Posts by gerryf

There is a part that switches between the battery and the ac current. It sounds like yours is malfunctioning. Usually, this fails completely but yours seems to be partially working. It is usually on the motherboard and requires a...

The foil was just part of the packaging for the heatsink compound...I haven't seen that for a while, but it makes it easier for companies to assemble PCs quicker. You do not need the foil when applying AS5

disk corruption? boot into safemode with command line if possible and run chkdsk /f <enter>

well, this is a bit late, but your heatsink compound should not glue your heatsink to CPU....if so, there was probably too much heatsink compound or bad heatsink compound was used It should not be thermal glue--which is a different...

Well, you call them what you wish, as long as you know what you're talking about. Typically, the heatsink is the metal (copper or aluminum usually) component that sits atop the CPU. A fan pulls heat off the heatsink and exhausts it out...

Honestly don't know. It probably wouldn't hurt since now is when many of those cmos batteries are probably dying. It seemed in my case the heatsink partially covered a screw that needed to be removed--but then again, I tend to remove...

If the 5620 is like the 5680 (and I think it is), you need to remove the battery (main one), then bay one device, then the hard disk assembly, then the bay two device (if you have one), then the keyboard, then the CPU (and heatsink),...

Yes, this is the buggiest laptop when it comes to memory I have ever seen. Went through the same thing as you--perfectly good memory, the laptop just wouldn't take it. First, is it 2.5 volt ram? Most memory out there is 2.6 volt...

you have a 5760 and are getting a new 5670 (that they haven't made for several years?) Typo? I will give a qualified maybe to that one either way NMS has the right idea--clone the drive from the 5760 to the new laptop, but...

the quick answer is yes, the long answer is you probably will not achieve better results. The technology is called HomePNA or HPNA, but the max speed limit is 10mbps,,,you need two adapters--one by the modem, one for your PC. The...