Posts by Tim Sloper

Well a quick update... after doing some more benchmark reading on the SATA drives I've opted to go with the Hitachi 7K100. I cancelled my original order with Dell and re-ordered with the 7K100. I am still staying with the Corsair 667...

Newegg: Corsair 512MB 667MHz SODIMMs x 2 = $98.00 Seagate Momentus 7200.1 SATA (100 GB) = $195.00 Dell: E1505 - T2400 (1.83 GHz) - 15.4" WSXGA+ with Truelife - 512MB (single DIMM 533 MHz) - ATI X1400 (256MB) - 40 GB...

Has the Dell Truemobile 300 driver (Bluetooth) been installed on your system. There is a registry entry for this feature you can change to turn off the notification behavior. I do not have the driver installed on my system (using SP2 BT)...

You will need XP Pro to use Remote Desktop. The home version does not have the capability. Tightvnc is a better alternative to RealVNC. They are almost identical except more effort has been put into the Win32 version of TightVNC. I use...

Digitalman, I am experience the exact same problem. Hibernate by itself is fine... a standby then hibernate scenario will sometimes come back with the display off (backlight off). I have to force a poweroff. My machine has a clean...

Get the Student Edition at CompUSA, etc... $135-$145. Tim

DVDDecryptor can rip to an ISO. If you do have nero you can just mount the ISO with Nero ImageDrive and access it as though it were a physical DVD. If your goal is just to have the movie on your HD temporarily you can just rip in file...

DVDDecryptor is an excellent (and free) tool for ripping. I used it a couple of weeks ago to rip some movies to my HD for a long flight. Unless HD space is limited I would not go through the hassle of using DVDShrink or any other utility...

All of my BT driver testing was done with clean installs of XP. SP2 picked it up automatically but keep in mind I had no prior BT driver installations. I wish I could help you more. Tim

A05 was the release that contained the firmware upgrade. A03 is on my Dell Driver CD. A05 and A03 worked fine for me with my MX900. A02 could not establish a working connection. I'm using XP SP2 RC2 and it's BT support has been working...