Posts by Doggonit

ooops you are right.... Volts = Potential Difference..... whatever... conclusion is still that power consumption is measured in watts /me bashes self over head with a sledgehammer.... me be retarded now... FOR GOOD!

Quote: Originally Posted by mayaman2 Wow! faster and better on the battery! Umm.... current (volts) being used does NOT indicate POWER CONSUMPTION (watts)!!! DDR2 is notoriously power hungry, which is why the...

I dont understand how it could be my PSU? You mean the power brick or the part in the laptop? (powerbrick < internals as far as cost of replacement goes...) Anyway, would running a 6 year old videogame require that much extra power...

But... listen up... I have been using Win 2000 Pro for playing these very same games for more than a year now! I NEVER had problems! I love the stability and class of W2K, XP is a bloated piece of malfunction crashware that I doubt will...

It all started when I came back from my 3 week vacation and took the laptop of its bag where I had stored it so that I wouldnt gather dust or be exposed to heat, etc. It started up fine, but the fans made that anyoning screeching sound...

I still feel that this could be a software problem. Can you recommend anything? Should I call Sager?

No.... it failed... I deleted the array but it still only found one hard drive even after multiple reboots. This is really not looking good. Once I get a new hard drive, I will create a RAID 1 array... I can't lose this stuff again. I...

I dont know what that fool actuary wants, but to all you guys who offered help I offer my thanks, I will try to delete the array and recreate it without formating... I hope that will work. I guess its time to buy that 120GB external...

Bad? How could it have died? I have never ever personally heard of anyone's hard drives dying. I have heard my share of hardware complaints from a lot of folks I know but never about a dead hard drive. It seems like a very rare thing....

BTW, it is an 8890 of course... two 60GB 7200rpm drives... one disk is present in the disk utility thing the other seems to be missing with just some question marks. The utility program knows that there are two drives there but it can...