Dell Inspiron 700M
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Dell 700M Laptop Review Introduction
The Dell 700M Laptop is a little beast boasting a powerful processor and a 12.1″ widescreen monitor. It’s best features are it’s light weight (5 lb’s) and it’s small size.
Dell 700M Laptop Design
The Dell Inspiron 700m is unlike any other Inspiron. The 700m’s top is a very pale silver and almost white in color. There are some white trimmings on this mini laptop so it has a clean look and borrows the styling of Apple’s PowerBook.
Dell 700M Laptop Features
As far as the heat/noise factor, this laptop does not heat up as bad as others do and it’s fan is very quiet. The built-in laptop speakers don’t provide much base and don’t sound good at high volumes, so expect to use earphones when listening to music on this machine.
Dell 700M Laptop Performance
Pentium M 745(1.8Ghz); Windows XP Home Edition; 512MB DDR SDRAM; 60GB Hard Drive; 4200rpm; 12.1″ WXGA, 1280×800; DVD+RW; Travel Weight: 5 lbs.; System Weight: 4 lbs.; Dell 802.11g; Intel 82855 GME, 64MB; S-Video, VGA, USB 2.0, Firewire.
What’s included in the package
Included with the Dell Inspiron 700M laptop is some start-up CD’s, user manual, laptop, remote control (for music / DVD play), A/C adapter.
Conclusion
The Dell 700M Laptop is not the ideal laptop if you’re looking for a traveling notebook, as it’s battery can die out at just over 2 hours. The best part is the SD memory card reader, perfect for viewing & transferring your digital camera pictures. The nice design, clean look and crisp & clear 12.1″ screen makes the Dell Inspiron 700M laptop a good overall buy.
February 28th, 2006 at 7:56 pm
Except that it will NOT work with SD cards over 512MB!! Dell knows this is an existing problem, yet has not updated the driver since 2004!
Way to go, Dell!
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:45 am
Well i bought mine (700m) in summer last year and from the beginning have been useing it with a 1Gig SD card i allso use in my palm pilot.. no problems..
June 16th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
I bought a Dell 700m in June 2005. It does recognize a 1 GB SD
card but not a 2 GB or a 4 GB card. Does anyone know if Dell
has addressed this problem yet?
August 19th, 2006 at 11:49 pm
is anyone else having problems with the ipod nano and their inspiron 700m? it says device not recognized when i plug the ipod in. if i disable usb 2.0 then it works ok! pain in the ass!!!
August 22nd, 2006 at 5:10 am
Yeah, just tried to put in a 2gb SD card in it today…no luck.
September 1st, 2006 at 4:21 pm
I’m also interested in hearing whether Dell fixes this. I have a 4GB SD card I’d like to use in it.
November 10th, 2006 at 4:16 pm
I’m at Dell Headquarters in Austin, Texas and I just wanted to post an update to this. I’ve been in contact with the engineer in charge of this and received word that the necessary driver update has completed testing and is in it’s final stages. While unable to guarantee an exact date, I was told that packaging is all that remains to be done with the driver and it should be available for download within the next few weeks. I’ll continue to pursue this and return to this thread with any updates I receive but more than likely my next post will be a link to the driver.
November 28th, 2006 at 6:57 pm
The USB ports on my 700m are very loose and my local computer shop says they cannot be fixed. That seems a bit strange, any comments?
December 7th, 2006 at 6:14 am
I have a 700m and just tried a 2GB SD and it will not read it either. I just got off of “Dell chat” and the support tech sent me to this site for a fix. Has anyone heard back from Neil since the 10th of last month?
December 7th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
hi people, the fix is in, download driver dated 12/4/06 and it will address the reader problem, I have confirmed this with my 2gb card. download the driver and the woes will go away.
December 7th, 2006 at 9:50 pm
Glad to know there’s a fix out there. Anybody got a link to the driver?
December 11th, 2006 at 6:21 pm
I was sent to the following link. If the link does not work go to dell support “Download and Drivers”, put in your service tag, click on “Find Downloads”, click on “Chipset”, and select “Texas Instruments PCI7420 Flash Memory/SD Reader” and download. The only problem I have is the download file crashes on install so I still have not got it running yet!
