Headline: If you installed the latest driver for an nVidia Quadro FX 1800M, Version 8.17.12.5922, A08, you might experience slowness when bringing up or restoring windows. Go to the Dell site and get the pervious version, install it, reboot, and performance should be restored. Details I have a Dell Precision M4500 notebook running Windows 7 [...]
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Window Restore Slow After nVidia Driver Upgrade
Wednesday, Nov 24th, 2010 by karlz | 0 Comments
Filed under: Technology | Tags: Dell, nVidia, Windows 7
Filed under: Technology | Tags: Dell, nVidia, Windows 7
Dell Precision M45oo Review
Sunday, Nov 21st, 2010 by karlz | 0 Comments
Filed under: Technology | Tags: Dell, Hardware, OCZ, SSD, Windows 7
Filed under: Technology | Tags: Dell, Hardware, OCZ, SSD, Windows 7
Headline: I’m very happy! Details My wife gave her computer to a friend… Her needs were different from the capabilities of that computer. It was a nice computer – a tablet PC with 250 GB hard drive, but no battery life and fairly weak graphics and CPU performance. So she convinced me that I needed [...]
My Desktop Gadgets Disappear
Headline: It seems that when the Dell Enhanced Power & Performance is used and you change to Ultra Performance (Max Fan Levels) it will shut down your desktop Gadgets. Switch back to something like “Cool (Reduced Temp Levels)” and they return! Enhanced Power & Performance On my Dell Precision M4500 I change environments quite a [...]
…and the Agony of the Cheap
The Joy of Excellence, and the Agony of the Cheap Yes, this is a play on the old ABC Wide World of Sports slogan, “The thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat.” I probably should have used “The thrill of quality, and the agony of the cheap.” but my site isn’t called “ThrillOfQuality”. The [...]
My Turbo Boost Is Not Working…
Friday, Oct 29th, 2010 by karlz | 2 Comments
Filed under: Technology | Tags: Dell, Hardware, i7, Intel, Turbo Boost
Filed under: Technology | Tags: Dell, Hardware, i7, Intel, Turbo Boost
Headline: If you are using PassMark PerformanceTest to test your i7 processor with Turbo Boost, make sure you have the latest version of their software. A bug in versions prior to build 1016 would cause Turbo Boost to stop working once you launched PerformanceTest (at least on a 64-bit machine). Strange but true story… I [...]
My SSD Rocks
Saturday, Mar 13th, 2010 by karlz | 2 Comments
Filed under: Technology | Tags: Dell, Hardware, Intel, SSD
Filed under: Technology | Tags: Dell, Hardware, Intel, SSD
Technorati Tags: Intel,SSD,Dell,Hardware Headline: My new Intel 160 GB X25M SSD (Solid State Drive) is really fast! 200+ MB/sec read and 90+ MB/sec write! Background I sort of smiled when I opened up my new drive this week to see a little sticker that said, “My SSD Rocks!”. You see, I had a SSD before… [...]
A Tale of Two Mice
Technorati Tags: Dell,C#,.NET User Story: As a Windows 7 user of an IntelliPoint mouse I want to switch from left-handed to right-handed (and vice-versa) with a single double click. The Old Way I have a really nice mouse, but it uses IntelliPoint… ok, that’s fine. But at home I use the mouse left handed while [...]
One Computer – A Very Strange Day
Technorati Tags: Dell I always felt I was "settling" for a lesser computer when using a notebook. Now the Dell Precision M4400 is literally the only computer I use – and I’m pretty demanding on a computer. The only thing that I think would have people shy away is the price. But in retrospect, I [...]
Dell ControlPoint Fix
Technorati Tags: Dell Headline: After installing the latest version of .NET 4.0 I kept getting an error with SecurityDeviceInfoSetRegistryString.exe not being able to access the registry. There is a fix on the Dell site. After I downloaded an update to the ControlPoint System Manager dated 4 Aug 2009, version 1.3.00000, A12. After I installed that [...]