Posts by EricElliott

Failed Panasonic combo in HP had flat clip on face. Toshiba combo drive from Asus Z80K had face secured with 3 screws and curved to match Asus side. She got my face. If NEC 6500A can fit Asus face, I will be looking for source to buy...

Sold my combo drive into sister in law's HP notebook. That left a DVD writer size hole in Z80K. Want to put NEC 6500A DVD dual layer writer into my Z80k. Pros & cons? Should different drive be installed? Is face plate only...

Why would I use intel utility in Asus with AMD CPU & Broadcom wireless? I specifically avoided Intel products due to past failures. Nvidia chipset. AMD 64 CPU, Marvel & Broadcom LAN in Z80k.

http://adamant.com/ has satisfied me. Thomas is good tech support & Linux user. No long telephone waits so far. Price, quick ship, tracking #, everything I needed to choose & get delivery before I had to travel. Happy with...

Installed 0208.002 BIOS in Z80K. No change. Did clean install of WinXP Pro with SP2. That cured unstable fan speed, hot air out back vent & mini vacations. Now vent is cool, fan is quiet & system is fast. BUT the WLAN driver...

Z80K Athlon 3400, 1 MB 400 MHz, 80 GB WD, combo drive. Had constantly changing fan speed. Mini vacations became frequent. Fedora core 4 X32 had same fan speed unstable problem. 2.8 BIOS did not cure. Clean WinXP Pro install cured...