I've had my 16 for about 3 weeks. I really have no complaints with it. It does run warm but frankly any laptop I've ever had with any graphic horsepower at all ran hot. I do have 2 questions though.
1.) Win 7 virtual XP mode reports that my CPU does not have virtualization mode on. Okay fine, I go into bios and turn it on and restart. Launch the XP mode again and again it reports my CPU is not on. Okay so I'm an idiot and didn't save settings but when I go back into BIOS it's still on.... Any ideas?
2.) Has anyone pulled the stock cooling off and replaced the pads with real TIM? I'm hesitant to yank them off only to find some huge gap that needed the pads I just destroyed by removing them.
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This should resolve your virtualization issues: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprovirt/thread/2a33c034-f719-45eb-b106-c4de5cd8fdbf
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I'll give that a shot. Thanks.
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How has the Win 7 virtual XP mode worked for you? I am in desperate need of using that mode as I have a very important program that will not run in Vista and must have XP.
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Did you try right clicking on the .exe, going to properties, then compatibility, then clicking on run in compatibility mode, and selecting the OS the program was designed for? That has worked for me with just about every program except Quickbooks 2006.
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I have tried that. The program in question is a credit card charging program "PC Charge". It will load but I can not import the database into it, it just won't work. The program runs fine in WinXP.
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Obviously I haven't tried it on the dell but on my e8400 based desktop it works like a champ. Was even able to flash a 360 using the virtual xp install.
Two Studio 16 questions/issues
Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by bigddybn, Aug 17, 2009.