Posts by idale

I guess one thing I'm nervous about on the cleaning side is that everything that would need to be cleaned is somewhat secured with thermal tape/pads/compound or something. Like with removing the keyboard plate, do I really just keep...

Thanks for the preliminary feeling. I definitely need to clean out the insides, even if it doesn't turn out to necessarily be an overheating issue. A few more things as I've been playing with it a little more.... If I can...

Well, I've been using my 8790 for over 1.5 years now, always been pretty good to me, except for some artifacting that was introduced fairly recently (solved by slightly underclocking). Today, though I had the laptop on, and mostly...

Wow, no resolution in all this time? I'm running DVI to my TV at 1777x1000 (1080i, compensating for overscan) and that works great for video usage (but not very good with text in Windows or games). I tried 1600x1200, and got the...

Quote: Originally Posted by khu The strangest thing is, this orange light has an icon above it with an envelope, signifying, I assume, mail or email...but it actually describes the entire WiFi's status...quite...

Yep, it's a known issues on everything since the Cat 4.6s (as mentioned on the Omega site). He's looking into it, but it'll probably still be a rev or two until he's able to figure out how to fix whatever ATI broke. Anyone know which...

Quote: Originally Posted by squeezebox If it's a rear-projection HDTV, it will probably not accept your computer's DVI video output, even if the rear-projection has a DVI input. I keep hearing about people...

Another who was considering an AW, and in trying to do research found the AW forums here (since of course AW's own boards are closed to the public). Then soon after started shopping Sager instead, since it seemed like a better deal....

You have two options: 1) Stretch the image to the panel size. This gives you 800x600 filling the whole screen, which means 4:3 stretched out to the 16:10 ratio. It's not bad, but it's noticeable. 2) Don't stretch the image to the...

I'm so spoiled by my 8790's screen. I could never go back to sub-17", non-widescreen again.