Posts by anfprepboy

Sigh my babys now turning 2 and having some crazy heat problems. A couple of months ago I made a thread about how horrible my FPS in Company of Heroes and WoW was like 15 fps bad. Turns out my 6800 ultra was throttling due to the heat....

Quote: Originally Posted by GBmanNC First make sure its plugged in and not running on battery. Second, it could be that it is overheating and downclocking itself. Open up your laptop and take out the big clumps of dust...

So I've had this problem with WoW for awhile now I think. I quit a couple of months ago and now that Burning Crusade is out Blizz has reeled me back in. Anyways heres the problem. I've got an XPS2 with the 6800 ultra 1gig of ram and...

I got an xps2 with the 6800ultra and this game is KICKING my laptops ass with 1900x1200 and most settings at medium. Can anyone recommend the best settings? I really dont want to lose the 1900x1200 but at this pt. I'm guessing I'm...

So I play WoW on a wireless connection with the intel 2915 abg and a dlink 624 router. Except I'm getting disconnected 5x a day. I'm guessing the dlinks the culprit because a friend of mine was playing wired on our home computer and we...

Quote: Originally Posted by Doc.Caliban The best drivers for the 2200 are the ones that came with my Atheros 5005-based wireless adapter. Not a single signal loss since I started using them, whereas I had several drops...

oh I also forgot to mention that when i switch b/t WoW and the desktop too many times it will turn into a fuzzy static screen and causing me to reboot....but anyways is there a more pc-friendly mem tester out there? memtest requires...

So I loaded the latest 6800ultra drivers from dell and had no problems whatsoever the first week. Well about a few days ago I was playing World of Warcraft and when I exited I got a blue screen of death basically saying something went...

I'm trying to replace a badly scratched cover on my XPS2 and have so far removed the rim and lcd. Now what?! I'm lost. I need to know exactly how I take the cover off the hinges.....and please dont tell me that requires taking apart...

Quote: Originally Posted by ihabfan you mean the rim? i think you're looking at 400 bucks replace. OMG?! are u joking me?!! I'm talking about the silver "amp" area....how do you know? OMG I think...