Posts by yellowperil

seriously this is a real forehead smacker. jeez take a look at the keyboard...

Quote: Originally Posted by Martian Those aren't actually thermal pads. They are just padding. As stated earlier in this thread there is about a .25" gap between the RAM chips and the heatsink. I'm sure it's...

Quote: Originally Posted by Martian On the i9300 there is no heatsinks for the RAM chips so adding AS5 or any other thermal compound to the RAM chips will do absolutly no good. In fact it might actually make things...

yeah i feel the same way flip. I just got done applying it to the cpu, and was able to shave a couple of degress off that temp. now i just have to get a torx screwdriver and break it open again. so for the ram, you just reuse the thermal...

when you apply as5 to the processor, do you just apply it to just the gpu or the ram too? does the ram get hot enough for it to matter?

Well, I have stumbled accross something which could possibly be the signalling mechanism. It is the Simple Boot Flag Specification. It is described here by microsoft. I am investigating this currently.

Quote: Originally Posted by odious_m http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=87097 yes I found this through api monitor, but it useless for detecting the actual media boot outside of windows.

So there is no interest in this project then?

Hey guys, I have been wondering and investigating the Dell Media Direct Feature for a while now. What I want to do is figure out how to detect when a media boot has happened and possibly program a bootloader like grub to detect this...

DDR1, the ultra in the xps2 had DDR3