Posts by Quiquin

Quote: Originally Posted by T4sys Quiquin, it seems 80GB 5400 rpm suffers the same clicking problem too You know, I'm starting to regret keeping this laptop. My 21 days were up yesterday. If the 80 gb also...

I agree with Nemo. I don't know if it's just a few drives that do it or maybe most people use their computers in loud environments or while listening to music and they don't hear the clicking. I don't get it. I also think that the...

Quote: Originally Posted by T4sys in case anyone's interested in hard drives other than just LCDs... according to a XPS2 Tech Specialist I spoke with today, he said the same driver that was released back on 8/4/2004...

Quote: Originally Posted by Armchair Ninja Getting back to the original question, yes, you will most likely see a decrease in performance using two non-matched sticks of RAM. Wouldn't the performance decrease...

I have the Intel 2200 and I'm very happy with it. The connection is reliable and works everywhere in the house, including the basement. And it picks up a signal from 3 other neighbors.

ghostdunk, I ran the Dell diagnostics and the HD passed all tests. So Scan Disk and Dell diag. say it's good. Hitachi Fitness Test says there are problems and System Mechanic defrag function says there MIGHT be physical problems...

Well, it seems the corrupted sectors warning from the Hitachi diagnostics is correct. I was running System Mechanic's defrag utility and the operation was cancelled due to corrupted sectors in the drive. Anybody else is having this...

I don't know if it's the same noise you describe, but I get more of a whine than a hum. The thing is that I hear it when the display changes. i.e. when the contents of a window changes or when a new window opens.

On mine, the front ones don't make contact. Almost, but not quite. I also think that the latch itself is made of extremely light (cheap) plastic. I don't like the feel of it at all. It does work well, though.

dr150, thanks for the links. It seems this "problem" is very common and it has been ongoing for years with different Hitachi and IBM drives. Apparently, the only fix seems to be turning off the power-saving mode and/or making...