Dell £339 Laptop 15.4" widescreen, wireless, DVDRW (NOW GONE - that's all folks!)

Kilty_2

Gonna try and blag the CDs from Dell, my Inspiron doesnt have the option for burning an OS CD

Ally

Oh no ... my one has just picked up details of someone elses wireless thingy ... not going to connect to it ... can't anyway but it has her name on it ....! must remember when I set our one up not to put my full name on it!!

talkshop

Ally wrote:

Oh no ... my one has just picked up details of someone elses wireless thingy ... not going to connect to it ... can't anyway but it has her name on it ....! must remember when I set our one up not to put my full name on it!!

It will of course receive a signal from anyone elses wireless network, but if their network is encrypted, then it shows with a padlock, and you will not be able to connect anyway.

Northtim

Received ok here!

Looks good - just got it hooked up to home wireless network and now trying to get all that crap removed dell have stuck on it!

Ally

it's got a padlock, but i do not like they idea of being able to see her full name (as she has written it, and what she calls her PC LOL) ... if I can see her's .... the she and others can see mine!

Anyway, am typing from my Lappy now and trying to get used to the KB LOL!! hmmm, gonna have to practise A LOT!!

Kilty_2

Just bought one of those Antler bags from PC World - £24.99.

Lovely piece of kit, only complaint I have about it is that I can fit the charging brick in but not the mains plug that comes with it.

Still would reccomend it to any of you that have bought the Inspiron.

Northtim

All up and running here with the extra memory fitted seems very good.

One panic when kept getting asked for a cd for sonic update. If you get that go to the troubleshooting part of dell support website and there is a little hotfix to download.

Only thing is, as Browntoa said on another thread, no longer seems to be an option to burn a restore disk? No good at reading manuals so if someone else has found how to do this please let me know!

Guess I better hand this over to the wife now as it is meant to be hers!

Browntoa

that poxy message !!

did'nt know there was a fix on the site...

I did a restore on mine to get it working

Searcher

Northtim wrote:

All up and running here with the extra memory fitted seems very good.

One panic when kept getting asked for a cd for sonic update. If you get that go to the troubleshooting part of dell support website and there is a little hotfix to download.

Only thing is, as Browntoa said on another thread, no longer seems to be an option to burn a restore disk? No good at reading manuals so if someone else has found how to do this please let me know!

Guess I better hand this over to the wife now as it is meant to be hers!

You can burn the restore disk directly from the image which you can find at C:\dell\MEDIAEXE\Media.iso
I'm not sure if the sonic software will burn images or not as I uninstalled it pretty much straight away and installed Nero, but if you do a Google search there are plenty of free utilities that will let you burn/ extract an iso image
HTH

Browntoa

not on this new batch of 1300's

just looked