Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
If the memory dump happens again, you might worry and chat with dell. Those should be uncommon on new computers. It's never happened for me. There could be something wrong.
A 60 GB hard drive actually has about 55GB of space, because of the difference of counting on a scale of 1024 vs 1000. The other missing 6 gigs is probably a recovery partition. This is very common with many brands, unfortunately (depending on how you look at it.)
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Hmm, but what about watching movies - is this annoying when looking from the angle?
And another thing - there is Expresscard instead of PCMCIA, nad soundcard integrated is only ac'97 - so there is no way to plug in SB audigy 2 zs notebook (pcmcia)
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My screen has the same exact texture and dark spots you're describing -
Honestly doesn't really bother me. Great screen, otherwise
By the way, what procedure did you follow to get Dell to try sending a replacement? My E1505 is making a high-pitched "chirpy" sound all the time, and I don't know if that's standard, so I might try the same approach as you to Dell support
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When I called Dell, I told them I had just opened the box yesterday and immediately after booting into windows noticed 3 problems.
Problems:
1.) Diagonal discolored, textured lines across the entire screen.
2.) Dim spots in the lower left and lower right corners of the screen.
3.) Small dent on the case just to the left of the keyboard.
All of these were 3 things I felt were problems with the product I received. They gave me 2 options, an exchange or a refund, but were quick to suggest that the exchange would be a better deal for me. They reasoned that with a replacement, they would cover shipping charges, but with a return, I would have to pay to have the product shipped back to their facilities.
Due to their 21 day return policy, I chose to return the product and will likely be getting a Macbook (thanks to the Boot Camp program which works amazingly well and is easy to set up by the way. My friend has a macbook pro and showed it off to me today). I really did not want to run the risk of going through multiple exchanges and a possibility of not being permitted to return my purchase.
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I reinstalled windows, assuming that Dell had put all the right drivers on the factory disc. I was dead wrong. It had only about half the drivers. The video drivers it came with were not even close to being right- it had NO radeon x1400 drivers AT ALL. The way Dell includes its drivers is annoying too, you can't just let windows install it- you have to actually click on each individual driver to install it. It is also not always clear which driver should be installed...
I went to Dell's website, downloaded all the drivers, reinstalled windows (again), then reinstalled the drivers manually. Things are "stable" at the moment.
I had to mess with the wireless settings for a very long time as this notebook apparently interferes with my wife's notebok's wireless card. It took me a while to figure out that this was the case (I could connect one computer or the other to the router, but when I tried to connect both, neither would connect). I've had many computers in the past connect to this router with NO problem at all. It was the Dell that caused this problem.
I've made three desktop computers from scratch and (pretty much) did a notebook from scratch. I've never had to do this much to get something working right. I THINK I have it down now though. We'll see what happens when I start loading more software on it (I already had a firewall program blue screen it several times). I finally got it to a point where I didn't have all the annoying Dell software on it though- which I am happy about.
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Dell Inspiron e1505 Review (pics, specs) Discussion
Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by fsacj, Mar 17, 2006.
