Can a 300GB 15K RPM SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) Hard Drive work/be configured if i put it in an extra slot on a server that uses a DELL PERC 6/i Integrated RAID Controller?
I recently updated to Windows 7 64-bit from XP on my Dell Latitude D830. Now I am not able to watch dvd's because it says the video card does not support DirectX 9.0. Is there an easy way to fix this or do I have to find a new video card?
I have a Dell All-in-One 810 printer from years ago and only recently installed it (a few months ago).
Later I had reason to uninstall and re-install the printer but whenever I connect the printer Windows installs the printer drivers from its cache without the CD.
How can I remove all traces of the drivers from the cache so that it will install…
Apologies in advance for the lengthy question.
We have a Dell PowerEdge R720 server with:
2 x 136GB SAS drives in RAID 1 for the OS (Ubuntu Server 12.04)
6 x 3TB SATA drives in RAID 5 for data
A few days ago we were getting errors when trying to access files on the large RAID 5 partition. We rebooted the server and got a message about the…
I'm using linux fedora 12 dell inspiron 1545 . But today suddenly touch goes weird.
Few things
I can't click( say menu ) - but clicking on firefox tab closes it.
scrolling works.
I have a Dell XPS Laptop (l501x). I have replaced the original Seagate 500GB hard drive with an SSD Intel 320 120GB when I first purchased it a year ago. It's been working great. The laptop is booting in about 23 seconds, so the SSD is great. I have an Acronis image created that I came back to every three months just to keep everything clean.…
when i install windows server2003 x64 i recieved this message "attempting to load an x64 operating system , however this CPU is not compatible with x64 mode .
so please i need to solve this problem on my laptop dell 1525
I'm using linux fedora 12 dell inspiron 1545 . But today suddenly touch goes weird.
Few things
I can't click( say menu ) - but clicking on firefox tab closes it.
scrolling works.
I cannot seem to find or get the required drivers for Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 on windows 8 64bit on my Dell N7010 Laptop
I have wifi connectivity but all i get is max G speeds and no N speeds, transfering files on mapped drives is really slow as a result, this wasnt the case before, i dont care about wimax, but even those…
Every time I suspend or resume my laptop (Dell Latitude E6520, bought this year), I get 2 messages of the form displayed on the console just before shutting down/starting up:
[ 407.107610] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: dma_pool_free buffer-128, f6f18000/36f18000 (bad dma)
On occasion, I get a message of the form:
[ 3753.979066] do_IRQ:…
I have a dell laptop with ubuntu linux. A day I tried to start it up and a black screen just appeared that says:
GNU GRUB version1.98+20100804-5ubuntu3
(and these clickable options:)
-Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.35-22-generic
-Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.35-22-generic (recovery mode)
-Memory test (memtest86+)
-Memory test (memtest86+,…
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 on several Dell c6220 servers. The install was successful and all hardware is recognized.
The problem that I am running into is that when issuing the reboot command or when pressing ctrl-alt-del, the server shuts down, but never comes back up. Instead, the fan revs up to full speed and stays that way…
I have a DELL studio XPS 13 (aka 1340) as of 12.04 most things run smoothly out of the box, but I have some power draining and warmness issues (if not to be called terrible heat issues)
The system came with a NVIDIA GeForce 9500M (which has Hybrid SLI) and it shows up in "lspci" as these 2 cards
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller:…
I've plugged in a projector into my laptop and I'm attempting to extend the desktop onto it (so that I can run a full screen app on the projector and have the controls on my laptop).
I'm able to mirror the screens effectively (it does this by default) but I can't extend it. When I untick "Mirror screens" and press apply it asks me…
so I recently had my question deleted and merged into a standard how to for blank screens.
I am relatively new to This type of computer work and i don't understand the steps nessary to diagnose my problem well enough to solve it so this help full how to has me feeling helpless
I can use Ctrl + Alt +F1 and log in
So how do I…
Im a first-time user to Ubuntu-12.04 with WUBI installation.
My NoteBook Information : Dell vostro 3450 : i5 2410m, 3 gb ram, intel hd3000, amd 6630m hybrid.
Surfing and playing games works flawlessly, however, I'm having huge problems when installing applications and generally copying and moving files.
When doing so, system is…
I have 13.04 on a Dell Inspiron 1564 with Broadcom 4312 WiFi card. The wl drivers cause kernel panic on linux-3.8 so I succesfully installed the b43 driver a couple of months ago. Now I have changed ISP and got a new router, and the connection drop when downloading software from internet to a 2008r2 using Remmina Client, and…
I'm looking into a docking station for a Dell Studio laptop. I don't see the traditional docking stations I'm familiar with - the kind (for a Dell Latitude, for example) where you sit the laptop on top of a long row of pins. Instead, I'm seeing a lot of USB docking stations.
When I close my laptop, I want it to go into…
My 1.5 year old Dell Studio 15 notebook computer has a battery and I keep it attached to the notebook but 98% of the time I just plug in the power adapter.
Lately when I unplugged the power adapter, the battery was only good for 10 minutes, and a few days ago, when I unplugged the power adapter, the computer simply…
I have recently purchased a new office desktop PC from Dell with OEM version of Windows 7 Pro and Office 2010 Pro.
One of the reasons I always use Dell is that they always supply installation media CDs or DVDs, unlike some other companies that just give you ISO images on the hard disk that you have to burn…
Dell doesn't seem to offer 64 bit drivers specifically for the Inspiron 1720 (laptop). I'm going to be upgrading from Vista 32-bit to Windows 7 64bit and I want to pull down the necessary stuff before hand.
Are there any Dell systems that are similar enough to the Inspiron 1720 that I can use for a…
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I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop which display stopped working all of the sudden. It started to show a purple fog pattern along with some color vertical lines. I talked to Dell support and they told me that is a screen gone bad and I should get a new one which I did.
But surprisingly the…
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I am inheriting a Dell Dimension 8200, but it needs RAM to get up and running. I have PC3200 sticks lying around, but I am not sure how to go about figuring out if the RAM is compatible, as RAM has always confused me. Here is the Dell Dimension 8200 Tech Specs:…
I am running a java application using this wrapper service yajsw. The problem it just stopped without any error in its logs file. So I was wondering will there be any system log file which will indicate the cause of it going down?
Partial of the log file.
Apr 6 00:12:20…
I'm trying to set up wireless on vostro 1520 dell laptop, with latest Ubuntu install. Here's the output of some of the commands that I was told to run:
lshw -C network
viggy@ubuntu:~$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network …