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06-18-2005, 06:26 AM
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Western Digital 320GB SATA
Western Digital 320GB SATA 8MB Cache 3200jd
I was just about to purchase this bargain at Monarch for 140 bucks when I realized I didn't know if it would be compatible with my son's Dell 4500. I looked around the web but by the time I find it the sale will be over and I'll be shovelling snow. I did a search in this forum but I didn't catch anything. Any ideas? Thanks Mike 
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Women are better people, Men are better men Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600) Dell E521 1.90 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core PHILIPS DVD-ROM TEAC USB HS-CF Card Device WDC WD800JD-75MSA3 [Hard drive] (80.00 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WMAM9KL69938, rev 10.01E04, SMART Status: Healthy 2048 Megabytes NVIDIA nForce 430/410 Serial ATA Cntl(2x) NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE[Display adapter]Soyo 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor 24D6 Processor Intel Pentium III, 501 MHz System Board ICO Peripherals, Inc. Intel 440ZX BIOS ASl, Inc. 4.51 PG 06/03/99 Chipset Intel 82443BX Memory 512 MB Memory Type 256+256;|DIMM|SDRAM|;T5 Video board S3 Graphics Inc. Savage4 Video mode 800x600, 32 bits/pixel XP 5.1.2600 |
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06-18-2005, 06:39 AM
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Dell™ Dimension™ 4500 Available devices ATA-100 Ultra DMA hard drive, CD drive, Zip drive, DVD drive, DVD+RW drive, and CD-RW drive I'm guessing the above means no sata drive. |
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06-18-2005, 10:35 AM
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How old is this DELL?
From your second post it does look like that DELL doesn't support SATA hard drives. And the DELL might not be able to support hard drives of that size too. What OS is it running?  Cricket
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One option would be to install an sata controller card on an available PCI slot. But im not sure if that would work with an older dell.
HTH, CN
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He has XP Home. I think it is about 3 years old. I bought it on Ebay a month or two before the 4600 model were out. I read the Guide to SATA post and it made the install sound doable. Last edited by Rapier; 06-18-2005 at 11:39 AM. |
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