Hello there,

my name's Andy and I'm a new 1520 Inspiron black owner and fan from middle Europe.

I got my laptop two weeks ago and screwed win vista after couple of days while trying to
use partition magic (although the OS warning me). So, I deleted everything and installed
a fresh copy of Win XP pro w/ SP2.

Got all the drivers, so there are no errors or questionmarks under device manager or
event manager. The BIOS is also tunned as some of you mentioned in the first post. Also, it's flashed and up to date.
Everything's looks pretty smooth and cosy. But...

I haven't got much of opportunities to burn CDs or DVDs recently until today. I try and burn a CD-R only to
find out that it's empty. Actually, my girlfriend can see it's empty on her asus laptop while mine laptop
gets tired of trying to read something from the CD it wrote to. I tried switching the media to Verbatim CD-R and still no luck.
And while I was trying to verify data written, Nero prompted that it will discontinue error check due to too much errors.
Oh wel... I've read that Nero 7 is kinda buggy... Next Nero 7 was removed from the system. I will probably try to burn
once again using Nero 6 but... I doubt that it will help. Just didn't attempt to write any of DVD yet.

A couple of minutes ago I erased one of my 4X speed CD-RWs using Windows XP integrated right-mouse-menu command and then
dragged and dropped a video of 150MB. Burned with no errors, but still, could only open it to see it's empty.

What's the problem guys? Any ideas? Faulty writer? Any other solutions than bringing the laptop to the service center?

In any case, I got error log from Nero. Maybe that could explain in more details if anybody would be willing to help.

A million thanks in advance. I would appreciate any input.

A.

p.s. the two attachements: the log and the picture, generated while Nero6 failed to check the written CD-RW.
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to all gurus-gurus, sifus-sifus, cikgus-cikgus

i'll be getting my dell inspiron 1520 this friday, based on my upcoming machine what must-gave software, utilities that i should get??

C2D T7300 2.0G 800FSB
Ultrasharp WSXGA+ (dunno whether i'll regret that)
Vista Home Premium
160 SATA HDD
2Gb Ram
Intel Wireless-N
Alphine White (glossy ... blink blink)
any top 10 software and 10 utilities that i should consider????

for i know below are some of my favorite apps
1. Nod32
2. Internet Download Manager
3. Winrar
4. CCleaner
5. Perfect Disk
6. Live Messenger
7. Adobe Reader
8. Office 2007
9. Nero
10. Limewire

any suggestions?? much appreciated ... thanks

My 1520 operation :

Previously I've stated in page 15 that my LCD is facing bleeding problem, the coating of media button paint is peeled off, DVD drive noisy as well as Hard Disk having clicking sound all the time.

So, DELL ppl have came with all replacement parts for 1520 and ask me want to change what ?? Huh, it seems that they can almost change the whole laptop part without further checking of my problem. They ask, "which part got problem, we'll replace it at once!" Wah, then I complained the problem above and they replaced them immediately. They've replaced the whole palmrest, Hard Disk Drive(SEAGATE to HITACHI) and DVD Drive(NEC to LG). After they changed those parts, they started to take out the LCD which is bleeding. When they want to replace another one, they found that the replacement LCD is already cracked So they said they will replace another 1 the day after that. They left me with a LCD cable before left.

Since then, I've heard nothing from them anymore. It's not until 2 weeks later then they only call me because they had left the cable on my hands (I didn't complain further cause the current LCD is still working perfectly at that time). They said that they have to come again to get back the cable, if not their salary will be suspended! It is very obvious that they have forgotten to replace my LCD, they wouldn't be coming if ot because of the cable.  Only then they have come and replace my bleeding AUO LCD with another bleeding AUO LCD (AUO= AU Optronics). I think it is a common issue with those truelife LCD, I'm ok with it anyway.

For the Hard Disk, it still produce clicking sound every 1 to 2 minutes in quiet environment. Changed liao but still persists.

Until now the laptop works perfectly without any problem. The overall DELL service is ok lar, I've never tried before so this is the first time experience with DELL service.
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Any 1520 user here use notebook cooler? what are your laptop temperature when idle and play games (mine is around 55 when idle and 68-73 when playing games) ?

Does this notebook need a cooler at all because it is way cooler compared with other model especially ACER.
I've tried VIGO NINJA before but the temperture is the same.
Anyone can tell your experience?