Posts by Mr T

Can you strip the heatsink and fan out, clean it, esp the dust between the fan and the blades of the heatsink, also scrape the old heat paste off the CPU and heat sink and replace it..?

What brand and model is the laptop and what operating system are you running?

Quote:Originally Posted by Bijoux I always run it on power saver so thats not the problem. Yes I use HP battery check everyday. And after every charge, it loses 2% of its full charge capacity BTW, does any of you guys know what...

You have to calibrate the battery.... Battery calibration.... See if you can use the battery tester... It does work... It is just the way HP set up some of their laptops (DELL are similar, but you can do it with some models in the...

A lot of notebooks have a warranty seal sticker over one of the CPU heatsink screws, on ASUS there is usually one over one of the case screws... AS makes very little difference to cooling in the laptop, you are best off leaving 'as is',...

Bad news, if those components are toast, then they are impossible to fix without a circuit diagram to get the correct range of components and very very good, (exceptional) soldering skills - burn any of the components round about and it...

ASUS support is terrible here in the UK, and we even have a local rep to speak to... If you think getting an RMA as an end user is hard, try it when you are a reseller... ASUS EeePC 1015 where awful for having a faulty screen, and...

It improves all the time...! (and the upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10 worked this time)..

Well been messing around on my XP system testing the above theory out.. Unfortunately there is no entry in the registry for Msahci and the board I am using has two options in the BIOS for SATA - 'IDE' or 'RAID', so I will have too look...

At the moment I have no idea, but I will research it tomorrow with a fresh brain. I rarely use XP now, most of my machines are running win7 or Ubuntu (with the odd Mac OSX), but I will try it on my trusty old XP machine.. With XP, you...