Posts by Cosmic Gecko

Compressed air won't do it. If anything, he's lucking out by reseating the card and maybe the compressed air is causing enough flex in the card to get the two ends of a cracked solder joint to connect. If you're out of options, and...

No way that's a bad Windows install -- from the screenshots, the problem manifests itself on the BIOS POST screen, where no Windows code (or any code loaded from disk) has been loaded. Try reseating the graphics card -- if you're really...

Geez, I swear saw a handful of them up on Ebay just a few days ago. You might want to set up an Ebay Search for "D900T 6800" (or something like that) and set it up for email notifications.

I feel your pain, rkingmda.. that's why I've recently begun accumulating "donor boards" and other spare parts for my '7700 notebook, too. A month ago, I had to send my trusty notebook to the repair depot for a new...

Odd that the RAM died so suddenly. You might want to double-check the cooling fan on your memory cover panel to make sure it's not clogged up or otherwise prevented from spinning.

You might be able to swap the fried chip with an identical chip from a cheap donor card (say, a no-name brand card for PC desktops), if you're looking to repair a fried card. Maybe. Doing that would take some serious equipment to...

7700s can't run Core 2 Duo, as that's a limitation of the 915P chipset on the motherboards, rather than the voltage regulator itself. Typically, you'd need a 6.1 motherboard to run the 7900gtx video cards, as they revised it to supply...

Are you making an offer to sell parts or post the guy's contact information, or are you just bragging?

Just gotta chime in and say that my Area51 M7700 also exhibits the same problems as described in #13. I'm as frustrated as everyone else about this, because my notebook will actually work fine if I let it warm up for 20 minutes. (Most...

There's no built-in xD port, but there is a SmartMedia port. (Same electrical signals, just a different packaging). I use an xD to SmartMedia adapter for my '7700, and I've had no problems with 256MB and 512MB xD cards in this way.