Posts by Mr T

I will try and do that when I am back off holiday... Same as with the Gateway that runs puppy fine, but fails on video for every other operating system... (I must admit I was very happy that it works and didn't think...!!!!)

Got it working with a reflow job, a UK 2p piece as the heatsink with a reformed laptop hard drive cage on top of that... All OK so far....

Thats one idea, but it is attaching it securely that is the issue....

Well stripped it down today... Guess what, someone had beaten me to it and done it in the past and it was missing the metal plate on the bottom (emission shield) which probably doubles as a heatsink for the ATI card... I will get the...

Do a full windows update and try another USB device (not an IPhone)... Those laptops, if I remember correctly have an issue with cheap USB ports that break easily (push apart) - so worth checking for physical damage...

10Gb is a lot, as qhn said leave it up to the OS... You can alter it anyway using Gparted (partition editor)....

Just got hold of an old G3 with the 32mb ATI graphics chip and the 800Mhz CPU... Just installed OSX 10.4.7 and all is good to go..... However, got a load of artefacts and the dreaded black screen at start up.... Turns out if I keep it...

Download and run Crap Cleaner. you can get it from filehippo....

No, it won't make much difference. Vista 32bit is like ALL 32bit operating systems and won't see or utilise RAM over about 3.5Gb. The graphics card on that lappie is a pretty basic one and is the probable cause of the game lag. But there...

The best is the ipad so far... Simple reason is the IOS beats android hands down... The closest android ones to an ipad is the Samsung galaxy or the Eee Pad transformer - Android lets them down, esp if you have used an ipad.. Yet to try...