Posts by PeteC2

Quote: Originally Posted by ags150 Hello. Basically, yes. I disabled SATA native support but have not located drivers so far, as laptop works OK and I find MS website a nightmare to locate anything - often lose the will...

I agree with dr/owned on all counts: Although on the surface they are "similar" models, yes, the drivers will be different. At the same time, the new notebook you are looking at appears a good replacement, and although...

Quote: Originally Posted by dr/owned Completely unrelated, but someone above mentioned slide-rules. I tried using one and to me it seemed more "magical" in getting an answer than using a...

Quote: Originally Posted by [NFO]N0S Here is a small tip. I recommend getting 2 x 1gb sticks of ram. In the future you are going to want/need to upgrade again. No need in wasting money in buying two smaller sticks if you...

Quote: Originally Posted by CJ-22 Yes it has happened elsewhere. Three of the five times I sent it to HP they said they were able to duplicate the problem. I'm sure that is the only reason they gave me a new one. I have...

I would opt for the 2 x 512mb as well, as it lets you run in dual channel mode. Crucial is generally a safe/good choice, also, I have had good luck with kingston, which you can usually get a good price on. At any rate, I would stick...

Well, the service manual does show that 120gb is the highest HD capacity, but I am not so sure as sometimes that represents what is available at the time that the manual was printed. At any rate, you should be able to nab a 120gb sata...

Well, I guess nothing is "impossible", but this does not sound like a hardware issue at this point. Different computers, different hardware, HP could not replicate the issues. SOMETHING is causing those programs to open and...

hipertec, if you have not tried it yet, I highly recommend qhn's solution. It is very easy to adjust the font size...I particularly recommend setting a "custom" size, somewhere in between the automatic bump-up, as to me, that...

Light enough to be really portable, but "big" enough to be a real full-use machine...I like it!