C521 no display
Hello everyone, Today at work I was trying to upgrade the Dell Bios through the executable file that dell provides, about 25% of the way through the upgrade lock, and restarted my machine. Now when it...
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