Posts by PeteC2

You may not visually see it, but that does not mean that the motherboard escaped undamaged. It does sound like a motherboard issue.

I believe that you will find that this is coming from the ac adapter itself.

Quote: Originally Posted by mooseye OK, thats pretty much what I figured. I was thinking that if 3200 would work, that it might be transferable to a newer laptop in the future. I guess it would be outdated by that time...

Quote: Originally Posted by mooseye Hello, I have tried searching with no resolve. I want to add memory to my laptop. It now has 1x2-512mb ddr sodimm 200pin pc2700. I want to make it 2g and would like to know if pc2700...

Quote: Originally Posted by mikey pizano Ah yes, the much loved Broadcom! Thanks, I will leave Vista on it! Once I got accustomed to Vista, I grew to like it just fine! I did not, and would not put it on an...

Quote: Originally Posted by [NFO]N0S that is obvious but i was replying to the post #6 where the mention of the hard drive being bad was first ever mentioned. the person was asking about what to do if their unit is...

Broadcom, B/G. I get pretty good range on mine.

Took me 2 normal DVD Rs, no biggie. There is some of the obligatory "crap-ware" but really not so much. MS Officce Home and Student (typical "trial" ware), an active version of MS Works, Vongo, trial version of...

If the hard drive self-test fails, then of course you may have a bad hard drive, in which case the first order of business may be getting the hard drive replaced. It sounds as though this is a recent notebook? If so, are you still...

Quote: Originally Posted by mikey pizano Hey thanks everyone. I will probably use CD-R since I have a ton of Sony ones. One question: If it fails to burn properly, will it give me another chance? Not 100% sure...