Here’s the link.
December 13th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
As ‘Mick Turl’ said, the USB ports are prone to damage. After only a few months of using a USB mouse, the USB ports became very loose. Now I never use the ports except when I absolutely must use a thumb drive for class. I have to hold the drive in place or the computer will stop reading it…. very annoying!!
December 15th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
Love it, love it! small enough to fit in my pack pack and still not weigh me down. Havent had any technical difficulties other than the fact that it has slowed down due to all my programs i’ve got stuffed in there.
December 23rd, 2006 at 10:48 am
Hi the driver installed for me. But before I go buy a higher capacity SD card, can anyone verify if a 4GB or 8GB SD will work ?
December 25th, 2006 at 8:41 pm
I have had this laptop for about three years now. I’ve been using it at law school and around my house. The only problem I’ve had (and it is a pretty big one) is that the speaker wire runs through the lid and after many openings and closings it became crimped and the speakers do not work anymore. I have read on other sites where people have had the same problem.
December 28th, 2006 at 8:39 am
tauhabib, I presume that the upgrade driver loaded. I get an installscript engine failure. Do you know what version of the script engine you have on your machine? Dell is absolutely no help in resolving this issue.
December 28th, 2006 at 12:32 pm
For those of you having trouble loading the SD card reader update, I finally got it to work using the Device Manager. If you go this route, open System in the Control Panel and then click on the Hardware tab. Open the directory “PCMCIA and Flash Memory Devices and double click the “Texas Instruments PCIxx20 Integrated FlashMedia Controller”. Click on the Driver tab and then select Update Driver. At this point in time, I had to specifically select the directory where the revised driver was located on my hard drive which for me was C:\Dell\Drivers\R139212\Windows\tiinst. Once I did that the driver was automatically updated. I then installed a 2GB SD card and it read it with no problem. I hope the above is helpful and if not please post and I will try to clarify the steps. I hope all of these posts were not too much of a bother!
January 5th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
hey, my sd card reader doesnt work at all…it tries and fails to fomat the card everytime, and while it recognizes that it’s there, it wont read it at all. ive tried numerous cards and downloaded and redownloaded the drivers. i even trired to install the driver in the way that don described above. nothing works…anyone have any ideas?
January 11th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Totally love my 700m…havent had any issues with it other than the fact that i’ve bombarded it with tons of stuff and is now sluggish..aggghh!
January 20th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Hey all,
I have a Acer which seems to have the same problem with the memory card reader (I haven’t had any luck with the Acer customer support yet). I was wondering if someone could help me out by sending me the updated driver?
Cheers.
January 28th, 2007 at 9:50 am
Dell tech support is horrible. I had to find this site myself while on Dell tech support chat and tell tech support how to fix the problem that I was calling in about. All he could keep saying was that it wasn’t compatible. I sent him the forum from this website and he cancelled my chat session.
I would just like to say thanks for everybody looking into the 700m SD card reader problem and this should help for anybody else. Hopefully dell will put this in their trouble shooting quey so their tech support staff will have something else to say besides it’s not compatible.
February 28th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
The driver was just what the doctor ordered. It installed fine just from the setup – didn’t have to go the ‘driver update’ route. Can now read my new 2 gig card.
Thanks to all for the discussion of the problem and the link to the new driver.
March 21st, 2007 at 10:24 am
After installing Vista on my 700m, the usb doesn’t work with my external hdd (WD 320GB) nor my iPod
Anybody has any idea about this??
May 2nd, 2007 at 7:39 am
I’ve had my 700m for over 2 years now and had no problems until the USB stopped working. Apparently there is a big problem with the Dell’s USB ports. I was thinking of buying a pcmcia usb card and just use that – any other solutions??
May 10th, 2007 at 9:22 am
Perfect! This is exactly what mine needed. A quick fix to without any problems.
June 25th, 2007 at 6:11 am
My only problems are the speaker thing as someone had mentioned before, AND mt NIC is now shot after 2 years. Had to get a wireless modem sent over from my ISP and had to buy a PCM/CIA card just to use for 5 min. while I got my wireless domain set up, ugh…
December 16th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Has anyone’s screen failed? My 700m is about 2 years old. Now the screen goes black about 5 minutes after booting up and I have to switch to an external monitor.
