Talk:Dell Inspiron

This article was nominated for deletion on October 13, 2005. The result of the discussion was keep. An archived record of this discussion can be found here.

Rob e rt 00:36, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This page needs a major update. 6000 is out and e1505's are in.

System Identifier

Dell System Identifier information

Every Dell system includes an identifier string located in the Registry file. This string maintains compatibility with various software utilities and the Dell UNIX operating system.

Information from Merge

The articles Inspiron 9300 and Inspiron 6000 were merged into this one by myself. Consequently, some of the information is unaccounted for in the page's history. Please see [1] and [2] for information on the contributors to those articles. Rob Church ^{Talk | FAHD} 02:00, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

"Inspiration" [sic]

Regarding the sentence "Due to some people's difficulties pronouncing the name, the brand is often referred to as 'inspiration'"...is there a source on that? I've never heard this computer called an "Inspiration" except by a few fools who can't spell "Inspiron." Josh Kagan

It was in the source for the merge I did. I've no problems if you want to remove it. Rob Church ^{Talk | FAHD} 21:05, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

sounds like BS to me, have had 2 Inspirons and never heard of that pronunciation

I just did a goog;le search on "Dell Inspiration" and got 16,700 results, and i looked through them, most of them referred to the Dell Inspiron( 'Dell Inspiration' ) laptop.

I work in dell technical support and that is a common pronunciation of inspiron. It is not where the name came from though

~Robert Barbieri (binarygrind.com)

revert

195.93.21.99 added a lot of information to the article, but I reverted the article back to before his edits. My reasons are:

I felt that most of the new information was simply Inspiron specs woven into sentences, and did not include any information which distinguishes the Inspiron from other laptops or computers.

Some of the information describes the XPS system exclusively, and not the Inspiron. For example:

"Visually the machine has a metalic plastic cover and inside with contrasting black borders. The machine has customizable 'perimeter lighting' in the XPS logos on the lid..." (italics by me)

Some of the information is incorrect. For example: "Dell Inspiron 6000...comes equipped with two front speakers and a ~1 inch subwoofer on the bottom." I am sitting in front of an Inspiron 6000 and I can tell you there is no subwoofer on this laptop.

Last but not least, there are many grammatical errors in the new information that I do not care to fix.

If anyone disagrees then please discuss. 09:14, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

The 6000 does have a subwoofer option. It is actually integrated with the 9 cell battery. ~Robert Barbieri

Cooling information

I felt that adding the cooling issue to this article was necessary as I used to own a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop which overheated and burned up the video card. I sold the laptop on eBay for $300.00, about half of it's original value. I was searching Google for a few hours and found that site (which I've added at the end of my paragraph on that issue) to help support my statement. Anyone is welcome to provide more information on this topic and will be appreciated very much.

Thank you,

- Mike. 04:15, 6 March 2006 (UTC).

From my experience of this problem, the problem is caused by the positioning of the fans, they easily become clogged with dust. Removal of this dust and possibly the replacement of thermal grease on the processor, will greatly improve cooling. Possibly even raising the back feet of the computer can improve air flow. My CPU was measured at being at almost 80 degrees Centrigrade, it now normally levels at 50. Soon I shall reapply the thermal grease and so I will see the effect of that. -- Tompsci 09:10, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

References to LindowsOS

Removed the references to Lindows - obviously there will be problems when attempting to load a non-Windows OS on here. Dell only ships with Windows, anything else is unsupported by the manufacturer and is installed at the user's own risk. Scott 110 05:52, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Additions and Grammar fixes

Went through and fixed some of the grammar mistakes as well as created several new sections to correspond with the new models Dell has released this year.

Is this right?

While most of the standard features are identical, there are some interesting variations between the two, such as the inclusion of Windows Media Center edition on the E1505, while the 6400 comes stock with XP Home.

I got a Dell Inspiron 6400 with Windows Media center.

Overheating

Um, so the section about the overheating seems to rely on "at least one inspiron owner" for most of its information. I'm just afraid this might be just one user who had this experience and is explaining it here. Either way, it needs to be rewritten I think, unless we find an adequate source that talks about there being at least one owner who did this. If it's just a user with this experience, it'd probably constitute original research, not that it's bad information, but it'd be good to at least get some sources for this.--Nibblesnbits 15:14, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was the one that added the issue to the article in March 2006 (see above in the Dell Inspiron talk) as I had a Dell Inspiron 1150 that overheated and burned up the video card. I added information from what I read online about the overheating issue and even provided an in-text citation link to the page that shows a huge list of other consumers who had their systems overheat on them (also note that consumers who have refurbished notebooks appear that they don't have this problem). I've been watching this article ever since I made my contribution to it and found that numerous members of Wikipedia made additions and changes to the section I made, and even adding other notebook model numbers that are also affected. One member even posted a way to fix the problem for those affected notebooks. So that is not correct, there are numerous people who are supporting that section of the article here.

Thanks,

- Mike. 01:05, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Inspiron 8200 RAM

I noticed in the article states that "some people have said that they were able to put 2GB of RAM into the system with no problem".

I just bought a 1 GB DDR chip and installed it, but the BIOS just displays an error message upon start-up and reduces the RAM recognized to 512 MB. On the Specification section of the manual (P. 112) it states that the only module capacities are 128, 256 and 512 MB.

If someone could please tell me how they reached RAM capacity above 1 GB, I would be outmost delighted.

Edit: Well, it appears that the BIOS seems to have a mind of its own: Sometimes it acts as described above, and at other times it accepts the full chip capacity, but then I'm rewarded with a plethora of blue screens. Strangely, many of my MS Office programs don't work any more either...

Theharpguy 18:21, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest you to upgrade the BIOS revision on your Inspiron to the latest. I had a similar situation before with another computer (an OptiPlex desktop) on upgrading the CPU. It didn't work with the new CPU until I upgraded the BIOS, which supported the new chip I had. I'm assuming that it might be the same with this also, where the new chip might be included with the newest BIOS revision. Good luck. --Izcool 04:57, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

1300

I have an Inspiron 1300 but it isn't mentioned as existing. I will try to find to information to add myself but it is likely that I will run into similar problems as when I tried to find a replacement battery. I wonder why there is little information about this particular model. Kc4 20:28, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

8600

I have an Inspiron 8600 but it isn't mentioned very much either. I don't really know how to use Wikipedia, so I probably won't add any information myself but if someone else wants to contact me, feel free. D03boy 04:39, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]