Posts by Kninetik

I was hoping someone manufactured a cable converter just as they do for allowing laptop drives to be converted into IDE for normal use. Curse the laptop makers!!!

Is it possible to convert that thing into VGA and use it with my desktop? My 8600 died and I want to recycle some parts, namely the monitor. It uses some wierd connection to the laptop mobo, and I need information on how to get a...

ah crap, I do have a way to link the game console to the laptop via the (not really sure if its the correct object but for the 8600, the plug is on the rear right) S-video jack and a thing allowing the video cable to be properly hooked...

I want to connect my Xbox so I can play it on my laptop. Is there any way I can make this work?

1.I own a 1.7Ghz 8600. 2. My apartmentmate owns a 1.6Ghz 8600 3. and my other apartmentmate owns a 1.4Ghz 600M 1.7 temperature at idle: 43 - 50 Celsius 1.6 temperature at idle: 38 - 42 C 1.4 temperature at idle: 32 - 37...

My roomate and I have nearly the same laptops, Inspiron 8600. Difference being he paid about 400 less for a refurbished one. I expected his screen to be filled with dead pixels and all those joys but it came in pristine condition; his...

Well crap, I just found out the sales representative never gave me the 3years warranty as requested over the phone. Ah well, its about time I upgraded to something else. Im figuring my mobo died so I might as well upgrade that and the...

My computer broke down a month ago, and I plan to rebuild it. I salvaged some PC800 RDRAM off my alienware but plan to upgrade to a new motherboard. However I am unsure if my ram is compatable with new motherboards since this is the...

I had my area 51 for a year now. During college I usually had it on for days at a time only powering down because something crashed or whatnot. However during the last 2 months, I had trouble powering up the system. It would not boot up...

My GPU is actually the coolest of the components. However, RAM heats up to 85 degree celcius while everything else reaches only 55 at most. Im not sure if its supposed to rise in temperature like that or not but the Dell is still...