Posts by swaaye

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...

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?

k, so after reading this through a few times, tell me if I'm correct here. I have a M6805 currently running Targa 0F09.P00. This means nothing above 3400+?

Yeah I tried sticking 2x2GB DIMMs in my 9300. It'll recognize only one at a time. Wouldn't even turn on with both in. This screams some sort of BIOS/mobo limitation to me because a single 2GB DIMM worked fine.

I have an Inspiron 9300 modded into a XPS (7800 Go GTX). I call it the 9300XPS. For years now I've had random reboot problems. It's been driving me rather nuts because it was occurring rarely and unpredictably. I even tried making an...

You can install Windows from a USB stick. Not run the actual OS. Vista is super easy, you just FAT32 format the stick in Vista and copy the DVD onto it (xcopy is how I do it) and boot. It has to be formatted with Vista because Vista's...

Well, I mean just boot a USB stick in general. I have bootable USB sticks for installing Vista, XP, Linux, BIOS flashing (DOS), etc. Installing your OS from USB is a substantially faster experience than with CDROM. This notebook's BIOS...