Posts by fdbryant3

I have an old Sager 8790 laptop that I've converted for use as a Home Theater PC. Among the many quirks of doing this is that the laptop will stop outputting a signal through the DVI port if for any reason it stops detecting the TV....

You can download the drivers here http://64.208.175.44/pages/notebooks...oductType=8790

I had similar problems with drives failing - I want to say they were Hitachi or Toshiba drives (maybe one in the same actually)..............anyway, after the last one I replaced it with a Seagate drive and haven't had a problem since.

I've been having a problems while playing various games (primarily City of Heroes but others). Randomly the game freezes and goes blank and recovers (ie. it reboots - as indicated by the message that says the VPU has stopped responding...

Personally I don't worry about the recovery CD. Just download your drivers from HP, format, and install whatever version of Windows you have handy.

I recently had to replace the hard drive so I am re-building Windows. I find that I am having the same problems with the Omega and drivers from the ATI site. I tried using older versions which I know were working but still had the same...

Has anybody had any problems using two 2 PC Cards at the same time? I have a Sager 8886 running WindowsXP Professional. Whenever I put 2 PC Cards in the slots it crashes and reboots. This seems to be an IRQ conflict as both cards want...

I don't know what you've read so I can't comment upon it. I haven't seen any reasons not to. I do know that thus far my personal experience has been that I haven't had any problem blowing compressed air through the vents and that it...

I've had my Sager 8886 for a little be longer than you have, put it through more abuse (always on, play games, run the cpu 100% all the time) and have not had the problem that you have. I have had something that may be related. I use...

Well it probably depends. If you want to run the latest games with all the bells and whistles - you might not be able to with a decent framerate (note I say might). That said I play Command&Conquer: Generals and other recent games...