Posts by porty

Have a look at your laptop battery. It'll have a bank of about 5 or 6 slots, along one internal edge, which is where the battery marries up to corresponding terminals on the laptop body. These slots are quite narrow, so it's very hard...

Before I start, I'd better say that I build and service desktops and laptops for a living. So please understand that this question may be best handled by those with a reasonable amount of experience. The answer is certainly NOT,...

Thanks for the information. Unfortunately it's a bit late to help with that particular job (August 2007) but I'll make a note of it for future reference. Cheers :-)

Thanks :-)

Seems like this machine will only charge to about 85-89% and won't go any further. Anyone know if there's anything I can do about this? I can strip the machine down, if that's what it takes. But I wondered if it might be a software...

Oh gawd. Not another of these weird BBSs that hide some of the posts. How can I see all posts and not just the last one? Anyway, thanks qhn for your added remarks. I've since spoken to the retailer who seems to be pretty clued up on...

Yes. That end of the chain is OK - it's just the laptop itself that I'm not sure about. Oh well, looks like another hour on the phone waiting for Dell to give me more wrong information :-)

Working on an Inspiron 2200 and it seems to me that it doesn't have wireless capability. Dells "Helpdesk" (LOL) assures me that it IS wireless, and that all I need to do is press Fn\F2 and it'll be available. Well, this...

I have a coupla older Compaq laptops. Their HP-branded power adapters are both rated at outputs of 19volts @ 3.95amps. (I guess the wattage would be 19x3.95=75.o5?) BTW, I dunno if this affects the equation but as NZ units, they're...

Thanks QHN. I needed to get the disassembled laptop off my workbench (and back into one piece before I forgot which bits went where!) so by the time I got your reply I'd already done the job. I split the CPU from the heatsink with a...