Posts by swaaye

I gave Win8 a try again on my 6805 and I did get Radeon 9600 video drivers working but one must manually install Win7 drivers and this is somewhat complicated. This guide...

I crimped the leads in both ends of the backlight power cable and this has eliminated the flicker. Originally I had only worked on one end (inside the body of the notebook) but I went in and did the end in the LCD and this fixed it up.

Quote:Originally Posted by qhn We have a thread somewhere here with the screen flickering on this model. Have you looked at it?I think I've looked at it yeah. It suggests crimping the connectors in one of the plugs that goes to the...

When I tried Win8, there were no Mobility Radeon 9600 drivers available at all AFAIR. With Win7 I was using the ones that come in off of Windows Update but it seems nobody has don that for Win8 and yeah Win8 is even more restrictive...

Is ~9 years long term? I've still got my 6805. I recently picked up a Athlon 64 3400+ for about $4 and a $7 802.11n mini-PCI card (wicked lol). Maxed out the RAM like 6 years ago. Put a 250GB HDD in it. The screen flickers and...

Yes I am serious. You can google video card "baking" and see some results for yourself.

So a friend of mine has a Inspiron E1705 with a 7900 Go GTX. His original 7900 Go had a heatpipe failure so we picked up the GTX as a replacement. Well, the other day, the GTX began to artifact like crazy and wouldn't run the drivers...

A friend of mine has a Inspiron E1705 with a now-dead 7900M GTX. I was wondering if it is possible to put a 7800 Go GTX in it? I could do a little upgrade for myself by buying his video-card-less notebook and putting my 9300's 7800Go GTX...

Look up MS Virtual PC. It has been free since about 2004. It is what XP mode is based on. You can run just about any OS on just about any OS with it. I've used it for running Win9x in both XP and Vista. I'm amazed that so many people...

I'm interested in the new 40nm ATI chip for notebooks that's being used for Mobility Radeon 4830/4860. Anyone know of any machines using it?