Posts by iowapilot

Sorry about never getting back to you on the pics. The above poster pretty much said it all. It's not a hard job, just time consuming in a major way. Luckily, I got the tension right the first time. Extemely lucky there.

I use the latest cats, but you have to make sure your bios is the latest version. Otherwise everything will come to a screeching halt during video processing, even in 2D.

Hmmm, I might be interested. How is the padding? I'm a little concerned about bumpage and/or breakage carrying around a 10lb notebook.

Yeah, I thought about that after asking my question. I'm sure there is one out there that will load up on boot and resume a saved profile after every restart.

Anyone have a modded bios for the 5690 that allows overclocking? I opened up my 5690 last night, and when I looked at the back of the chip I realized it is a 3.2C 30 capper. I put it in my desktop last night to start working on a nice...

Got my cover today. Not very impressed with the color it is, so now I have more motivation to start a painting project. I probably won't be able to provide those pictures for a couple of days at least. I can tell you it isn't hard. Get...

I received the top cover for my 5690 today and didn't see any of the items mentioned above. I got the cover which had the tin shield and that's it.

overheating is probably a good guess, but only you will know by eliminating everything else. Rarely will you see a component (vid card, cpu) run slower than it should just because it's old. As a normal rule, either a component works or...

No problem, cronn. I will take some pictures as soon as my top cover gets here. I was too impatient waiting on it and tore down my 5690 to see what the deal was. It's really simple (not taking the laptop apart, what a pain in the ass...

Quote: Originally Posted by 7toy9 gator09, you are always sending PM's!!! What are you saying to all these sellers? I am dying to know! He is asking the sellers to not ship their notebooks out with cracked...