January 15th, 2008 at 3:05 am
i’ve had my 700m for over two years. i’ve never had any problems really. nothing major. but now my usb ports are not working properly. when plugging in any device into the top port a message comes up saying the device is not recognized. sometimes the same happens in the bottom port. though usually the bottom port recognizes devices as usb 1.1. i’ve read about many people having similar issues. does anyone have some solution which has solved this usb problem? thanks.
January 15th, 2008 at 7:50 am
Mateo – I’ve got the same problem. Had mine for 3 yrs. Did get it fixed by Dell Support Tech over th ephne 2 months ago by uninstalling USB via Device Manager and then restarting, go to set up (F9) and loading factory defaults. But it has happened again and this procedure won’t work. There is much on the web about this problem – but no real asnswers. A lot of people and Dell say it’s a motherboard problem but I got it working last time withot a MB change. Some people also say its a software incompability issue – but I haven’t installed any recent software. Anyone else got any ideas? PLEASE……
January 19th, 2008 at 2:32 am
RAC, thanks for the info. I tried uninstalling the USB drivers, I set the bios to its factory defaults settings, restored system to previous configuration (system restore), downloaded USB drivers from Dell and elsewhere, and still nothing. Top USB doesn’t recognize any device, and the bottom acts as a 1.1. I will either take my laptop to get it servised (though it wont be Dell who does this because I am no longer under warranty) or I will do a clean install of windows (again) and see where that takes me. Though I really don’t like the second options, let alone the first. Without USB life is a just little more difficult =/
January 19th, 2008 at 2:34 am
RAC, thanks for the info. I tried uninstalling the USB drivers, I set the bios to its factory defaults settings, restored system to previous configuration (system restore), downloaded USB drivers from Dell and elsewhere, and still nothing. Top USB doesn’t recognize any device, and the bottom acts as a 1.1. I will either take my laptop to get it servised (though it wont be Dell who does this because I am no longer under warranty) or I will do a clean install of windows (again) and see where that takes me. Though I really don’t like the second options, let alone the first. Without USB life is a just little more difficult =/
January 24th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Downloaded the driver for the “Texas Instruments PCI7420 Flash Memory/SD Reader” and that allowed me to update the driver and solved the problem with the SD reader not working on my 700m.
August 6th, 2008 at 5:15 am
hi sorry take the issue back to the card reader but for some reason my comp wont recognize the new driver i have one from 7-4-08 a few months older the problem that im having is that i cant read my 4gb sd card im good up to 2 gb but 4gb i get the error message saying to reformat and with no luck i found another work around but the problem is that the driver poted on that site is no longer avaliable and if any one has it or knows where i can find i would be really grateful if they could let me know
thanks
mike
ohh and here is the site with the work around
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/517257.html
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:55 pm
can someone please help me? I had to reformat the 700m and I dont have a backup disk with drivers on it. I could not find all of them on dells website. In device manager I’m missing “Base System Device, Network Controller, and SM Bus Controller.” I have searched the internet for like an hour now and I cannot find them. Help please?
November 26th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
my dell 700m is crap. the speakers blew for NO reason and neither USB drives work… though they USED to. i KNOW dell knows about this… i’ve read mass reviews where others complain about the same thing. Dell just lost a customer :]
November 30th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
If you install the drivers for the PCIxx21 on your 700m, you’ll be able to read 4gb cards. I verified this on my own 700m
http://www.station-drivers.com/page/texas-ins.htm
November 30th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
thanks for the help, marcus!
December 1st, 2008 at 6:43 pm
I’ve had my dell inspiron 700m since 2005. I was wondering if anyone was experiencing my problems. My computer screen begins flashing and I have no choice but to reboot. This is causing me to loose data and files. It happens about every ten minutes or so. I’ve called Dell. They come and put a new screen on and nothing has worked thus far. Anyone have any suggestions?
December 6th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
I’ve been through my share of problems with the 700m, one speaker out because of the broken wire, usb ports don’t work anymore, but I haven’t seen a screen flashing yet.
