Tuesday, the 19th of Februari the Dell Vostro 200 Slim Tower I ordered without Windows tax arrived. Back then I had unpacked the brand new computer, and placed it on my desk, but besides opening it and have a look at the inside, I hadn't done anything else with it because I've been too busy with various projects including a small SEO project for a Dutch website. Anyway, for today I had planned to take several photos of the inside of the Dell Vostro 200 Slim Tower.
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Great photos of the Vostro slim! I just ordered one for myself, going to by a graphics card after I test out the onboard. Can you tell me if an EIDE 40 pin HD will go in as a second drive (is there a 40 pin connector) or does it need to be SATA? Thanks!
Thanks Tom!
There is no 40 pin connector if I recall correctly. A possible solution might be to buy an IDE to USB bridge board or a SATA to IDE bridge board.
The latter looks promising to me, and it looks like it could be just connected to the IDE hard disk drive without sticking out too much.
Another option might be to put the drive in an external enclosure.
Hope this helps.
We bought 3 of these for church and I'm buying one for home...one quick question...what size are those pci slot openings? They are short. Don't know what size to get when getting a pci card adapter for one of ours at church.
Hi,have just got the same model, going to be using it as a media center. Have had problem finding a graphics card narrow enough to fit next to my twin tuner. Do you know if the Ati would fit in with a full length card in the other PCI express slot?
Thanks
hi John
i also have a vostro 200 silm, and i have a question, did you buy that graphic card extra ? because i buy my brand new, and i don;t have that graphic card
Hi chong,
When I ordered the Dell Vostro 200 slim online I could specify if I wanted the aforementioned graphics card, which I did. I suggest that you try to contact Dell and ask if it's possible to have the card ordered, or (probably cheaper), see if you can order it from a local/online computer shop.
John - I recently installed MS Flight Simulator X. I ran the program after the instalation and the graphics were horrible. Would buying an upgraded graphics card fix this issue?
@Drew - are you currently using the on-board graphics card?
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hi, you would not belive it if I told you but we have the same system, Dell vostro slim.. and I to odered the same video card ati hd 2400 xt and the came processor.. 2.40 with L2 4mb.. and again the same.. with out windows.. N serise.. hmm.. however i also ordered a media card reader.. and my hard drive is 160 GB:-( i should have taken 320.. mistake.. will be getting a 250 in the weekend.. the system is cool.. just ordered 2 80MM led fans.. as both the fans are near a grill and would look cool at nite.. will send you picture's of that.. :-)