Posts by Starcub

I've seen several reports of people swapping out the stock CPU with a T7500, T81/300, T93/500, and X9000 without requiring a BIOS update.

Quote: Originally Posted by Jamesd12 Haven't posted here in ages.. but I've got a problem, and I remember you guys being a helpful bunch, so here I go! When ever I play a game, my laptop starts beeping and the caps...

I'd expect everything to come out at around the same time. The excuse for delaying the 8800m was that a smaller chip fab was needed for the new architecture due to power/heat reasons. The 9 series is just an evolution of the 8 series...

Assuming you don't care about gaming,you can save a lot by going with the Inspiron 1520 or Vostro 1510 (both under $1000). Anything with a low-mid range C2D CPU and 3GB memory would work for you.

You're using RAID 1: mirror configuration. Clevo's users manual for the D900T describes how to destroy and rebuild the array via the HD controller BIOS. I suspect that destroying your existing array will cause you to have to reformat...

Unfortunately, all the defrag programs I've tried are feature starved compared to what was available about 10 years ago. The most reliable modern defrag program I've found is the one built into Windows.

Most likely he sold you an Intel Robson cache memory module. The memory module is used with Vista and Santa Rosa chipset laptops to speed up disk caching. It may or may not work with your laptop, but since you already bought it, you...

Well the 2 cheaper notebooks are no longer being sold now at newegg, and the most expensive laptop is now $50 more too. Even though the X2 model is $100 more, it's probably still worth it since you get the extra GB of ram and better...

Basically you have workstation requirements and a cheap consumer budget. You're going to have to prioritize. My guess is CPU>memory>GPU>HD size would be a good priority list for you.

WinPE and WAIK seem like overkill for dealing with a damaged MBR. Have you tried following the advice here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392/en-us?