Posts by Snubber

Someone from PCtorque finally contacted me today and offered to refund my money (or give me a replacement - but that's what I had been told before, and then I stopped being able to contact anyone at the company, so I declined). The guy...

The 7260 is the model that has been discontinued. Unfortunately, this problem was never truly resolved. After my initial post here, someone from pctorque (Brian) did finally contact me to try to get a replacement for the discontinued...

Hey all, just wanted to say PC Torque got back to me and everything is being resolved. Turns out the manufacturer (Sager) discontinued a model, and this happened right around the time of the order, causing the confusion. In the...

Two weeks ago I placed an order on Pc Torque's website for a new laptop. I received an email confirmation and then needed to pay, which I did via PayPal eCheck. The eCheck cleared a week later, and since then, I have received NO...

This past weekend I had my 8886 on, connected to the AC adapter. I wasn't using it though, and a couple hours later it turned itself off. Curious, I looked at the adapter and noticed frayed wires coming out of the rubber connector...

update: so I think I got it back on its feet. It appears one of the 512 meg RAM modules is busted. I turned on the full mem check in BIOS, and it errored. Removing one of them got rid of the error. I was HOPING this would fix my...

My battery has been dead for a year or so. Won't last more than 5 minutes. But last week I needed to check my email quickly, so tried to boot on battery, and the computer shutdown while WinXP was loading. Ok, attach AC cord, start...

Mine battery also died after about a year. The sticker on the back of the battery compartment says it's an Lithium Ion 888 I believe. Now I can ONLY run it on AC. If I try to use the battery, I might have all of 2 minutes before it...

Hmm....The Burning software theory seems like a very good one. I'll look into that. Thanks to both of you!! - Ryan p.s. This thing works great in 3dsMax! It actually renders much better than my desktop workstation. woohoo!

A bummer. But understandable. Hopefully no new ones will appear.