Posts by Computer_Potato

Quote: Originally Posted by cox payne no any news about the drivers? The unique solutions is to open the computer? because i am affraid to do that.. That is the only known way. The company making the...

Quote: Originally Posted by atstriker2000 I'm going to put a link in the Alienware 7700 forum about this also, that would have saved me a ton of time, months! Of course this will also work with Win 7. My...

Well the original versions of the 9860 form Nov 2004 stopped working when Realtek added KB888111 to their drivers. The only way to solve this problem is to install KB835221 instead. Also Vista and later versions of Linux will not...

Well I'm not sure what the problem is. The original fan for the graphics card does not make much noise unless it's going full blast. And yes a new graphics card will cost at least $500-600 if you can find one. It is specific to the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Exotic_Guy I think for this laptop graphic card doesnt have a fan...only thing is heatsink fan and underneath is graphic card ? if i am not wrong..and its really small graphic card Geforce g0...

Get Thermal CPU - CPU temp (2 fans and a big heat sink) System - DDR2 temp (1 fan but no heat sink) VGA - 2 temps for Graphics Card (1 fan and a small heat sink) Sounds like the fan on your Graphics Card is not working. What is the...

I never used Warrentech but like you said almost all the reviews were bad. In fact you are the only good review I remember reading. My 9860 from Nov 2004 is still running great. The only thing I had to do was remove the Modem so the...

Ubuntu 7.10 reads and writes NTFS now. You could also partition the HDD. Part Fat32 and part NTFS.

I have one of the original 9860s and had no major problems (3 years old) . The only problem I had was with the modem chip interfering with Realtek Sound Chip which many with early 9860s have. I removed the modem myself and no...

Just be lucky if it charges at all. Those batteries will only charge and discharge so many times. If you rarely use it on battery, then it is most likely the power connection to the Mother Board which can't really be fixed unless...