Posts by CindySue22

Yes, welcome to Sager reliability. I have a 9860 unable to do what it was designed for because of this heat issue. And the idea of an end user having to reapply heatsink compound (and even then the problem may not be solved) is...

Quote: Originally Posted by joshuacrime This is really frustrating when I can't play games when I travel. It's only useful now for watching movies and surfing the net, and I don't need a $3k speed machine to do that...

Go to CC or BB, and just look. The last time I bought a wireless mouse for my 9860, I got an MX 1000, and it of course ended up being more stuff (the reciever) to carry around than a wired mouse. Now they have recievers that are the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Charles@PCTorque Since it has been a while since we heard from the orginal poster i'm going to assume two things. Since she stated that her laptop USED to run everything...I think that...

Quote: Originally Posted by bigtrouble77 Couple of things... Have you reformatted since you first got the machine? If not, chances are that spyware running in the background are using your cpu cycles, causing things...

Really quite sad, and I've gone from recommending Sagers to anyone I met, to going out of my way to steer them somewhere else. For the number of hours I've put on this machine, (I've had it around 2 years, but it has only been on,...

Quote: Originally Posted by Argh why do you guys bother with this when you can simply press fn + f2 to toggle the fans? Well, I have one of the first 9860's (old mobo and bios), and fn+f2 doesn't do a thing,...

*bump* because I am trying to use this, but having some problems (9860) If I set the fan off temp to 35, I immediately get alarms going off, is this normal? Temp does not seem to fall, just the alarms come on (this is at 60 degrees,...

Hmm, well I just did the "tip on side" test, and the temps did not rise this time, so maybe I did a bit of good with the re-application of AS5. My fans don't come on at all until Mobometer reports 60 Celsius, so I guess...

Quote: Originally Posted by BombBuster One more thought; how much air flow do you have under the bottom? Also, how cool is the ambient air? Airflow under is just what is provided by the stock...