Posts by Michelle

Well, my hotdrive arrived today and I plugged in my old HD and hooked it up to my ALX and it wsa instantly recogonized. So now I'm saving my data before I go any further with my Sager. Of course I'm having issues getting to my favorites...

yeah, but then I still have to pay for shipping and whatnot, and this computer has been more of a headache then it's really worth. but I probably will since it's cheaper than buying a new computer (oh how we get spoiled with age) I...

Hmm, off to check online to find one of those external notebook hard drive enclosures then. Though if it's actually worth it to get a new mobo again, I'm not sure, this will be mobo number 4 if I get another new one.

Well I cracked open the mALX to take a peak at the second HD space, and sure enough it's a different standard. Would hooking the HD up to a different laptop work to check if the HD is okay, as in not slaved but it's own primary HD? I...

I'm not sure, I could try slaving it to my mALX, but I'm not certain if the HD's are the same standard.

Well I dug up the recovery cd that came with the computer, and it didn't do a thing. The Boot from CD option came up, but nothing registered. I then found an old Win2K full version cd and it came up with the installation screen. I...

Okay, so today I got home, turned on my power transformer that is my old 8790 is hooked up to and started to turn her on. It beeped at me, and gave the old flashing caps/num/scroll lock trick and then turned itself off. I figured I...

Yay, I'm so glad my question was able to help out others.

OMG, I got home and installed synergy, it is /exactly/ what I was looking for. Thank you so much! It works beautifully.

Read up on the threads all about artifacting and you'll find a million and one different answers on possible fixes (other than the obvious of replacing the motherboard) http://www.notebookforums.com/thread56210.html is the longest...