How to Max Out a Dell XPS 600 and Your Credit Card - Turning it on

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Here it was, finally, the moment all of this had built up to: turning on our new DELL XPS for the first time. I rolled a high back chair in front of the desk, and pushed the power button. Here's what I saw:

Success!! Or so I thought. It turns out that once Windows was installed and working, one monitor would go blank each time it got into Windows. When booting up, both monitors worked and showed everything you would see while loading Windows, but once Windows loaded, one screen went completely blank.

After troubleshooting this for awhile, we got frustrated and called Dell tech support. It seems that they haven't been using the Geforce 7900 cards long, so they didn't know much about it. Out of desperation, the representative I was working with finally asked me to uninstall and then reinstall the nVidia drivers. Believe it or not, that actually worked. Seems that when the drivers install, it checks how many monitors you have hooked up, and installs the appropriate options. Now both monitors worked. Too bad it needed a 27 minute call to Dell tech support and the help of a support rep named Ryan to get it working.

But wait! That's not all! There's one last piece I needed to hook up!

That's right, the wireless Bluetooth headphones. These were fairly simple. Just had to insert one AAA into the transmitter, and two AAAs into the headphones, and I was ready. I plugged the transmitter into the Audio Control Pod as follows:

I pushed the small button on the transmitter and turned on the headphones, and that was it! I had audio in about 45 seconds after I installed the batteries. These were very easy to set up and operate. The fact that the headphones needed real batteries instead of being rechargeable was both a blessing and a curse. It was nice to be able to use the headphones immediately, without the need to charge them first. But on the other hand, having to keep a ready supply of AAA batteries on hand, and not being able to just recharge the headphones is a real nuisance.

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