Posts by Firus

Haha, ya that's what I figured, I wonder what is happening to mine...it's weird.

I was just wondering if any of you guys can let me know what kind of life you are getting out of your CMOS battery. I replaced mine just a few months ago and now...I think it is happening again, just this morning I lost my...

Cool, thanks for the input guys, much appreciated...

Hi guys, All I have right now in my 5680 (D500p) is a CD-Rom, I went cheap because I have an external drive. However, lately the inernal one just sucks! It's gotten to the point where it can barely read cd's. Normally this is not...

Quote: Originally Posted by G-Omaha I'll answer with a similiar question. Does you car engine get warm when the car idles? LoL, nice. I figured as much. But really that is a good analogy, thanks for a...

I realize this. So I'm assuming the CPU still rises in temp on idle then?

Hello everyone. I am running mobile meter on my notebook. I did the artic silver mod and it turned out great, temps are lower while under load and the fan does not have to work as hard to keep them down. the one thing i did...

Mepis is awesome...very minimal install and a super great package manager to get anything you could possibly want afterwards. It even deals with dependancies

try running "alsaconf" as root. My sound didn't work at all and then mixer would lock up when I tried to use it. After I ran alsaconf and rebooted sound magically started working...not very technical advice, but somehow it...

reeaally? The service manual is for the D500p and up (d520p, d530p etc) Do the specs for processors in there apply to all models?