Posts by Dead Duck

I would second the thought that it's human nature for people that have problems to seek help or compain on a forum. Those that have working machines are probably too busy doing other things with their computer. As will all products,...

Thanks for the replies. Mine seem to be idling at around 58 C, which seems a bit on the high side. I'll have to experiment more with other games and what happens, too. I appreciate the answers!

Hey everyone, I semi-recently had a tech guy come out to replace the motherboard. After he dissasembled everything, I noticed that there seemed to be no thermal tape or anything between the CPU and GPU and the bracket/heatsink that...

It's really up to you. It's a matter of personal opinion. Looking at the pic, it looks relatively minimal to me. (It's difficult to tell with pics, of course.) I easily have more light leakage on my laptop than yours and I really...

Here's my quick explanation on how LCDs work. I may be oversimplifying or just plain wrong, so someone correct me if I am. LCD stands for "Liquid Crystal Display". One of the features of these liquid crystals is that they...

Update: Whew. Ok, the holidays got real busy. I contacted Dell and they had me run all sorts of diagnostics on the machine. Everything seemed to check out ok. Ultimately they shipped me a new motherboard and hard drive. The tech...

Hey Para, Thanks for keeping me updated with this. Sorry I didn't get a chance to write back. Work went into overdrive and I've been busy. I will contact Dell regarding this issue and see what happens! I appreciate it!

Ok, So I know this is non-computer related, but I wanted to wish everyone here a happy holidays. Many of you helped me when I first purchased my laptop a few years ago, and I have since tried to carry on that fine tradition of...

Hehehe. Great stuff!

I've had my laptop (specs below) since about May/June 2004. So far I've been very satisfied with it. I rarely use my desktop now, even though it's a fairly good machine (P4 3.2 w/ 256 MB X800XL video card) just because I like to game...