Posts by hyc

I bought an HP dv5z in August, and it always ran relatively hot. Within the past month it started to flake out - the wifi would hang, the wired ethernet would hang, then the hard drive would hang and not be detected on an immediate...

I installed Ubuntu 8.04 on my new dv5z. The installation was mostly pretty easy, but some features didn't work. If you try to suspend to RAM it will go to sleep, but it won't wake up properly after that, it always hangs during the...

Are there going to be any AMD based models with WSXGA+ screens? I've got SXGA now and can't see going to a mere WXGA resolution...

I'm getting 4-5 hours of surfing/email time on my M6Ne with both battery packs installed.

I just mounted my new drive in a firewire enclosure. Booted under Linux, partitioned the drive, used dd to copy the old partitions over and then swapped the drives. I always have a spare 2.5" firewire enclosure handy anyway,...

Yes. Works fine. If you go to the drive manufacturer's web site and compare drive specs to any other drive you'll see that the power ratings are all comparable, and obviously the mounting dimensions are standardized. As far as ATA/IDE...

I have a Hitachi 100GB 7200rpm drive in my M6Ne. I had the 60GB drive in there before. Works fine.

I used a Targus Chillpad but it started to fall apart after a few months. It's all plastic construction, and the metal screws holding the two halves together stripped their mounting holes. I'm pretty much sworn off of Targus products...

I've run my M6Ne at 120MHz FSB using DDR400 SODIMMs. There is a way to tweak the clocks such that the PCI clock speed stays unchanged, thus keeping your audio working and other such stuff. It was written up on a German forum, and I've...

Yes, but those are military-spec, no need for that kind of self-destruct mechanism in a consumer drive. Considering how long flash devices have been around, and how popular USB thumb drives are, it's really surprising that more...