Posts by Bobby Bucher

I'll have to play around with it and check it out. I've only been using it on net meeting.

Not at all, as long as you set it up under the advanced video settings right (ie brightness, contrast, color, screen placement and stretching...) I run movies to a 27" Sony and you can't tell that it is not the DVD player. I just...

Ya, I use an S-video switch box so that I can run my laptop/PS2/DVD/VCR all into one Svideo port on my television. Works fine and was only about 20 bucks for a manual switch that allowed 5 S-video and sound inputs.

Hmmm...I know you can adjust the gain on the mic somewhere. It must be that or the mic record level setting somewhere. Mine works fine, even with the fans on my wife can hear me on net meeting no matter where I am in the room (though...

Yes, the built in mic on a 5680 works great. My wife and I use netmeeting from Korea to the states to keep in touch while I am gone and the mic works very well. Just check your audio setting and advanced audio and recording settings to...

Under IPCONFIG I can see that the lease expires every 4 hours, manually renewing it works, but windows does not seem to be automatically renewing it. My IP # stays the same, and after contacting my ISP, their answer was, "I don't...

Help! I am on a cable connection, my IP must be renewed every 4 hours, but unless I open my command prompt and run IPCONFIG /RENEW to restart the clock I am disconnected. Is there anything I am missing to correct this, or is it just a...

I use an external 52x CDWR and an 80GB External HD with my 5680, both are USB 2.0 and do pretty well. I have been able to get write speeds of 40x from the HD to the writer, though I think it is the cheap media that corrupts everything...

Hello all! I made it back to Oklahoma (I'm on leave from Korea) and my Sager was waiting in the box. It is perfect!!! No dead pixels...those bananas did not die vain and shall always be remembered in honor. Some bananas of...

Dudes (and by dudes I mean both dudes and dudettes), I just got my tracking number for my 5680! I ordered mine directly from Sager on the 17th and it the tracking number says it left on the afternoon of the 20th and will arrive at...