Posts by Strange Species

My brother buys lots of stuff and tries to fix it, it's just in his nature. Anyway, more about the problem: Things seem to happen rather randomly, sometimes it works, but most of the time it doesn't at all. It crashes randomly, and...

My brother bought a faulty (knowingly) laptop on ebay, a Sony one. After running memtest86 on it, seems it has thousands/millions of errors being flagged. Now, I would just say "replace the RAM", however, it seems it's a little...

Thanks for all the help everyone, she has now ordered the Asus (well, it's meant to be a christmas present from my dad really). Much appreciated.

Ok, thanks for the help guys, it seems she is now considering one of these two laptops. Which would you choose? Asus: http://laptopcraze.com/asus-a6kq002h...305b2889f0809e Fujitsu-Siemens: http://www.comet.co.uk/html/cache/572_296686.html

I don't think the graphics have to be as good as the X300, but as long as it's cheap, doesn't matter too much. As for the "light" part, no idea really, this is my mum's vague description. Just settle with whatever is at or...

My mum is after a laptop, and as I haven't been looking at the market lately (I got my laptop several months ago), I have no idea what's on offer these days, and at what price. Here are the sort of requirements she would probably...

If I were you I'd buy an external USB floppy disk drive, or borrow one. They're not expensive and may help in the future.

I'd try a non-slipstreamed XP Pro installation. Obtain a USB floppy drive, and copy the SATA drivers on to it. Install XP Pro, loading the drivers from the disk. Install SP1. Install SP2. Download the network versions from the microsoft...

The one you specified seemed to play fine on my laptop. No idea what FPS it was going at though. I have the 3438 with 1.73GHz btw.

However, as ShandyUK said, in a RAID 0 configuration, if you remove one drive, or lose it in some way, you lose the contents of both drives. Not good. However, you can still back everything up as normal, of course. I'd still recommend...