Posts by aguer

I'm pretty sure that my LCD screen is shot, and unfortunately, the warranty on this notebook expired in october, so sending it to SONY for repair is completely out of the question (They want $500 when I paid $900 for this notebook, it's...

I want to max out the ram on my notebook to 4GB, but I've got a question regarding ram timings. I assume that SONY, along with most of the other OEMs ship their notebooks with PC5300 ram thats set at the somewhat relaxed 5.5.5.15....

I've run ubuntu on this laptop for a couple of months, and it ran fine, but unfortunately, I'm going to have to switch back to windows for work. 1) Is there a way to get a clean, legal, install of Vista Home Ultimate using my OEM...

If it can run this it can run anything. When it autodetected on my system. The settings were static lighting, maximum quality, and 1024x768. It runs nicely. If I drop it to high or medium quality, I'll probably have no trouble...

Windows passwords are awesome and all, but how do I get into the bios set a password on this laptop?

The audibility of the speakers seems fine whenever I play a game or listen to an mp3 for a little bit but the audio seems abnormally low (voices are barely audiable when maxed out) in MPC or WMP. Windows Vista. Some sort of codec...

I just purchased an ASUS-A8JS that shipped with Vista Home Premium. What pieces of asus packaged bloatware are safe to uninstall? What should I uninstall? What does Asus Splendid Video Processing Do?

I decided on an ASUS A8JS. modifed with a 7200 rpm HD, 2GB of Ram, The Alienware seemed to have very poor battery life (1:40 min) after talking to some people so I passed on it. Overall, this notebook seems like a pretty good...

I'm new here and I'm having trouble deciding which notebook to purchase. I was looking at various 17' notebooks for about a week, but realized that they're just not practical when it comes to my needs as a college student MacBooks are...