Posts by dmb2000uk

so does pin modding

I was wondering; on ASUS notebooks they have jumper switches that control the FSB of the system. Do Dell motherboards have these jumpers too? Can someone check for me, because if they did that would be one really easy 'pin mod' DAn

Sorry, yonah will require a new chipset, although it uses the same number of pins as the current P-M, they've changed the pin layout and are calling it socket 480/481 (I forget!) The chipset has serveal major improvements over the...

This is probably going to be the best comparison you'll see here Im running a 3.2Ghz P4M with 512KB L2, FSB 533Mhz, 2GB RAM. On an intel 855gm/gme chipset. Ive used speedswitch XP to run it at 3.2Ghz all the time for the duration of...

I seem to remember someone telling me about pressing and holding shift while the computer is booting up/loading to the login screen. Have you tried that? Im guessing you disabled the guest account too? lol, you could always...

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topi...=19&l=en&s=dhs lol. Go on this page and click on the 'notebook arcade' section of the flash animation, then on the XPS M170. That looks like a 9300 to me that pops up

do you have all the XP 'eye candy' on or have you set the menu's to run under classic mode? To reduce the start menu to plain stuff i.e. that loads faster (if you havent already!) then go right click my computer --> properties -->...

Yeah, after i reformatted my hard drive i think i disabled it

what process does task manager say is using the 99% usage of your processor? I sometimes get this problem with the disk indexing service (I think its name starts with a C! Just ending that task was enough to return the proccesor usage...

you need a 130w adaptor. When flashing the BIOS it makes sure you are plugged into mains first. Plus you wuldnt be able to use the full graphics power of the card if its only running on battery.