Posts by gerryf

fwiw, no, it is not bootable that way. You could possibly take the new drive, put it in a second machine, format it with the old DOS command format /s to copy the dos system files, and also copy the windowsxp install files (the i386...

your computer was not a 5600 series, but I think it was the d700t from clevo parts are hard to come by laptopking.com and excelcomputerinc.com occasionally have parts for clevos, Your particularly problem sounds two-fold...motherboard...

having the stop error code would be most helpful

Gameing likely will take some time until drivers mature. Well, let's hope they mature. It sure makes one wonder that the gpu makers have been aware of Vista for a LONG time, and have yet to achieve descent performance. A lot of...

the buy sell forum on this forum is a good place to scrounge for parts, as is ebay Have you tried cleaning off the fans with a can of compressed air? Be careful cleaning these fans this way. Take a pin or paperclip and place it threw...

A big reason for the noisy fans in the desktop processor in the laptop--heat=death in a laptop. Today's more laptop friendly mobile CPUs are quieter than our old beasts (mine is newer than yours, a 5680). The a8jp is a fine...

I recently bought a new harddrive for my laptop after the old 60gb died...the difference between a 40 and 60 was something like $5, the difference between 60 and 80 was like $10, the difference between 80 and 100 was something like $20...

rule of thumb for anyone who wants to dual boot is always install the oldest OS first. Installing the newer then an older OS is much more difficult to get a working dual boot. In Vista's case, it uses a different boot record than...

Laptop only supports ata100--which is ata-5 Specs say it only supports 60gb, but that is likely because it is all that was available when it came out. There is no reason that it will not accept a drive up to 120gb (well, 137gb...

I am not certain this is the same issue as the other one...here he says his fans are working, the thread is a dead laptop that will not power up at all. One thing you can say about the 5680 is that as a desktop replacement running a...