Posts by richk

Not possible. Laptops are not like desktops. Video cards cannot be swapped except for a few specific cases.

The 16MB card, I assume, is the one from the 5005. That one has a different chip and will not work.

I have no direst experience with your model, but usually with laptops, you can not go any faster than the fastest CPU that your combination of motherboard and BIOS supports. I think there are no faster 5205 models except the S705 and...

I don't think 50 is hot enough to stop.

I am not familiar with that pattern, but I though the 8-beep things related to video card problems.

I now know how to do it.

Thanks g00nter, but I think anything you can try with the parallel dongle won't help. I need some way to get the machine to prompt for a PW before windows. I have been playing with a stand-alone bios flashing process that is built into...

I tried to clear a supervisor password (no user password set) on a 5105 laptop that has only a windows interface to the BIOS. There is a supervisor password set that restricts access to BIOS hardware settings. The USB key is expecting...

I am running it without problems on a 5105

That's why god invented the warranty