inspiron n4010 primary hdd

really? i was reading the manual and the steps you have to take just to get to the primary hdd...

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This is typical for a lot of Dell's current consumer models...

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Yep



They dont want you working on it yourself

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Originally Posted by OneCool Yep They dont want you working on it yourself

I absolutely don"t get it, Being able to swap out a hdd easily is paramount.I never heard of hdd failures years ago, but today there common. Maybe because the capacities are larger. I had a hdd failure on my m1330 and just recently on my new 14r. The Seagate 500gig 5400 which came on my 14r and was replaced with the same Seagate has a very bad rep for failure.

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Almost all the new Inspirons place the drive underneath the palmrest. In reality it is like 2-3 minutes of work vs 5 seconds. It's really not that bad.

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Yeah, the evolution of placement is reaching degenerative heights.

In a desktop, no problem.

In a laptop/notebook, It is (should be) essential that HDD, RAM and extra connectors like pci-e would be just as easily accessible as the battery.



What would be next? Going back to the way of Compcraq soldering RAMsticks to the mainboard? :P



I'd prefer 2 screws and 5 seconds, than ripping off plastic, removing 3-6 screws, crowbarring with a screwdriver up the harddrive, replace it, return the keyboard, just to realize that you forgot to actually hook up the harddrive. (It is possible. I have seen people wedge a square stick into a round hole).

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i went through it and got the ssd install. now it just wont wanna boot from it lol it'll still boot from the stock hdd though. i guess it is picky. cloning it doesnt work either.

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Originally Posted by einhander i went through it and got the ssd install. now it just wont wanna boot from it lol it'll still boot from the stock hdd though. i guess it is picky. cloning it doesnt work either.

Maybe the drive is defective? Did you reinstall Windows on it properly?

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i didnt reinstal i cloned it from the stock drive. i also tried installing a fresh copy of windows 7 but there were not drivers during installation, the os can't see the drivers apparently sata drivers are needed.

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Originally Posted by einhander i didnt reinstal i cloned it from the stock drive. i also tried installing a fresh copy of windows 7 but there were not drivers during installation, the os can't see the drivers apparently sata drivers are needed.

Windows 7 shouldn't need F6 SATA drivers, only XP if your SATA operation is set to RAID/AHCI.



Sounds like your new drive is defective if your computer boots fine from the old drive..

Any USB trouble?

The main purpose for getting the m15x was for having a stable DJing platform (no audio drop outs, etc.).



I finally had time after setuping my system from scratch, to get my controller working (Native Instruments Traktor S4). However the damn system won't recognize the controller through all USB ports. Has anyone had any problems with the m15x systems recognizing a USB device? I'm trying to see if there's a known problem with a quick (or complicated) fix.



Thanks.

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That's an odd problem , i honestly havent heard of that problem before. Try to update your BIOS to A09 see if that helps. if you were to plug in a mouse USB to all your usb ports do they all work or some?

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more specifically which usb ports have issue?

the reason i say this is because the ones on the right side (next to the audio) are on a riser card connected by a ribbon cable.

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Does the device show up under device manager when it is plugged into a port that it does not work on? Perhaps with an error message or as an unidentified device?

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I am at version A09 bios, and this is the case for all my USB ports, and unfortunately it doesn't show up in device manager. I'm trying to find out if this is a laptop hardware issue, windows 7 issue, driver issue, or the S4 controller hardware issue.



So far it looks like it's not the m15x's fault

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I figured it had to do with the usb port because on ONE of the usb plug ins, I got a short beep. Windows recognized the s4, but then it didn't install the drivers because the device got "disconnected." I plugged in the usb cable a bit more than half way (but not all the way in), and I got the windows beep again! The driver installed and i was able to see the s4 connected in traktor 2 (the software). When i pushed the usb in the rest of the way i got the following error....



"The Traktor Kontrol S4 has malfunctioned and exceeded the power limits of its hub port. You should disconnect the device."







Is this an m15x issue or the S4 controller? any thoughts?

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Looks like the S4 controller was causing the power surge issues. It's being sent in for repairs.

Please delete batboy.. sorry!

Please delete batboy.. sorry!

Construction work...Ya' gotta' love it.

I had a reason to compile a list of all my employers. Over a 23 year time frame I worked on 95 jobs, for 25 different employers, many more than once. One year I worked for 7 different employers.

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I think it's the "Honey Do" company.

Many of us work for them from time to time.
Bob

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I've heard folks say they wonder why they signed on adding that there's no paycheck and the benefits are rarely what was promised.

Gotta' find a good hiding place now.

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Honey-do? Well, I never had that problem, I learned to duck for more reasons than one. ------Willy

Reply 4 : Construction work...Ya' gotta' love it.

Most people only fill out about 3 forms for a grand total of 8 pages. T1 General (4 pages) Schedule 1(Federal taxes (2 pages) Provincial taxes (2 pages). Very little figuring on any of the pages.

which of these 17" MBPs would you buy?

Trying to decide between these two 17" MBPs - based on cost, longevity, etc.



1) Core i5 2.53Ghz, 8GB DDR3, 1TB HDD, NVidia 330 512MB, High-res glossy screen - currently under the initial year warranty until May, at which point I'd need to shell out and buy Apple Care, which would take it through 2013. $1450



or



2) Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz, 8GB DDR3, 500GB HDD, Nvidia 9600 512MB, High-res AG screen - has Apple Care until April, 2012. $1150



I'm really stumped on this one. On the one hand, the 1st one would have a longer warranty and would also have the newer Core i processor. It's a great price already, but I'd need to buy Apple Care, which would run me $240. It also has the $100+ 1TB drive in it.



