Posts by Doug@Niche

I am happy to report that if you follow the steps outlined in my previous post you will have success !!! Make sure you do the ALPS driver last and reboot.

Done.

Not Samsung. Hitachi (IBM) HTS54808 80GB 5400RPM According to Promise they do not support the SMART commands in their driver and therefore none of the monitor programs can access the drive condition or status. Is this stupid or what?

I rolled back the KBC firmware to F2 because F6 did not do the Fn+F10 Fan Hotkey right and my system would give me the overheat alarm and shutdown ungracefully so I really want to stay with the F2 version. I believe I have the...

I am now running KBC firmware 1.00.F2 and was running 1.00.F6 Both versions malfunction, under battery power only, as soon as battery power drops below 75%. My mouse cursor goes crazy and moves and clicks all over the place causing...

Well I was using Mobile Meter to monitor my HDDs when they were in ATA mode on the RAID controller but now that I've upgraded my 8790 to dual 80GB 5400RPM HDDs and configured them as a RAID 0 array Mobile Meter can no longer report the...

FYI All, Sager Tech Support had me create a boot CD that can be used to flash the BIOS and the KBC (whatever that is) and I followed their instructions and everything is working great!!! I was running BIOS V122 1.00.10 and KBC 1.00.F6...

Thanks G-Omaha I've now got a email trail going with Sager tech support on this matter. What is strange is the system ONLY overheats when the fans are wide open. When I don't use the Fn+F10 to blast the fans, and I let the system run...

In typical techy fashion I'm going to reply to my own post having done more searches on this forum and finding helpful information. But I still need to understand why the 8790 operates this way. See a working temporary...

I may have a problem with the Fn+F10 Fan Hotkey on my 8790. My system operates like this: I boot up and let the system hit its steady state idle temp of around 48 *C (mobmeter.exe) When I want to run the fans at full speed, while...