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DELL XPS M1730 Configuring to separate hard drives & Upgrading NVIDIA 8700GT 250mb to 9800m GTX SLI 2GB Graphics Card
Hello everyone,
I just got an Dell XPS M1730 a couple of days ago and I would like to upgrade its present specs to higher specs to be able to play more modern PC Games with high specs required.
I got two questions I need some to assist me with:
1. I have two separate hard drives 250GB & 200GB which appears as one hard drive in windows as 320GB, I do know it has todo with RAID configuration but am new to this, how do I make them a separate hard? e.g use 250GB for my OS main hard drive and 200GB as my backup.
2.I just discovered my PC using Nvidia 8700GT and would like to upgrade it to 9800m, do I just remove the 8700gt and slot in the 9800 gtx? Are there any configuration settings needed to be done after?
Finally my processor is 2.10GHZ I cant find any option to overclock my speed above 2.10GHZ is there away I can do this?
Thanks.
ejn63
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November 19th, 2013 15:00
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/disk-drives/f/3534/t/18941924.aspx
When you replace the drive, the new one will be detected automatically.
Once you've configured the RAID BIOS, you'll then need to proceed with a manual install (or a recovery if you have a set of recovery discs).
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November 19th, 2013 15:00
Thanks for the quick reply but can you kindly give a quick step or tutorial on how to break my drives into two separate drives so I have the choice to boot off from each individually and secondly I want to increase my hard drive space with a 500GB hard drive, do I unplug the 200GB and replace it with 500GB hard drive or do I need to make changes in the BIOS?
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November 19th, 2013 15:00
1. You will need to go in and break the RAID array (CTRL-i is the usual trip key). You will then need to reload everything so be sure you have your installation DVDs.
2. You can upgrade the video card -- but it will not be an inexpensive upgrade. They're still a couple of hundred dollars, used (they're not available new).
3. The systems shipped with up to a T9500 CPU (now about $100) and an X9000 CPU (still in the $200-300+ range, used).
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November 19th, 2013 16:00
Okay
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November 19th, 2013 16:00
So replacing one of my hard drives with 500GB means I need to format and install win 7 fresh install again? :emotion-3:
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November 19th, 2013 16:00
Breaking the RAID array means you'll lose everything on both drives - so even if you don't replace a drive, you must reload everything.