Posts by BGraceTFaith

I would highly advise against using those programs. If you take a short second to note where the vents are for the system you will realize that leaving it on while it is closed is quite possibly the best way to turn your notebook into a...

I've had mine for two years. Upgraded the processor to a 2.0 Dothan this past November and chucked 1gb of RAM in it about a month before that. As you can see from the sig, I've done a few mods to it. Only real issue has been the stock...

Ok, its showing 0% wear. What does that mean?

Ok, as you can see from my sig, I've had my system for about 2 years now. Well recently my battery has started only lasting about 90 minutes on average. The strange part is that less than 6 months ago I was taking it to work with me and...

Well, I ran scandisk and that didnt find anything. I have yet to run chkdsk. I was backing up a few folders last night and it kept getting "cyclic redundancy errors" whenever the drive would make that weird noise.

YaY!

I'm positive. I've never noticed this sound in the 2 years I've used this laptop. The system has never hung while seeking like that either.

Ok, recently (1-2 months) my system has begun to hang periodically and the hard drive will make a skipping sound similar to that of the DVD drive when reading a bad sector (sounds like: ssss sk sk sk sk, ssss sk sk sk sk). A couple...

C'mon guys. You're all assuming I rushed into this. I tested things thoroughly. Not only did I let Prime95 run in Torture Test mode under Large TFT's, but I looped an mp3 and avi simultaneously in two separate programs. I let it run...

Any 3D intensive game. WoW, UT2004, AA, CS, and Ragnarok Online are the only games I have on my system. The only one that it doesnt crash while playing is Ragnarok. However, I haven't played Ragnarok in months, so its possible it may...