Posts by catmonkey

Hi all, On friday (28th) i purchased my first mac (Macbook)! i am so excited and cant wait to get away from windows! i cant count how many hours ive had to spend fixing my Dell Inspiron 6000D! anyway, on the apple website it said it...

hi, i recently got a replacement palm rest and while putting the old one away i found my old LCD screen in its box again which got me thinking. Would it be possible to set it up as a second monitor to connect to my 6000d as well as the...

hi, thanx for your advice. while i have this thread open i might as well ask now. My seagate 100Gb 5400rpm hdd that i upgraded to after a lot of movement can make like scratching/squeeking noises (hard to discribe). these noises will...

hi, thanx for your reply your advice is very helpful. What if i did e-mail dell and made up that my touchpad and/or buttons were broken? when they recieve my palm rest with the touchpad wont they realise that it isnt really broken and...

This is the only thing that annoys me about this laptop, and the fact that the paint is rubbing off the palm rests, ill get to that later. I am running BIOS version A09 which i know is the latest and have always had to press fn+z to...

hi, I have been getting the message "your battery is reaching the end of its useable life" so i went onto dell chat yesterday (Monday). In 10 mins i managed to get a new battery sent to me without any questions asked. There...

hi, just thought i would post some pictures of my 6000d in...

hi, i just wanted to report how much of a difference it has made now i have taken my laptop apart and cleaned out the fan and heatsinks! I have seen massive drops in temp: CPU was around 40-45 surfing the net CPU now at 31-32...

hi, i e-mailed seagate and told them, they told me that to get rid of these errors i need to re-format. would the errors found effect my computer in any way? i would like to avoid starting from scratch again! i have seen software that...

hi, thanx for the suggestion here are the results: File structure test results - Failed with critical errors Errors found in one or more file records one or more errors found in the index one or more errors found in metadata file...