media player running really slow.

You have 21 days from date of invoice to return the PC for a full refund or exchange for a New one, I suggest you use this time wisely. After the 21 day grace period, you are stuck with possibly defective equipment.

For the Media Player 11 problem try following these steps:1.Control Panel 2. Hardware And Sound 3.Sound 4.Click on your Sound Device then properties 5. Speakers/Headphones Properties windows pops up click on the Enhancements tab 6. Check the disable all enhancements box 7.Click ok,ok. And that should solve your sound problems

cheers mate, i could kiss you :)

 

ive been scratching my head and swearing about that one, but you seemed to have sorted out my media player problem,

 

as regards to the random freezes, ive seen a thread that says if i swap the SATA cables over, this will fix it.

 

now i have another problem that i have noticed,

when i lock my computer, and come back to it a few hours later, i can hear the computer wirring, the light is on the front, the screen is off, and it doesnt seem to respond to anything apart from holding the power button down for ages, which then turns it off (without shutting down)

 

any idea's ?

hi, my graphics card is an ATI, but ill search for the latest drivers,

 

im not sure how i go about updating the bios settings, im not as advanced as some of the other guys here.

 

thanks

Warren

Go to Dell's drivers and downloads page for your particular machine. It doesn't really matter whether you select Vista or XP as your operating system (BIOS is the same for either OS). Click on the BIOS update and you will get another screen with the download AND instructions on how to install it. It's really pretty painless.

 

As for the ATI drivers, you may be OK. This seems to be more of an NVidia driver problem.

First, make sure that you have the latest BIOS version. If your display adapter is an NVidia model, get the latest driver from the NVidia site - not the Dell site. I have a 9200 and had exactly the same problems, but upgrading the BIOS and installing the NVidia driver solved the problem. Now the computer sleeps and wakes up in a matter of seconds. Let us know if this works for you.

thanks mate for the reply,

 

i would update the bios firmware, but i have a more immediate problem at the moment,

 

looky here

http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=vista&thread.id=28616

 

Many thanks so far

Warren

ok, chkdsk problem solved my disconnecting the CD and DVD drives from the sata prots, now it doenst crash.

 

now call me thick or whatever, but the service tag brings up details for an optiplex, i have a dimension 9200, and i cant seem to find support for it on the support page. only the 9100.

On the Dell support page, select Dimension (under support by product). Then, in the next xcreen, select XPS/Dimension in the product type dropdown, and then in the Product model select 410/9200. That will get you to the next page where you can selec drivers and downloads.

 

You might want to contact Dell regarding your service tag bringing up the optiplex options (or was this maybe just a one time glitch?)

the bios update requires me to log on as an administrator,

when try, it requires a password, i was not provided with one when i recieved this computer.

 

any idea's ?

Is your own account not an administrator account?

ok - many apoligies, it was me being thick,

 

i had to right click, the exe file, and select run as administrator.

 

worked a treat.

 

now there isnt much wrong with my computer (touch wood) , and i am starting to feel rather pleased with it :)

 

many thanks guys :)

 

now one more prob, in my automatic updates, it has a few that say they have failed,

 

i have tried uninstalling them, and reinstalling them, but there still appearing as failed, but there is no error message appearing when they are re-installed,

 

 

any idea's on this one ?

Thank you!! just had the same problem with media player being slow and it was driving me mad! seems to have done the trick so far.