Hmmm.. it sounds like you should be good to go. You definitely have USB2 support then, so that probably isn't the issue. Is there another comp you can try it out on?
shoeman, First, be sure to try hitting Funtion-F7 a couple of times to make sure that the card didn't get deactivated that way. If that does nothing, checking the card status is drop dead easy. Take the keyboard off by sliding the 2...
zac, If you are not getting satisfaction from Sager directly, try giving Laura @ pctorque a holler. She helped me through some early problems and is a truly good egg.
kp, you might try doing the Arctic Silver treatment as described in the forums. Somebody here actually had a heat sink that had no thermal pad *at all* between the heatsink and CPU. Not good. Anyway, you may want to look at the state of...
violet, I can tell you that in my case the antenna *was* definitely attached. I opened my 8890 up to look. Like I said, it seems to work better for some than for others. I'm sure you could tell this from the people who have chimed in...
There are various pieces of software that can help. My favorite is called Ultramon. It works beautifully with my 8890 and has some very handy features like being able to assign shortcuts to a particular display resolution, monitor, etc.....
I just did the normal Omega driver install. Very smooth. I did not choose any of the 3rd party tools (Radlinker, etc..). I use PowerStrip and I didn't want to have any extra stuff installed that might conflict.
Just FYI, the 8890s have a known problem when switching from one resolution to another. If a game/screensaver takes the LCD into 800x600 mode, for example, there will be extreme flickering of the LCD for several minutes after the...
