Posts by apex430

similar thing happened to me (except for the bios flash). I just turned off the lappyfor like 5 mins then rebooted, it then kicks to the start screen and lets you chose safe mode. enter safemode and do a system restore to prior point...

Sold!

price drop : $2150 shipped..

Why are you guys / gals haggling over measly $2k machines... Splurge and get that $4500 Falcon NW fragbook..... ha ha ha

For sale, I had this on sale on @ssbay but the buyer is flaking so i'd post it here. Area-51m, saucer silver 3.2Ghz, HT 512MB memory DVD/CD-RW combo 40gb hdd. 16.1 screen, no dead pixel you guys know the rest of the...

I CORE, when it 'crashes' the computer freezes during reboot after driver install, i'll get a flicker of the blue screen for like 1sec. computer will hang up and i'll have to reboot and it'll take me to the maintenance menu (safemode,...

I have driver version 6.something.. dated 6/23/2003. it's not that old. it's the original m10 driver, it works fine. I also did the uninstall of the orig ATI drivers and rebooted, it still crashed when i ran the 7.91 or newer...

has anyone has this trouble with their aw 51m? i dl the newe 7.91 thru 7.99 drivers. when i installed it it would freeze up my lappy. my lappy came with the radeon 9600 128m card. i can play most games, but when i tried to run KOTOR...

Any one having problem installing the drivers? after upgrading the ati driver i had winxp reboot problem, the only correction was to rollback to the older driver. i'm still on the version 6 drivers but it runs fine.

I want to upgrade the harddrive on my Area51m. Does anyone have suggestions on how to do the easily? i don't have a 2nd bay kit to plug the new harddrive into and ghost. any opinions / helpful hints would be greatly appreciated ...