Posts by mich43L

Ebay typically sells things like this very overpriced. 350 costs about $15 on spare parts. I don't know how they do things in canada though.

Yeah, Spiike's site got dug: http://digg.com/mods/Step_by_step_on_painting_a_laptop

BIOS manufacturers often provide a backdoor master password. I remember using it when I forgot a password for my older desktop. It was a phoenix bios. Various sites list master passwords. Try "DELL" if you have a dell BIOS.

$90

whoa, nice buns

Hibernate's mine. I like how I can quickly boot up from hibernate and do a complete shutdown. However, the pc does get sluggish if you keep on hibernating without a full restart once in a while.

Quote: Originally Posted by mZimm So its definitely cheaper to do it during the first 21 days from invoice. Anybody know what it is inside that first 21 days, but after the item is delivered? I don't think...

Clean the back of the heat sink by either taking the whole thermal assembly out or spraying, in short bursts, canned air into the vent unit - this should push the accumulated dust out the fan intake. Your crashes/shutdowns, which are due...

No. That's not part of the exchange policy. You can only exchange for the same model (if something is wrong or can't be fixed). The only exception is if the older model reaches end of line and they don't have anymore in stock.

I recently inquired about the price of extending my 1-year warranty which is about to expire. They told me something like: $125 for an extra year, 225 for 2 years and 300 (after rebate) for three years. These are all for at home service...