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Dell Dimension 4600: Upgrading Hard Drive on a DELL

Thu, 05 Jul 2018 08:07:27 -0700

I'm helping a friend of mine replace her harddrive for a Dell she has at her business, her old drive crashed. I have succesfully replaced the drive, formatted, and installed Windows XP on the Dell. But now all the images on the display are HUGE, and im pretty sure this is because I have to re-install the drivers for her DELL. She cannot find her Install Disks and we cannot access the internet with her machine. So my question is: Can I download the necessary drivers with my Mac to a thumb drive and then install on her machine?

NOTE: I have used the thumb drive for Windows and Mac before.

⟐ Commented July 05, 2018 at 8:07 MST

Dell Dimension 4600: Why wont anything come on monitor screen?

Sat, 29 Jan 2022 09:11:22 -0700

Both the tower and monitor have power to them. Vable connected between them properly, yet the monitor does not show anything

⟐ Answer accepted January 29, 2022 at 9:11 MST

Dell Dimension 4600: System freezes don't know cause, occasionally won't boot into windows

Tue, 13 Jan 2015 06:58:00 -0700

Dell Dimension 4600 seems to have a problem that I am unable to identify. The system occasionally fails to boot into windows leaving me with just a blinking cursor in the top left corner of the screen. Other time the system will boot and run for an unpredictable period of time, usually not for more than a few hours and will freeze up, not ever recovering. When it does this the only thing that works for any purpose is to press the power button and hold until a force shutdown occurs. This returns to the initial issue of the system possibly failing to boot windows.

This system has been upgraded slightly, currently running 3GB of RAM and a GeForce 6200 graphics card. Everything else is still original.

I am starting to think that one of the components in the system is starting to die. That being said I don't know where to start to identify which component that it may be. I would like to be able to continue using this system rather than have to get a new computer because a new computer isn't in my budget right now and from what I can find replacement parts for this one are fairly in-expensive. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Cole

⟐ Answer deleted January 13, 2015 at 6:58 MST

Dell Dimension 4600: Hard Drive Upgrade Problems

Tue, 05 Aug 2014 21:11:55 -0700

ok, here goes. A friend of mine purchased an upgrade harddrive for her Dell. The problem is dell sent here a 250gb hard drive which is SATA interface. we bought an SATA to IDE adapter but cant format or partition the drive. Is the drive too large? Do I have to set up different jumpers? I booted from the installation CD of Windows XP but while its installing drivers and such the installation halts and we get an error.

⟐ Commented August 05, 2014 at 21:11 MST

Dell Dimension 4600: power shutdown (110V plugged to 220V).

Sun, 21 Jul 2019 08:53:32 -0700

what will i do if i accidently pluggged a supposed 110V only to a 220V...the CPU has no power...

⟐ Commented July 21, 2019 at 8:53 MST

Dell Dimension 4600: Windows 10 Pro password trouble

Mon, 26 Sep 2022 00:32:14 -0700

I have brand new 12 Windows 10 Pro 20H2 PCs in my office and i am responsible for them. I set them all up identically however i have 4 that are an issue for me.

These PCs are all networked together, they all have the same username and have administrator rights. The original PCs came with 'admin' as their main user account. These have all been removed. I have set them all to never shutdown, never sleep and I set the sign on option so that they don't have a password. ( The PCs need to be on 24/7).

However 4 of the PCs (every 4 weeks) gets a pop up message;

"your password has expired & must be changed"

I click 'ok'

Then the pop up come up to enter a password in the 'new password' box

i hit return

Then a popup appears "your password has been changed".

So does anyone know how to get rid of this?

Regards

⟐ Commented September 26, 2022 at 0:32 MST

Dell Dimension 4600: How to Remove Hard Drive in Dell Inspiron 4600 (can't be wiped)

Sat, 03 Aug 2019 06:54:41 -0700

I need to remove the hard drive from my old Dell Inspiron 4600 but can’t wipe it as I now have now way to hook it up. I don’t want to donate it with all the info that’s in my hard drive. Please help! (I’m no techie, but I can follow instructions and use tools)

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

⟐ Commented August 03, 2019 at 6:54 MST