Posts by mickelliot

Hi auroraS and djembi, Thunderbird is my default email client. I'd actually like to remove outlook altogether but for some reason it reappears when I try to uninstall it - I guess it is an integral part of windows. I'll visit...

Hello, I understand that the z71v allows you to add a second battery or a second hard drive in the space normally occupied by an optical drive. I would like to ask, first of all, what is the procedure for adding a second hard...

Hi, For some reason I found I had to install "coolbits2" before the settings available on the video card increased. Before then, the driver was updated but I didn't get the extra features available in the control...

Hi, I'm using mozilla thunderbird as an email client. I'm running chkmail but my email led doesn't light up. Is there anything I can do about it? Cheers Mick added in edit: I'm running an asus z71v, it has the led!

I found a how-to: http://forums.legitreviews.com/about...07bc43ab98c6e0 Has anybody tried this? Would it be dangerous to overclock the GPU in that way while also overclocking the processor using the FSB switch? Enjoy! Mick

Hi, I just bought a z71v. It came with a variety of accessories but one of them really confused me. It is some sort of socket converter. It came in the box enclosed in red bubble wrap. It is made out of green circuit board and...

hi ikenfixit you have fixed it. Cheers - THANKYOU [as a note to other users, the old hard drive had a small plastic adapter about 1cm long plugged into its connector. When I removed this adapter from the old drive and put it...

Thanks Teckng778, I will return the hard drive. I'm a bit surprised as I had thought that all notebook hard drives had the same form factor. It kind of makes me nervous about buying another one, given that I won't know whether it fits...

Hi, thanks for your suggestions. I may try to get hold of a 2.5in -> 3.5in adapter to try it out on a desktop. I tried to put the hdd into my girlfriend's laptop (which is a hp pavilion ze4400) and I got an error message that the...

hi unfalliblekrutc, No, it doesn't show up in my bios. I have however tested the notebook with a couple of different Hdds, and they show up fine. So it's something special about the samsung one. added in edit: the samsung disk...