Posts by eludwig

ARW, Any chance I could get you to email the service manual to my address as well? It looks like my 8890's hard drive has gone belly up and I am gonna need to replace it.. as the OP said, all of the old links are dead....

You got me: It's age..... 46 yesterday!

8890 guys.. just a quick note. The 8890 likes SP2 just fine. I did it a while ago and have never looked back.. Come on, you know you want to... ...the kool-aid is juussst fine!... ;-)

Hmmm.. I am currently not having any issues with the new BIOS, but I haven't really been hammering my 8890 too hard since then. I did run the ATI pipe dream demo and played 2 or 3 minutes of Max Payne 2 and all seemed sweet. DVD...

zach, A boot floppy created by WinXP contains and loads an extended memory manager called himem.sys (at least that's what I believe it is). The BIOS flash utility doesn't like extended memory managers and will refuse to run if one is...

zach, Download the one that I linked to. The floppy it writes is correctly configured. A normal boot disk made by WinXP won't work with the flash utility.

All, Richard was kind enough to send me the new BIOS.. I will host it here for a few days.. http://scorpionsoftware.com/sager/8890_v10_BIOS.exe Enjoy! UPDATE: This solves the overlay bug on my 8890. I am using the 2.5.90...

violet, The goop is non-conductive, so that should not be an immediate short type of problem. If there was a whole ton of it extra it could possibley leak into an area where it shouldn't be, I suppose. Depends on how much there was that...

A very quick google search turned up this, from The heatsink guide Quote: How should I use heat sink grease? You should apply a very thin (paper thin) layer on the heatsink with your finger before installing it. Don't...

Violet, Just FYI: Using anything other than your finger to do it is unnecessary and may create an uneven coating. The way I do this is to squeeze a little blob onto the center of the processor. The blob should be no bigger than a grain...