Posts by Dib

It doesn't help anything. I wish somebody here had suggestions, because I'm running out of ideas. I reinstalled Oblivion the other day because I'm out of town again for this next month, only to find that I can't even make it out of...

Unfortunately, nothing there seems worthwhile. The latest 7700 BIOS says v1.00.04 which would evidently make it earlier than mine. Right now I'm working on another video card lead. I remembered reading about a problem with video...

Does it have an aluminum shell around the video card? Removing it off my 6800 ran at a lower temperature. I forget the exact numbers but it was pretty significant.

One thing that would be helpful: is there anything around here detailing what sort of BIOS updates were made available? I copied down the info off the boot screen real quick BIOS revision: v146 1.00.12 KBC/EC Firmware rev:...

Haha, real men don't use system restore points! We take whatever comes, then chew it up and spit it back. Let's just say that if I take off for another month, I'll be bringing a Win7 installation disk with me should it degrade again...

Duct tape? Come on, it does everything. I would have to see pics to really know where you're at, but generally if the heat sync doesn't have holes in the right places you may solve this by drilling new ones. Be certain to use a...

Sorry about the ambiguous description, because I wasn't initially certain what was going on. The screen suddenly goes black, and maybe that first couple times I had been able to get the laptop to respond to something like hitting the...

The Realtek driver off the Alienware site here http://support.alienware.com/Support...anu=8&item=831 works for me. I just reinstalled Windows 7 the other day and used that driver.

I was planning to upload and repost if it ever went dead, but I'll do both.

Notebook Hardware Control didn't work very well for me, it was buggy in frequently reporting SMART errors that don't exist and doesn't monitor any temperatures very well beyond the CPU (like the GPU and memory). I just found a working...