Posts by dr/owned

Did you try going into the BIOS to make sure it's set to boot from the hdd first? Always gotta start with the obvious

Well, it's likely either the power circuitry on the mobo has gone bad or the contacts on the battery are bad. Make sure the gold colored contacts on the laptop are clean of dirt. If it's under warranty, try getting HP to send you a new...

Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious, but did you try Fn + F8 to try to increase the brightness of your screen?

You have to install the proper video drivers. The out-of-the-box ones for mobile cards in XP are low-res 1024 max.

It doesn't matter whether you're running Vista or XP, to use the full 4 gb of RAM you have to have a 64-bit version. With 32-bit the OS will *only* (sarcasm) see 3.5 gb or so. Getting drivers for XP is challenging, but no where near...

So did you order your laptop yet?

Yes, you are correct. Vendors do tend to put "medium" gfx cards in 15.4" models because they (correctly) figure that most users who want extra horsepower also want a bigger screen to go with it (for gaming, cad work,...

I have had no problems with HP whatsoever....so I'd say that no there isn't any reason to have an obsessive loathing of HP's. Acer's and Gateways I don't trust. For me Toshiba is a gray zone but I've heard largely good things about...

I think from your two options, the Toshiba would be better. The dell is just overcharging for a slightly faster (and unneeded) cpu. To put it short, those specs aren't worth $1000. But, even at that $800 for a laptop with those specs...

That's a very open ended question to ask. Probably every brand will have some model from 2-3 years ago that was "the best" at the time. If we're talking a 2-3 year old computer, you could probably buy the best gaming laptop...