December 14th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
I got my 700m in January of ’05, so it’ll be 4 yrs. I haven’t had too many problems in the time I’ve had it, but in recent weeks I’ve had the same USB issues you’re all describing. Outlook is pretty bleak, huh? It’s making me crazy, because I can’t transfer photos, plug in my printer, or anything! The only thing that still works is my laptop fan, and I’m beginning to wonder if that isn’t what caused the problem in the first place.
December 16th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Hi Everyone. My 700m was purchased in August 2004. I’ve upgraded RAM to 2GB, hard drive to 160GB, and OS to Vista business. I’ve used a few utitilities to keep things in order so as to prevent the kinds of problems related to overloaded slow performance. The utitlities are IOBit Defrag, IObit Advanced System Care, and most importantly Windows Watchdog (Scotty?). I wasn’t having the card reader problem, but in the process of upgrading all drivers, i managed to get hold of an update to Texas Instruments PCIxx20 FlashMedia Controller for Vista. That took care of a conflict that constantly showed up in Device Manager. I can confirm the speakers problem, though i have been inside the guts of the machine and there is more than one problem with the wiring of the speakers. Very tenuous to say the least. My USB plugs are also quite loose, though not critically. I also have the annoying “this device can perform faster”, but have so far found no satsifactory solution. The problem seemed to happen much more frequently after the purchase of a new ipod shuffle. In addition, no other USB devices are useable (e.g., external hard drive) when it is plugged in. On the bright side, the USB ports do actually work, but I wonder if this message (“this device can perform faster”) is just a phantom and that they can’t actually perform faster. A final note: i had a problem with “this device not recognized”, especially with the new ipod shuffle. The solution, after much wrangling, was simply to shut down, unplug both power supply and battery for 20 minutes or so, then reboot. Problem solved.
December 20th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Sharon, if your USB take a crap, then your only option is what I did, get a USB PC card for your card slot. I was able to get one from Newegg last year for free after rebate
They’re generally about $12
December 25th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Marcus, I plan on ordering one of those cards. I just worry, based on reviews of them on various sites (Newegg, Tiger Direct, etc), that it may screw things up worse or cause permanent damage to my computer.
I’m crossing my fingers that I’ll be in the group of folks that have it work flawlessly upon plugin.
And this is all really just temporary until I can get a new computer, and back files up once I do get said new computer.
So much stress for a 4 yr old machine!
January 8th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Have any one had an issues with the DVD rom driver?I am trying to reload Win XP but it doesn’t recognize my dvd drive. When I fdisked I deleted all partions.
Sys doesnt see the dvd drive. Where can I find a driver for the dvd drive?
January 19th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
For some reason my Dell 700m powers off by itself and tells me that the battery isn’t charged when I have it plugged in! The connector to laptop does seem a little loose…and don’t think battery is even charging anymore! How can I know if my battery is charging and what should my power schemes be set at?
January 26th, 2009 at 1:25 am
Sharon, there’s no way a USB PC card would hurt your computer.
Donna, you might need a new charger, and a new battery. I bought 2 batteries when I got my 700m, and neither of them hold a charge any longer. When I unplug my laptop to a wall, it instantly warns me that the battery is low and starts to shut down. if its not registering that your laptop is plugged in then I suggest getting a new charger I got one for dirt cheap on ebay.
February 12th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
I have had my Inspiron 700m for 3 years or so now and it has served me well. The battery has been getting worse and worse for the last year and finally died completely. When this happened I got a message on boot that said “WARNING: battery not recognized. The system will be unable to charge the batteries until this battery is removed. Press F1 to continue.” I purchased a new battery, but it gives me the same message. When I first plugged it in the power meter read 63%, but it has gone steadily down to 0%, so there must have been some charge already on the battery when I received it, but it is definitely not charging. Most of the info I found on the web about this problem says to update the BIOS. When I tried to do that I get an error telling me that I can’t update the BIOS because no battery is found. Catch 22. I don’t see any battery settings when I go into Setup. I don’t think it is a bad battery since the old one does the same thing. Right now I just have the battery unplugged and the laptop works fine on A/C power, but it’s a pain to be tethered. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
February 14th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
You probably need a different battery.
