Posts by Rush242

Hey Folks, If you are interested in the Atheros cards, check out this thread, http://www.notebookforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122352. It looks as if they've worked out a deal for one of the other cards. Good luck...

If it's mobile, take it IN to Radio Shack. They sell all that sort of stuff, and can check it to make sure it's the right one.

AH, thanks. Intel® 855GME+ICH4M Chipset PC-2700 @ 333MHz. Now, does anyone know where to buy one? Someone quoted me $495.00, that seems high to me...

Quote: Originally Posted by The BugEater On the contrary, the new ones have a 533 Mhz FSB, as opposed to a 400, the 915 GM+ICH6 motherboard, instead of the 855GME, an' the Intel GMA900 extreme video card instead of the...

Rest assured, if my Sentia comes back, I'm all over this upgrade! Thanks again for posting it!!

Thanks, I'll let you know. I haven't made up my mind yet. With the internet being so new, and companies just now starting to figure out that not only can their customers bitch, they can bitch to millions of people, this can only raise...

So, off it goes to the Depot. All is well. Except, when it gets there, it boots fine. Yes, folks, it boots fine. So they run it through whatever benchmarking software they have for two days. All is well. Needless to say, I'm not...

Quote: Originally Posted by booga Yeah, alienware reps do frequent this forum. Even their CEO gets involved. Oh, kewl. For whatever that's worth, it's way better than anyone else out there. At least they are...

Quote: Originally Posted by aurora You can send an Alienware rep a message from here if it makes it any easier. Alienware-JuanG The AW guys hang out here as well? Is that obvious, am I just not paying attention?

So, I took it into the local computer guy (two of them, actually) and they took it apart. Both of them said the motherboard was dead. One of them offered to replace it, but said the motherboard alone would be $495.00. Plus $45.00 per...