Posts by Qutsemnie

This got solved. There is a port of a linux program for windows called hdparm. (google windows hdparm). The only nuance is that the port still refers to drives in linux terms so drive C is called "hda". But other than...

hmm sounds like something ive seen this before though some of your story isnt quite the same. You might have gotten malwared. There are things that can be deleted in windows (registry keys etc) that cause windows to "forget"...

Hi, anyone know of a command line program that will take control of a laptop harddrives spin down setting directly? Background: This was my problem and the fix: http://forum.notebookreview.com/show...clicking+noise But by my...

I saw my 1520 in 76 hours from order submit to door last week.

I have to say as an owner of the 1680x1050 w/ a 6800M GT and a gamer... Unless you are somehow pairing the 1920x1200 with one of the monster mobile graphics cards (way better than 6800M GT) than your actually kind of shooting yourself in...

So I bought a Dell 1520 with Vista Home. Price was about 1050 after -300 coupon. I got T7500, Nvidia 6800M GT, Vista Home edition, 120 GB 7200 RPM harddrive, the 1650 by 1050 screen, initially 1 gig memory but I simultaneously ordered...