my vostro 1310 was great... running smoothly on the vista home basic.................................

idiot vista made me furious bcoz i can't put it on LAN with my XP comp

the only choice right now is to transform my vostro to XP, or to scrap that desktop into a vista

why can't they LAN properly

anyway, i like the vostro for it's simplistic design, uber cool reflective metallic colour-like top and the truelife screen. BUT NOT THE MONO-SPEAKER!

Waaah, thanks man for the info.
My friend said he had enough with Vista in his laptop and prefer Windows XP to be installed.
Despite favourable hardware specifications his softwares run like 90's computer.
Then I noticed Windows setup did not recognize the hard-drive of the laptop.

Yup, by using split-stream the task was easy enough.
So long Vista.

all my vostros are xp's, haha, i dont think i can live with vista, though one of my latitude d630 is vista basic

well vista did improve a lot after sp1
just that some ppl still not used to the "no more new" vista
me, personally, wont switch back to xp anymore

This post has been edited by chika138: Nov 24 2008, 06:58 PM

my vostro 1400 dead yesterday. It's been sick since Monday. Most probably because the 8400m gs issue. Poor lappie.

Hopefully the doctor will arrive early today to fix it.

-A bit disappointed with the reliability. Only 11 months then it's dead. Luckily i have 3 years warranty. So i guess it's will be replace 2 more times before the warranty end.

no no it's not Dell's fault
it's a global defect, affecting other brands also as long as they use Nvidia 8-series
i got lucky cuz it spoilt exactly 2 weeks before my warranty ended
And it should solve the problems
Nvidia forked up USD200M to replace new chips for the faulty NVidia GC worldwide

Me too..
I also won't switch back to XP.
Now, my Vostro1.4 tri-boot with Vista+Ubuntu+Leopard.

wa tri-boot?
how big is ur internal HDD?

250GB only.
Primary = Ubuntu
Secondary = Vista
I installled Leopard for testing purpose (still got problem with audio and wireless drivers).



This post has been edited by xphr3ak: Nov 28 2008, 11:33 PM

big enough la 250gb
mine just 120gb even dual-boot also not so feasible
wow ubuntu as primary
u use it mainly for working purpose?

i just format and install windows XP pro for my friend 1400 but i cant install display adapter intel 965. i had install all driver from dell and intel but still cant solve the problem. anyone here using onboard display adapter. can you give me the driver please. i had download since yesterday

This post has been edited by turbovtec: Nov 29 2008, 08:52 AM

i notice several things after the dell technician replace my motherboard/graphic card

1. Temperature during playing game < 80C (Last time it's over 90)

2. For the first time in the game it says my current setting is too high although i have try to set the lowest setting (before this i never encounter that)

3. After wakeup from hibernate it keeps give warning about my power adapter not set correctly (this will happen everytime after hibernate. Not during startup/restart). Dell phone support ask me just to restart my laptop.

4. I doubt Dell is replacing a new motherboard. I got the feeling that the motherboard is the refurbished motherboard. Somemore when the dell technician open the laptop i can see the chasis frame got a lot of writing that don't look appropriate.

I can say i give 2 stars out of 5 for the problem solution provided by dell.

actually i also think the motherboard is refurbished 1
what most probably they do is take back the previous motherboard with faulty GC, and refurbish
then put in the fixed GC, put it in into ur laptop
take out ur motherboard and refurbish
the cycle goes on
just what i think la, not sure they really do so la

Guys, do u think its time to have a V2?

anyone have idea where is the 2 ram slot for vostro 1500??

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Added on December 8, 2008, 12:26 pmThis thread will close. Please continue in V2.

This post has been edited by raul: Dec 8 2008, 12:26 PM