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Archive for the ‘DELL-9200’ Category

Dell 9200 (DXP061) CMOS battery update

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/04/04

If the CMOS battery of a Dell 9200 (DXP061) the BIOS looses all the settings and resets the timestamp to 2007-11-22 midnight.

Date timestamp is likely because that’s the date stamp of BIOS version 2.5.3 which is still the latest for both the Dimension 9200 and XPS 410 (which are identical: XPS was for the consumer market, Dimension for the business market, only a few options were different):

The manual at [Wayback] dimension-9200_owner’s manual_en-us.pdf mentions how to change the battery, but forgets to mention it is a CR2032.

Luckily [Wayback/Archive.is] How to Replace a CMOS (coin-cell) Battery on Your Dell Desktop | Dell US had that information.

–jeroen

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MemTest86 for MBR booting systems: use the really old version 4.3

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/02

Sometimes you come across old systems that do not support UEFI booting, so for memory testing you need tools that either are embedded on something like a Linux image that os in MBR, or the plain ISO download of older versions.

I opted for the latest “older” version 4.3 of MemTest86 [Wayback]:

As MemTest86 V9 supports only the newer UEFI platform, older PCs without UEFI support would be unable to boot MemTest86. In order to run MemTest86, PCs with legacy BIOS platform must use the older V4 release of MemTest86. The download links for the V4 downloads are still provided for those that prefer to work with the V4 bootable images.

V4 Windows Downloads: Download
Image for creating bootable CD [Wayback] Download
Image for creating bootable USB Drive [Wayback] Download
Image for creating bootable Floppy Drive [Wayback] Download
V4 Linux/Mac Downloads: Download
Image for creating bootable CD [Wayback] Download
Image for creating bootable USB Drive [Wayback] Download
Image for creating bootable Floppy Drive [Wayback] Download

–jeroen

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DELL 9200 blinking orange power button LED

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/09

I had distributed my DELL 9200 machines over some family and friends.

After 10+ years, one of them was showing the [Wayback/Archive.is] “blinking orange” power button LED. Usually this means a power supply issue and in this case [Wayback] these are tower machines compatible with a regular ATX power supply.

So the fix was a basic power supply exchange like mentioned here:

Note: if you have steady orange power button LED blinking, then you need to check the main-board capacitors as this video below shows.

–jeroen

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Dell Dimension 9200 Updated to 8GB. – General Hardware – Desktop – Dell Community

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/24

From old stock, I still had a few of these machines and gave them away maxed out at 8 GB with a Windows x64 installation and SSD.

You need 4 of these: 2GB DDR2 PC2-5300 @ 667Mhz non-ECC non-registered memory DIMM. Faster DIMMs work too. Registered DIMMs don’t work.

–jeroen

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Dell Dimension 9200/DXP061: 8GB is possible (via: Type of memory for Dimension 9200/DXP061 – Tech Support Guy Forums)

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/18

Though my [Wayback/Archive.is] Dell Dimension 9200/DXP061 machines already had 4 gigabyte of memory, I just learned they can go to 8 gigabyte of memory.

Multiple source confirm that it is possible to put 8 GB of memory in a Dell Dimension 9200/DXP061 (aka “Dell XPS 410”):

–jeroen

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