Dell Vostro 1500

Bonjour · 26 Feb 2008 at 17:37

Yeah, it will come up as 'Generic PnP Monitor'.

You need to go into the device manager, select 'Monitors' and double click the 'Generic PnP Monitor'. Then click the 'details' tab and select 'Hardware ID's from the dropdown menu. This'll give you the model number of your screen.

Bradmax57 · 26 Feb 2008 at 17:39

Bonjour said:
Yeah, it will come up as 'Generic PnP Monitor'.

You need to go into the device manager, select 'Monitors' and double click the 'Generic PnP Monitor'. Then click the 'details' tab and select 'Hardware ID's from the dropdown menu. This'll give you the model number of your screen.

Cheers, ive got a AUO2077 is that the bad ones?

GeForce · 26 Feb 2008 at 18:54

I've got an AUO one, and it's perfect! I love it

The AUO ones seem to be a bit hit and miss really, I just got lucky.

Most people seem to decide whether they like their screen the first time they see it. Personally, I just went "wow!".

Jon

Bradmax57 · 26 Feb 2008 at 20:12

i seem to be having all sorts of problems with mine, not sure if its because i installed 4gb of 6400 ram (worked perfectly in lenovo) and also my 7200rpm hitatchi 200gb (also worked perfectly in lenovo) but i re installed vista, all appeared fine so proceeded to windows updates (about 150mb of them) rebooted, and no go kept bsod but i didnt get long enough to see what it was anyway ive reinstalled again ill try with updates again although someone did tell me bother with 4gb and vista in general although i never had any with my desktop?

Bonjour · 26 Feb 2008 at 20:47

Silly question, but are you sure you installed all of the system drivers? All of the Intel drivers and mem management software etc?

fish99 · 26 Feb 2008 at 21:43

peetee said:
vostro1500 with 8600gt runs cod4 portal too, not with bells and whistles but both are perfectly playable

Bonjour said:
The gaming performance has been better than expected tbh.

Older games (such as WoW and CoD2) I've been able to run at 1680x1050 and look superb. I have an XB360 and PS3 so haven't tried more recent games as of yet.

Thanks

Sounds enough for what I want.

Bradmax57 · 27 Feb 2008 at 09:48

Bonjour said:
Silly question, but are you sure you installed all of the system drivers? All of the Intel drivers and mem management software etc?

i installed the intel chipset drivers etc?

Bonjour · 27 Feb 2008 at 09:52

What about the memory management and SATA drivers?

Bradmax57 · 27 Feb 2008 at 09:53

also, ive got the one with built in webcam am i right in thinking there is no built in mic?

Bradmax57 · 27 Feb 2008 at 09:57

Bonjour said:
What about the memory management and SATA drivers?

erm i cant find any drivers on dells website or the disk for memory management??? ive not installed the intel matrix storage drivers as yet

Bonjour · 27 Feb 2008 at 09:59

Bradmax57 said:
erm i cant find any drivers on dells website or the disk for memory management??? ive not installed the intel matrix storage drivers as yet

Yeah, it's the matrix storage drivers. There's one on the Intel website which also includes some sort of memory management.

Install that.

tom_e · 27 Feb 2008 at 10:00

Bradmax57 said:
also, ive got the one with built in webcam am i right in thinking there is no built in mic?

There is at least one, but i vaguley remember hearing they are a pair

Bradmax57 · 27 Feb 2008 at 10:17

blitz2163 said:
There is at least one, but i vaguley remember hearing they are a pair

hmm msn doesnt see any :S

Bradmax57 · 27 Feb 2008 at 10:18

Bonjour said:
Yeah, it's the matrix storage drivers. There's one on the Intel website which also includes some sort of memory management.

Install that.

downloaded the ones from dell, theres so setup file inc? got a link to the intel ones?

*edit* "scratch that found it"

tom_e · 27 Feb 2008 at 11:11

Bradmax57 said:
hmm msn doesnt see any :S

According to this post http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=9941158&highlight=mic#post9941158 they are there somewhere, have you checked device manager to see if they are there but not installed properly?

Bradmax57 · 27 Feb 2008 at 13:08

hmmm definately some stange issues with mine

im getting bsod and reboots after something windows update is installing ive no idea what but its happend twice now

I think its KB929777 as thats the one its reporting as failed, for machines with more than 3gb

Bonjour · 27 Feb 2008 at 14:52

Bradmax57 said:
downloaded the ones from dell, theres so setup file inc? got a link to the intel ones?

*edit* "scratch that found it"

All Vostro 1500 Drivers, 32 & 64bit

How much memory have you got, and have you upgraded any components yourself?

fred_easey · 27 Feb 2008 at 14:56

Bradmax57 said:
i seem to be having all sorts of problems with mine, not sure if its because i installed 4gb of 6400 ram (worked perfectly in lenovo) and also my 7200rpm hitatchi 200gb (also worked perfectly in lenovo) but i re installed vista, all appeared fine so proceeded to windows updates (about 150mb of them) rebooted, and no go kept bsod

Yeah I've had exactly the same problem with mine after upgrading to 4GB OCZ PC5300.

The error message in the log says something about the sleep function going wrong.

I assumed it was a vista issue that would be sorted by the next service pack. Is that not the case then?

Bradmax57 · 29 Feb 2008 at 09:42

Bonjour said:
All Vostro 1500 Drivers, 32 & 64bit

How much memory have you got, and have you upgraded any components yourself?

4gb and yes I did, its a vista update that was causing the problems now sorted

Bradmax57 · 29 Feb 2008 at 09:43

fred_easey said:
Yeah I've had exactly the same problem with mine after upgrading to 4GB OCZ PC5300.

The error message in the log says something about the sleep function going wrong.

I assumed it was a vista issue that would be sorted by the next service pack. Is that not the case then?

it was KB929777 causing the problems for me, in the end i hid the update