Posts by OShadowFoxO

Okay, guide part three. This will be the finish: Now that you're looking at the motherboard in all its glory, you want to loosen the three screws in the following image and follow the directions on the image itself for removing the HSF...

Okay, and on to step 17 (as I labeled the images) Follow the guidelines in this next image. I CANNOT stress enough how important it is that you are VERY careful with this ribbon cable. Without it, you own a lump: Once you've...

Okay, here we go: A small walkthrough of disassembly for the DV9700. I'll warn you ahead of time, there's at least 35 images to show here, and there's a LOT of flipping of the unit in this process. Our victim: HP Pavilion DV9700t CTO....

Hey QHN, Thanks for the sticky! And I will go ahead and post the pictures then and create sort of a mini-guide to disassembly. I will edit the pictures to go through them and demonstrate what screws to remove in each picture. There...

Hello all, After some debate (and QHN mentioning it would of interest to see), I've decided to go ahead and create a thread for these machines and the upgrade information that I have for them in the hopes that it will help some people...

Ampoule, Yeah, it definitely sounds worth it, then. As far as machines go that and my DV9700 are pretty comparable, and really video aside I could live on it for another year or so probably. I popped 8 GB of DDR2 in it a few months ago,...

Hi Ampoule, You may very well notice the boost then, whether great or small, with some of that. Also, the big thing is you're talking for only $60. I paid $140 for mine and I consider it worthwhile going from a T7250 to a T9300, which...

Hello Ampoule, Assuming your motherboard supports the upgrade (which, given the fact that the C2D T9300 is apparantly OLDER than the PDC T4500, I would expect it will), it really comes down to what you're doing with the system as to...

Hey guys, After a few days of normal use, I don't notice it getting any cooler but I also haven't found a situation where it's really a concern either. Not enough that I want to disassemble the machine again at any rate. I'm now faced...

Hey guys, Quite a conundrum there... I've done some poking around but all I can find are either poorly rated (read: don't work) USB-to-Firewire cables or something akin to what QHN linked to initially. The only CAT5-FireWire things I...