New Vostro Lineup (3350, 3450..)

Guys - i am interested in purchasing Vostro 3450 (without Graphic Card) --- but i need to confirm the following:


1) Does A11 BIOS fixes the Heat Sink FAN High RPM issue ?
2) With A11 Bios - does FAN run intermittently in IDLE state or not ?
3) If A11 bios doesn't help --- Can we control the Fan Speed using software such as SpeedFan ?

A11 Bios Link Below
Drivers and Downloads | Dell [United States]

 

^^^ Guys Please Confirm ----

 

On my 3550, the touchpad regularly stops responding for a second or two as though it's stuck or doesn't know I'm trying to move it. I've read a thread about this on the dell site and though there were lots of different solutions posted, the most common one that seems to be successful is uninstalling the alps touchpad driver and letting the default windows driver install itself, with no need to use the alps. I'm going to try that, but curious if others have had this issue and what their solution is? Many also said this only happens when connected to the power supply, but I haven't tested this on mine yet.

 

Guys,

I have an incident on Dell V3350, My recovery partition is missing while I tried to repair/recovery to factory default setting.

Is there a way to restore/repair recovery partition, currently I have backup factory default image in 2 DVDs created using Dell Backup management.

And, can I know where's exactly recovery partition in hard disk, which sector cylinder and size and etc.

Thank beforehand

 

lol

This has to be like the second time I've checked this thread in the 12+ months since i got my 3350.

Sorry I can't help with your issue, my 3350 has Synaptics instead of Alps.

 

Well, I uninstalled alps and used the default windows drivers, but they made the mouse pointer more erratic than an autistic frog on crack cocaine, so I installed alps again.

 

So it means no possible to work on full speed at all?

 

I just picked up a Vostro 3450 with i7 and AMD 7650 graphics and all I can say is that I am impressed with the machine's performance. Being the techie that i am though, I have a few upgrades planned

1. 8GB
2. BD-Rom burner
3. 750GB 7200 rpm drive
4. 900p panel (offered by Dell outside of the USA on the same machine)

Total for above delivered was $275 plus the $750 i paid for the machine = total cost of $1025 for a totally rocking machine. Glad I waited for this one in the outlet, that's for sure.

Someone asked about A11 BIOS update fixing the fan and I can say that yes, it does.

to the guy above me concerend about Sata 3.0Gbps vs 6, don't get too worried as there is no mechanical or SSD drive that can come close to saturating that bus as of yet (sustained data throughput is roughy 3,076MB sec)

Is your machine still under warranty? you can call Dell if it is and they will send you the disks. There may or may not be a fee involved. When I got my Vostro 3450, I only got the OS DVD