Posts by flw

I saw a commericial for IBM and one of the points was that the laptop had metal reinforced hinges. I know hinge problems seem to be too common for what we pay for them. So my question is are there any low end (but new) laptops...

My question is what is there to gain after you've already altered the standard settings beyond the typical changes, any ohters will only be at best increamental increases that you may never realize the benifit of and end up with a less...

Seems everyone loves to laught at the celeron line of processors. At first they had a major design flaw that was corrected within 6 to 12 month. My Celeron runs Windows 2003 Enterprise edtion, I've also dual booted it with several...

Some web burning to too generic to anyone to answer. If you don't have it yet, see if you can upgrade the battery now as it will cost you less than buying 10 or more cell battery later.

I have no idea as to intel making a moble editioin but I'm concerned due to a issue since the P60's- Heat. Dual core is SNP on one chip which leaves little room for natural heat disapation via fan(s). Being the a loptop runs like a...

Do you still have the issue if you shutdown via cmd? Click on "Start" then "Run" then type "shutdown -f " and press enter.

Quote: Originally Posted by hlloyd1231 i got to the cmos battery a pulled it out how long does it have to stay out of the computer? is there a way to drain it faster? someone told me to find a j7b1 jumper block and...

I must have read too many post today because I noticed a side thread in a post that mentioned that all Gateway and Emachine laptops are made by one company now. What is the company and how far back in time (generally) does this...

My Gateway 400 w/6 cell using the "recalibrate" option within the bios got me no real gain in battery time. I've run it 2x within 2 weeks with the battery already at 100% on AC power. As you mentioned having the screen,...

My only emachine is a PC, Emonster with a PIII 500 Mhz. I bought it a while back (several years or more) and during the first year sent it back 3 times waiting 5 to 12 weeks each cycle. Between the poor phone tech service during that...