Posts by Mr T

I am not a great fan of HP due to the amount I see in the shop for repair , but that may be down to popularity and the way people tend to abuse laptops these days (throw away item, unfortunately the data on it may not be)... However,...

Been using FF4 on Ubuntu and like 3.6 is is really, really slow - no extensions, no firewall, virus scanner and it is still slow..... IE8 and IE9 blow it away on a Vista machine... Mozilla need to pull their finger out....

I would recommend what qhn said, plus it is always worth dusting it out (while it is off) with an air duster... I would avoid SONY personally as they are expensive for what they are... Better brands include Toshiba, ASUS, Samsung and the...

Unplug mains, remove battery and hold power switch down for about 10 seconds, plug in mains and see if it POST's....

And you cannot use windows.. (you can install it from a flash drive, but not run it)... Best by far for notebooks is Ubuntu _ simple install/use and picks up most hardware, plus its free...

Ah, what you need to do is to do an old type of install of the ATI driver, through device manager and NOT letting windows choose the driver, choose it yourself from the list.. What the driver is trying to do is update all parts, some of...

Quote: Originally Posted by Luke The 8790's had a (optional)built in tuner, but if I recall it was coax. Yes, you are correct, it was the 'yellow' video in port...

On those ATI cards, it is video out, to run the laptop out to a TV... To run video in, you need the laptop equivalent of a TV card that allows capture.. Like this ....

Quote: Originally Posted by vaago So let me see if I understand you. Windows - which actually runs the hardware is telling me that at the lowest level, that script which causes the mechanical device that I have the DVD...

Most are usually mini PCI-e ports, one for the wifi card and usually one for a Wireless-G modem... The SATA ones look like SATA ports, but the SATA SSD drives like the ones in the Eee PC's are mini PCI-e, the card itself which holds the...