Posts by dmortimer

I am looking to buy the upgradable video card module for my Alienware Area-51M 766 notebook. I currently have the nVidia FX Go5600 128MB module and want to upgrade to the nVidia FX Go5700 128MB module but Alienware does not sell them...

Just a few things. I work with monitors and LCD's every day and although it is mutch harder to burn images on either CRT's or LCD's now a days it is still possible. However, your does not sound like this is the case. Another thing...

I bought my 766 with the 3.2 Extreme CPU. However, I once had to send it in for repair and they sent it back with a regular 3.2. I quickly called them on it and after telling me this could not happen and making me jump through lots of...

I was wondering about ordering replacement parts myself. More along the lines of ordering replacement parts after your warranty is over. For example, lets say I need to replace my cpu fan in the future which is common or if my video...

I have looked in event viewer but not gathered any useful information to help solve this. I forgot to post some of the information on my first post about this error so attached the detailed picture of it to this post. It is pretty...

Hey Gang, I have had an annoying problem that I have been unable to get to go away. It does not seem to happen every time or I cannot reproduce it reliably. The problem is when I boot up my Area-51M notebook running XP Home every so...

I ran City of Heroes on my Area-51M without any issues for several months when I played that game but never did play Doom 3.

Don't have my notebook here to look at it but you may want to try going into the device manager and clicking on the View button and choose the option to Show Hidden Devices. It should not be located in there but maybe for some reason...

When I had this issue with my Linksys G wireless card I tried all the old drivers and everything else but could not get it to work which is the same thing many other people have found out as well. I had to return it and go with a...

Get a can of compressed air and use it on all the vents to clear the dust and see if that helps with the air flow and overheating. I remember reading another similar post a while back and that is all it took to stop the shutdowns.