Posts by Tyranous

My 8886 does the same. I first noticed it about a year after purchase...Anyone know any way to fix this? (maybe an external charger to fix the battery or something?)

Hey all! I've been gone from the forums for about a year, I purchased my 8860 February '03 and haven't been available for comment since Well, I suddenly decided one day to benchtest my laptop (I hadn't bothered when it first...

The loop I was talking about would be around the power supply. Where the power cord exits the converter, wrap it (loosely) around the power supply once and tape it, that way the stress isn't on that little accordion connector, which, as...

If you haven't already returned it, (and if the 8887 battery is compatible withthe 8886) I would be interested in purchasing it from you.

My power supply is doing the same thing. It's probably the little accordian connector where the cord exits the power supply (going to the computer). This seems to be the achilles heel of laptop power. I've had a large number of...

I haven't had any trouble with mine so far. But then again I don't think I would notice anyway since I have my lappy set up to do absolutely nothing when you shut the lid. I would assume you should be able to simply work the switch a...

I have an 8886 and it has worked just fine for almost a year. Suddenly last night the DVD playback began having problems. When playing movies, backgrounds that are supposed to be black are purple instead...And during normal scenes...

I have an 8886 and it's been working just fine for me for about seven months now. I hadn't updated windows for about a month and I just did tonight. Now my network connection doesn't work. The computer claims that it is connected but...

I've got an 8886, Is there a way to turn off the backlight on the LCD without turning off/hibernating/stand-bying the laptop? Basically I'm looking to increase the charging rate of the battery and extending the lifetime of the LCD...

Ahh, so it doesn't have the pgup and pgdn keys other than on the number pad? Shoot, it looks like I'm going to just have to mod the keyboard how myself for I want it. (the decimal on the number pad being above the 7 instead of below...