Posts by meekus

A 5205's P4-M processor is good up to like 100ºC. Highest temp I've ever seen with my 5205 has been like 86ºC and the motherboard has never suffered any type of permanent damage. That said, I use SpeedFan to keep an eye on my...

Has the HD been partitioned then formatted? You'll need to partition the drive before you can format it and before it'll show up in WinExplorer. IIRC--this is with WinXP, Vista should be similar--in the Control Panel, check under...

You can try eBay for used RAM or maybe a reseller like BestBuy, CompUSA, CircuitCity, Fry's, et al. for new RAM. You can use PC100 of course, but most resellers will only stock PC133 since it is backward compatible with PC100 and PC133...

Are there known issues with the condition of the installed hard disk...i.e. is it defective with like eleventy billion bad sectors or something?

It's a Satellite 1715XCDS? If so, it features one slot for adding an old-sk00l PC133 144-pin SODIMM, allowing for up to 192MB total RAM--the 64 MB already installed is not removeable. More info...

Toshiba laptop BIOSes contain a DMI string that identifies the model. Think of it like a digital ID tag that allows or prevents any particular Toshiba recovery DVD from working on said laptop. If the DMI string is somehow cleared or set...

Quote: Originally Posted by kaltek if thats the case then your probably better off with a 7200rpm drive most people dont realize this but its def worth mentioning the 7200rpm drive will eat more battery life then a...

It's never a good idea to disassemble an LCD...any dust that gets onto the backside of the LCD glass where the CCFL backlighting shines through will show up as real annoying dark specks.

When buying a 3+ year old laptop, you may also be looking at the added expense of buying another laptop battery as well. Figure that Li-ion battery chemistry is only good for about 3 years from the date of manufacture before the battery...

In many cases, hard disks with lower spindle RPMs but with very high areal data density (i.e. high capacity drives) can access data as fast as lower capacity, faster RPM drives because so much more data can be read from or written to the...