Did you buy a aftermarket battery or an OEM battery. Sadly when you a buy a laptop battery you really need to buy one directly from Dell. All the $40 on ebay really suck.
February 15th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
is anybody else impressed on how well vista runs on the dell 700m i love it.i have 1.5 gig of ram in it and its great not one problem and everything works great.it runs better then my new one that came with vista and core 2 duo with 2 gig of ram.i love this thing fuck the new shit.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Iam looking for driver dell inspiron 700m, especialy network controller,
February 24th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Returning to 700m I purchased a long time ago. Wife kicked me off her newer laptop because of iTunes conflicts. This thing is working like a champ after years and years. I have ordered two 1G memory sticks and I just discovered the SD port I never knew was there.
Does Vista really work well on this machine?
I’m just afraid I will slip inot driver hell if I try to upgrade.
February 25th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
I’ve been wanting to switch to Vista for a while, but haven’t. I’m using the original 40gb hard drive still and the smallest Vista install requires 20gb. I do have a dual boot setup with Linux Ubuntu, and its awesome!
March 14th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Hello, I recently purchased an 8GB SD card and cannot will not be recognized by the 700m. I tried the updating driver route, and tried using other Texas Instrument drivers (eg. PC21), but have had no luck. I don’t think the ‘Updated’ Dell driver released in 2006 has support for 8GB cards.
Am I stuck with a useless SD reader? What can I do? I’d really appreciate some help with this. Has anyone with a 8GB SD card been able to get their card too work on a 700m?
March 14th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
to* work
May 13th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Here’s a link to the driver for anyone who was asking: http://tinyurl.com/700mSDdriver
try that…
May 14th, 2009 at 9:37 am
That’s a link to the Dell Driver page for the 700m. That won’t give you the updated card reader driver. I’m currently using 2.0.0.8, that page has 1.0.25 or something
July 9th, 2009 at 5:35 am
i want dell drivers inspiron 700m
July 14th, 2009 at 12:58 am
If anyone can help I have the same problem as Melody. I cannot update the freakin’ bios. Does anyone know a workaround with the floppy version download? It is so annoying. I might grab a new battery but some people claim it is the AC adapter that cause it to not recognize and charge the battery, ugh. Besides that it seems like a fantastic laptop.
July 16th, 2009 at 1:36 am
I have the same problem as David, I have tried to use the usb boot, the flash program need a dell original battery to run, so it would work, my new battery is an non-dell battery, so it wouldn’t be able to upgrade the bios, no new verion of bios will not identify the new battery…..
July 29th, 2009 at 6:30 am
I’m having the same problem as Rob. I updated the driver for my SD card reader and it still won’t read my 8 GB SD card. It just says “Please insert a disk into drive E” when my card is already in “E”.
August 8th, 2009 at 6:22 am
I own the 700m since September 2004. Besides the SD card problem and touchpad failure, never had any problem. I spray painted the white trimmings silver and have a 710m palmrest, upgraded the processor to 2.1 GHz Dothan and use a 64 GB Transcend SSD. It will probably run another year, before I retire it.
August 26th, 2009 at 9:23 am
I got my 700m in September of 2004. It was a refurbished model. Like everyone else, I have had a USB issue. My top one works while the bottom one is dead. I’ve had to replace the keyboard and the ac/svideo board (loose power jack). I’ve upgraded my memory and HD. Other than that, it been a great laptop and a workhorse for me.
August 29th, 2009 at 8:44 am
I just downloaded the driver from Dell and I was able to read SD card 2GB. The link provided above was very helpful
October 3rd, 2009 at 5:18 pm
My 700 is great; but last week the screen suddenly went black and the only way I can get it back to white is to press the top corner of the LCD. Any ideas on how to fix? Where can I get a replacement screen?
October 4th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Following driver works for my Inspiron 700m to read 8GB SD Card
1. Run the sp43509.exe and it will expand the install files into the directory you specify.
2. Update manually from device manager. Choose “install from a specific location”, ” I will choose what driver to install” and press “Have disk”. Browse to where you extracted the files(Ex. C:\DELL\drivers\SP43509\Windows\tiinst\XP32) and choose tifm21. Then choose, “Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller”.
