Posts by Dib

Except my warranty ended sometime ago. But yeah, it's pretty much black except it keeps restarting in a cycle but never gets anywhere. When it booted, it said "No device is found!" and "BIOS is not installed.",...

Apparently not so much. It happened again today, but again fixed itself. I'm concerned it's symptomatic of an emerging problem. Is there any way to check the health of various system components prior to them up and dying? I'm chiefly...

Nevermind, those magical elves came through once again. I will leave the obligatory Oreo cookies and mint leaves under the window tonight, as per the treaty between our races.

Pretty standard story with modern computers: woke up this morning; turned on computer (actually the computer was on, I merely had to shut it off for all of ten minutes); attempted to start it back up and it's stuck in some sort of...

Yeah I figured they'd be hiding under those, I just really hate the idea of dissecting that portion because I know it's going to be fragile. It sounds like you've done it before, so if it's possible I suppose I'll fumble my way through...

Well I finally found out what caused this, the tiny screws they use to weight the entire screen had broken off inside the hinge (the one that unscrews from the rear of the machine) and wasn't supporting the tension when closing it, so...

Thanks, unless I can add a single 2GB chip I'll probably order those 2x1GB. If 533mhz is the max then it looks I will be ordering them.

Intel processors. And if it matters, I bought it before they added in the correct motherboards so I have the crap version.

I don't have my paperwork for my 7700 and I'm not sure how to detect for something like this, but I'm looking at buying a bunch of new memory for it so what's the best kind I would want to get? PC XX00 DDR? ???mhz SODIMM whatever. ...

Thanks for the sites! I gave the first one a call now so I'll see where that goes. And I should have said hinge instead of latch, sorry. It's been a long morning, having your laptop's hinge break does not help.