Posts by DarthAcer

Check http://www.station-drivers.com/page/realtek.htm The audio device is most likely an ATI HDMI Audio (at the bottom of the page, should support 32-bit, although is listed as 64-bit there).

Quote: Originally Posted by Wiz33 A bit of an overkill since you you won't see all 4GB of RAM on Vista home. The ATI GPU despite having 1GB of RAM won't be much faster than the 9500GS. The 500GB hd is nice but only if...

Easy: http://ati.amd.com/online/mobilecatalyst/ This will start download of the latest Catalyst Mobility.

Had Vista Home Premium on a new laptop (not in my sig yet). With XP I always set GUI to look like Win 2000 and tweak it a bit. I quickly turned off UAC in Vista - that made it bearable. But I could not make file explorer into...

Usually it's some background application/service (have you installed something new lately?) or USB device (whether it is the fact that both USB and Realtek drivers are CPU-bound or something else, I don't know, but that's a typical...

Look here. Select one for Travelmate 2300_4000_4500.

Perfect picture! I can now see that it is definitely mini-PCI, no doubt at all.

Interesting. Allow me some speculation. It might be PCI-E x16 for a model with nVidia card in MXM module. They'd just create a unified motherboard layout and not use that slot when graphics is not nVidia. Why am I suggesting it? ...

There is a review of M50Sa-AK002C here. It looks pretty much the same model. A bit faster in 3D than M50Sv models with nVidia, higher screen resolution but less bright, larger HD and more RAM (albeit the latter may or may not be an...

The standard battery in it is 6-cell 4800 mAh, good for about 2 hours 10 minutes at best. You can get 9-cell 7800 mAh (as far as I remember) battery for it. That will get you closer to 3 hours but not there yet. Also, the battery...