Texas Instruments Media Card Reader Driver
Version: 2.0.0.9 (1 Apr 2009)
Operating System(s): Microsoft Windows Vista Business (32-bit), Microsoft Windows Vista Business (64-bit), Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise (32-bit), Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise (64-bit), Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic (32-bit), Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
File name: sp43509.exe (6.4 MB)
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?swItem=ob-70996-1
November 29th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
akira’s recommendation works!
December 4th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
x2 on akira’s recommendation worked! Thanks for posting.
January 6th, 2010 at 8:55 am
Thanks for the walk-through, Akira–worked like a charm!!!
January 12th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
Akira’s link works!
Update the driver on your Dell Inspiron 700m to read high-capacity SD cards with your SD card reader
Following driver works for my Inspiron 700m to read 8GB SD Card
1. Run the sp43509.exe and it will expand the install files into the directory you specify.
2. Update manually from device manager. Choose “install from a specific location”, ” I will choose what driver to install” and press “Have disk”. Browse to where you extracted the files(Ex. C:\DELL\drivers\SP43509\Windows\tiinst\XP32) and choose tifm21. Then choose, “Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller”.
Texas Instruments Media Card Reader Driver
Version: 2.0.0.9 (1 Apr 2009)
Operating System(s): Microsoft Windows Vista Business (32-bit), Microsoft Windows Vista Business (64-bit), Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise (32-bit), Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise (64-bit), Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic (32-bit), Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
File name: sp43509.exe (6.4 MB)
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?swItem=ob-70996-1
January 13th, 2010 at 10:00 am
Akira’s solution is spot-on! Thanks a lot for posting.
January 14th, 2010 at 11:39 pm
When I follow Akira’s instructions, when I select tifm21, I get an error saying that the folder does not contain a compatible driver. I’m running Vista Ultimate 32 SP2. Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?
January 16th, 2010 at 8:01 am
Just wanted everyone to know that i have Windows 7 running on my 700m and everything works like a charm!
January 16th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Kyle,
You need to choose the driver for Vista 32 which is in like
“C:\DELL\drivers\SP43509\Windows\tiinst\Vista32″ instead of in “C:\DELL\drivers\SP43509\Windows\tiinst\XP32″.
February 3rd, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Thanks a million guys. I had to manually delete the old driver inf file first in order for Windows 7 to accept the new driver (it kept just reinstalling the old XP driver I got from Dell). After that, the instructions given worked great. Be sure to manually select the driver
March 2nd, 2010 at 8:05 am
i tried playing HD video ( 1080 p) on my 700m and its video is lagging behind a lot . i am using vlc player . any help??
March 7th, 2010 at 4:57 am
My DVD is not in device manager and does not work, any thoughts. I have XP.
March 19th, 2010 at 7:39 am
Update on 700m card reader driver
I installed this no problem, per Akira’s instructions. Now when I put the computer in “hibernate” it doesn’t start back up again. Now I’m forced to shut down the computer every time, which is a drag. Any way to fix this?
March 22nd, 2010 at 9:35 pm
I replaced my CMOS battery and powerjack on my 700m. I took the computer apart and upon putting it together the keyboard is not working. I noticed that one of the clips for the zif connector is broken. Has anyone had similar issues?
November 29th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
I have read the posts but haven’t seen my issue exactly. My 700m has been a fairly reliable little machine for approx 5 years. This past weekend for no apparent reason it shut down, completely, after logging in and running for 5 to 10 minutes. I hit the power button and relog in and it does the same thing wether it is on batery or ac adapter. I have no error messages related to battery or charger but the shut down time shortens until I try to repower and it starts to load then shuts down immediately. It acts like a heat issue but the cooling fan does come on on the bottom of the unit.
Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.
Oh and I tried moving memory modules around, removed power and battery, oh yeah the usb ports both quit working,no error message, unistalled all port and rebooted didn’t help.
December 12th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
I have just updated my SD Card reader per sp43509.exe method under Windows 7 Professional (32 bit) and find that I can read my 32GB card. The driver I used is the Vista 32 bit and it reports itself as version 2.0.0.9 dated 14/12/2007.
Superb!!!