Dell Mini 9 Blues: Desktop Icons Don’t Stay in its Assigned Position

Users may notice that their desktop icons won’t stay in their assigned positions instead they shift back to their original positions after a system restart. This is mostly experienced with Dell Mini 9 installed with the Windows XP operating system having a default screen resolution of 1024 x 600. Symptoms with Dell Mini 9s shipped with the Ubuntu operating system has not be replicated so far.

Dell engineering points Dell Mini 9’s BIOS version A03 as well as the earlier BIOS versions to be the main point-of-failure.

To fix this, just logon to support.dell.com and download BIOS version A04 or later, whichever is available. The recent BIOS have been recently updated by Dell engineering to address not only the desktop icon issues but also issues with its wireless, battery and power, and Ubuntu.


For more info, check out the topic posted in the Dell Community Forum and read through the discussions.

Source: http://en.community.dell.com/forums/p/19220588/19420756.aspx#19420756

New Vista updates available for compatibility and reliability issues.

Issue Description:
On OptiPlex™ systems with the AMD Radeon HD Pro and Radeon 2400 XT, the following symptoms may occur:

System freeze: Displays as a black or blank screen.
Video corruption: If one or more displays are connected, the screen displays black or white vertical lines across.
Blue screen error: STOP 0xEA with the ati2dvag module as the source.
NOTE: Ati2dvag means the computer has caught the ati2dvag bug. This bug seems to affect ATI video cards.

Solution:
OptiPlex computers require updates to the driver and Video BIOS if the following conditions are true:

The computer was manufactured prior to October 12th, 2007
The computer has an AMD Radeon HD 2400 PRO or HD 2400 XT video adapter

To resolve the potential bluescreen error and computer lockup, update to at least version 8.42 of the AMD graphics driver. Use the following link on the Dell support website for downloading the updates:

Radeon HD 2400 PRO Windows® XP driver: R168671.EXE
Radeon HD 2400 XT Windows® XP driver: R168681.EXE

Computers showing corrupt video can be resolved with an updated Video BIOS (VBIOS). Use the following link for downloading the BIOS update for the adapter in your computer:

Radeon HD 2400 PRO Video BIOS: R169419.EXE
Radeon HD 2400 XT Video BIOS: R169410.EXE

Power surge on hub port a USB device have exceeded power limit on hub port.

Problem:
Error message, "Power surge on hub port a USB device have exceeded power limit on hub port" appears everytime a USB device is plugged.

Solution:
1) Load Device Manager:
a) Right click "My Computer" and select "Properties"
b) Goto the "hardware" tab
c) Click "Device Manager"
2) Locate "Universal Serial Bus controllers" in the list and expand
3) Select the first USB Universal Host Controller. Mine is "Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM USB Universal Host Controller 2658"
4) Right click and select "Properties"
5) Goto the "Advanced" tab
6) Check "Don't tell me about USB errors"
7) Click "OK"
Note. If you have multiple host controllers then they should all be effected by the above action.
8) Close Device Manager.