The second one is a great deal, wouldn't need Apple Care, but it would only be under warranty another year, and also has the older C2D processor. Anyone have any thoughts? Assuming both machines would serve my needs presently, which one would you get based on longevity and price? Or simply, which is the better deal in terms of hardware and price?



Thanks in advance.

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Originally Posted by QueenOfSpades Trying to decide between these two 17" MBPs - based on cost, longevity, etc. 1) Core i5 2.53Ghz, 8GB DDR3, 1TB HDD, NVidia 330 512MB, High-res glossy screen - currently under the initial year warranty until May, at which point I'd need to shell out and buy Apple Care, which would take it through 2013. $1450 or 2) Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz, 8GB DDR3, 500GB HDD, Nvidia 330 512MB, High-res AG screen - has Apple Care until April, 2012. $1150 I'm really stumped on this one. On the one hand, the 1st one would have a longer warranty and would also have the newer Core i processor. It's a great price already, but I'd need to buy Apple Care, which would run me $240. It also has the $100+ 1TB drive in it. The second one is a great deal, wouldn't need Apple Care, but it would only be under warranty another year, and also has the older C2D processor. Anyone have any thoughts? Assuming both machines would serve my needs presently, which one would you get based on longevity and price? Or simply, which is the better deal in terms of hardware and price? Thanks in advance.

I'm very sure that the MBPs equipped with Core2Duo CPUs come with the Nvidia 9400M/9600M GT combo & not the Nvidia GT330/Intel IGP combo.



Anyway, I'll take option 1. Good luck.

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Originally Posted by SPEEDwithJJ I'm very sure that the MBPs equipped with Core2Duo CPUs come with the Nvidia 9400M/9600M GT combo & not the Nvidia GT330/Intel IGP combo. Anyway, I'll take option 1. Good luck.

Oh yeah, you're right, that was a typo. Thanks for your advice, I'm leaning that way.

Reply 3 : which of these 17" MBPs would you buy?

It depends what your going to do with it... and if you need the better power in the more expensive one or not.

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Originally Posted by doh123 It depends what your going to do with it... and if you need the better power in the more expensive one or not.

For what I do right now, I'm sure the C2D could handle it. Some light gaming, Adobe Creative Suite, light/medium video editing. But I'd like to keep this MBP for at least a few years, which makes the i5 a little more attractive. C2D is also pretty old at this point. Still pondering, but leaning toward the i5.

Reply 5 : which of these 17" MBPs would you buy?

Option 1, IMO.

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I like option 1.

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Why does Apple limit its graphics card to below 1 GB? I have a sony from a couple years ago and it has a 512 mb card.q

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Originally Posted by shriek11 Why does Apple limit its graphics card to below 1 GB? I have a sony from a couple years ago and it has a 512 mb card.q

you'd have to learn about vram and marketing... many computer and graphics card makers will throw tons of extra ram on one so it looks better and they can up the price and make more profit off very cheap ram... even if it doesn't even improve performance at all.



The current high end 15 and the 17 are the first Mac laptops to have 1gb in them... the two the ops are looking at are both older models.

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The cards are similar of the platforms I was thinking of and I have seen my older mac lag even in firefox if video is being played unlike my windows machiens, especially with divx ones.



Now, don't tell me divx is stupid and buggy and needs to be killed off as well!

PDF Files in Skydrive

A few days ago I created a Skydrive folder so I could share some files I'm creating in a project with several other users. I wanted something which was secure, where each user could have different privilegves to see or to edit files, and which was easy for me and for the other users to use. Most of these files are PDFs, because I'm producing them wth a tool that costs quite a lot, and so far it's not justifiable for all the other users to buy the tool. It seemed a good solution to print the diagrams to PDF and share them like this. Today I was shocked to discover that viewing PDF files in a Skydrive folder is a total pain. Unlike in a normal web directory, where I can just click on a PDF file and it opens quickly in my browser using the Adobe Reader plugin, so I can immediately see the document, zoom in and out, search it for text, save it or print it, with Skydrive there seems to be no way to even see the document without explicitly downloading it first.

I guess the reason for this is that Microsoft think it's more imortant to conduct a war with Adobe than to provide services that are actually of some use to their customers.

Isthere any way of getting Skydrive to open PDF files in the users's browser if you just click, or double click them?

If this is "just the way it is", I will have to ditch Skydrive and use some other web based file sharing service which allows people to eaily open PDF files.

Thanks - Rowan

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"We know what's good for you."

Sorry I think when we use the free services we are buying into their ideas or kool aid.
Bob

Should AW come with SSD as default?

I mean, AW laptops are awesome and such, but their HDD options are the suxx...



Why not a 120GB OCZ Vertex 2 by default? And I picked this one because of quality/price but I'd be happy with Gskill, Corsair, Intel...





Opinions?

Reply 1 : Should AW come with SSD as default?

Of course they shouldn't.



Everyone knows that this would drive the base cost up. Better to simply buy one after-market and sell the original, which will be better on your pocket in the long run.

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Originally Posted by jarvmeister Of course they shouldn't. Everyone knows that this would drive the base cost up. Better to simply buy one after-market and sell the original, which will be better on your pocket in the long run.

I agree, the prices Dell offers on the factory installed SSD's isn't that great. I ordered mine with the smallest drive I could then installed my own SSD and saved some bucks.

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I think they'd much rather keep it as an optional upgrade and slap they're 300% markup on it.







Obviously it should come with the SSD as standard. It should also come with a hefty collection of free games and a neon sign to set up outside your house that says "I own an Alienware! HAH!".



Aaaaaaand then we wake up. Bugger...