Posts by avernet

Quote: I just ran into this for the first time today (first time I've tried an external monitor). Anyone have the solutuion for an 8790? Please & Thank you. iniquitous, Give up! I have been using my 8790 for...

I opened the machine, took out the heat sink and I think did all the cleaning I could. Is there more that I can do than clean the heat sink and the area around it? Regarding cleaning, after more than two years the heat sink was pretty...

G-Omaha, The CPU is a 3.4 GHz P4 and the machine has 2 GB or RAM, if that make any difference. Now the reported temperature is 52 degC and the machine has been idle for a while. The other day it was 57 degC maybe because the room...

G-Omaha, I followed your advice, opened the beast, and took out the heat sink. I expected to find the heat sink in a sorry state, clogged with an insane amount of dust, but... nothing. The heat sink and the path to the fans was...

I guess I will have to do that one of those days. The web site where the images are hosted does not seem to work right now; too bad. Thank you for the response doggie96. Alex -- Blog (XML, Web apps, Open...

After a little more than 2 years, I still find my NP8790 pretty fast, and overall a very decent machine. The main problem I have is noise. This machine is so loud! The fans make so much noise that I can't sleep in next room if the...

G-Omaha, Thank you for the reply. I will look into this. Alex -- Blog (XML, Web apps, Open Source): http://www.orbeon.com/blog/

The signal strength of the wireless networks I see from my Sager is always much lower than the one seen from other laptops (ThinkPads, Dells). In fact it is so bad, that I am not wondering if this is not because the antenna has not been...

What you are saying is not completely unreasonable. But note that when this happens it looks as if the right button is pressed. There is no way you can do that by just touching the pad, which seems to point to a software issue, more than...

I have an annoying issue with the touchpad on my NP 8790: after a while the touchpad doesn't respond normal and as I move my finger on the touchpad the mouse cursor jumps to what look like random locations on the screen, sometimes...