Posts by uncleho

Can anyone explain to me my particular problem (random shutdowns)? I've read as many 9860 threads as I could find and none some to match my problem. What DOES NOT happen: > Overheating (as far as I know). The fans are all full...

Quote: Originally Posted by giannis if you still want it i can email it to you Can I get an email of this GETTHERMAL? I've had mine since ~2004 and for the last ~few months I've noticed the random...

No crack. No games. Just Office, McAfee, CAD (UG). Actually this issue is dead now since they replaced it with another unit. Unfortunately the replacement unit just doesn't want to boot up. Eversince the 2nd boot (seriously!) I can...

This is my second 9860S, because the first was returned due to other issues. I've only turned the PC on (tried to) about 6 times since I got the exchange unit back. The first time was uneventful, BUT each time after... it takes...

I got the replacement unit last week and besides some confusion over the BT/WLAN combo, I haven't been able to really exercise it. I've spent the week trying to reinstall software and data. Had some quirks with Outlook, but no fault...

What do you mean WOW? I looked all over hell's half acre to find cheaper... 9860S and DL was the cheapest. The dang thing starts at ~$2800. Throw in (2) 60G HDDs, 1650x1050 display, 2G Ram, 3.6G Pent4, NVIDIA Quadro 256Mb card and you...

Quote: Originally Posted by wheatman IMHO, this a gamers laptop. Gamers love to tweak and push their PCs to the limit to get that extra FPS so they can kill vs being killed. If you really only wanted to do CAD and...

Had my 9860S for about two weeks before I got this blue screen at reboot (after POST). It mentions that it thinks the C and/or D drives are not consistent. It does a checkdisk and seems to find nothing, but now after EVERY reboot I...

Pardon my lack of PC intellect, but can someone explain to my how I lost function of my WIFI adapter? It took little input when I first got the 9860 to connect to my home WIFI network router. Recently I started seeing Blue Screen...