Posts by Larry-in-Eastba

Quote: Originally Posted by nyako Larry, your best bet is to just buy an internal drive that's meant to be installed in a notebook. External drives are ambiguous on their specs and tend to be more expensive, not...

The consensus from GOD GOOGLE is that this is an ordinary Notebook drive with the following specs -250GB -8 MB cache -SATA (shoot!, I wanted a PATA) -5400 Good candidate for upgrading someone with a SATA machine as even bestbuy...

Quote: Originally Posted by Djembe 1. PATA & SATA are interface descriptors. The Passport drives have a USB2 interface, so they're neither. 2. according to Newegg, they're 5400RPM edit: just so you know,...

Hi everyone I saw at costco some western digital passport hard drives. These are the 2.5" USB type and come as 160GB or 250GB. My question. Anyone know if these drives, or the passport 160GB/250GB 2.5" drives in...

Quote: Originally Posted by rubberman i have an HP (pavilion ze4610) and bought a battery off ebay. it wont boot and will shut off at the same exact spot. Battery shows 72% charge. the laptop shows charge but will not...

Quote: Originally Posted by H@lub i'm the same with Dell D820 Huh? Buzzing, I don't hear no stinking buzzing? The Compal made Compaq NX7000/7010, X1000, HP ZT3000 experienced a similar defect known as...

Quote: Originally Posted by Szadek Kinda interesting that you are saying the warranty doesn't cover this. Where I work, if we cannot remove the power on password, we have to replace the system board (sysbd for short)...

Quote: Originally Posted by aggs23 Is it just me or have gas prices nearly tripled since we went to Iraq? I love when people try and say this... Never said it was successful, now did I? War is kind of...

Quote: Originally Posted by Szadek You have to remove the CMOS (RTC) battery and unplug the regular battery and AC. Where I work, we use a small flathead screwdriver for around 30-60 seconds, then plug in the AC first,...

Quote: Originally Posted by Szadek Well, needless to say you've voided any warranty you may have had. On the other hand, hopefully you used proper ESD precautions/equipment. Also, it seems you may have went overboard...