revumbra wrote:Yeah Killets, I actually bought that exact DELL PC for my boss and built it out for her. She wanted cost over performance so it was perfect. They are dirt cheap and simple as fuck to work on. There are some small issues though if you are a gamer that kinda of ruin it as a perfect system. Like the BIOS is set up for a server with all these wonky settings that I wasn't expecting on my XP install. Also DELL computers are really particular on the peripherals you use. That SONY CDRW-230 will NOT work. I know, I bought one and tried to get it to work. Worked on my home PC just fine but not the DELL. I swapped out another SONY line and it fired up perfect. Just MOBO compatibilities.
i dunno about bios issues, my shit works perfectly out of the box. didn't tweak shit. although because there are no overclocking functions, it reads the spd registers on ram modules, and clock its appropriately, so you gotta get true 4spd(i think its 4) modules for 400mhz, otherwise it goes down to 333, even if the modules are rated at 500.. hehe
as for the cd-rom, yea, my shit didn't work either.. LMAO. i just got the default 48x cd-rom. i could have RMA'd it but too fucking lazy.
