Posts by bowmah

Hey Triple D+a, I don't trust my memory either. At the end of the day, I should be happy not having to deal with the HDD limiting issue associated with non SP2 patches. Hey, how is your 7200 rpm working out? (from your sig). I am...

Thanks for the clarification. I am thinking I must have not remembered well. Unless the recovery process is not like a typical format/install? OR can it be that the orignal notebook with XP Home only (as I remmeber going to update...

Just dug deeper into intel's site. Sure enough the 532 is there and it supports HT. What a cool video tutorials for FSB, HT, Core Duo etc... on how hardware works in terms of speed. Check out the video here, click on How it works (top...

I don't need to do that as the recovery process worked. Are you suggesting this course of action to test if SP2 sticks?

Hmm, never tried pressing the power button except to hard reset the mcahine. What happens when you press it in the log on screen?

Quote: Originally Posted by mongoose Wow I did not know they did not have a no replacement policy. Funny thing is maybe its different if bought from them directly. because they are replacing another P100 for me. Again...

Before I made a system recovery, Windows XP Home (SP2) used to shut down at normla speeds. After the recovery, I noticed that during the desktop shut down, it will go realtively smoothly. When it reaches the Windows log in screen, it...

In the recovery process, I thought the notebook would do a "reformat" and bring the harddrive back to it's original purchased state. I ran through this and was surprised to see XP Home (SP2) loaded after the recovery. I could...

Thanks for the reply TV. That is the weird part. I see 2 graphs but based on info from Intel's site, some P4 chips do not support HT (whcih was news to me, thought all P4 chips supported HT) and I could not locate the one that I have on...

When I purchased the Toshiba P30-RG1, Toshiba's website indicated this as the CPU spec: - Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 532 supporting Hyper-Threading Technology (3.06 GHz, 533MHz FSB, L1 Cache 12KB/8KB, L2 Cache 1MB) Happen...