Posts by Wandering

So i figured out the problem. The dc power jack on the notebook is broken. Does anyone know where I could get a dc power jack for the MSI 1029 (aka megabook 635)

I am having issues with my msi 1029, and my warranty has just gotten over .The power supply / power supply socket on the laptop has a loose connection. anyone know any place around virginia (fairfax) which sells the power supply for...

Well the quick reply to my other problem prompted me to post this. The clock shows considerable drift. and shows completely wrong time. I use both windows Xp and linux (debian). Searching for MSI 1029 clock skew will show that this is...

Switching off powerplay in the ati drivers did it for me.

If I remove the AC power cord,the display just stops refreshing in windows. I think this happened around the same time that I installed the ATI drivers (from the ati website). Linux works just fine without the ac power. And even in...

Well got the laptop today. its awesome!! buyxg threw in a laptop case for free The laptop reached me in 10 days (from the order), which for me is pretty good. And they included a small manual which shows how to replace the cpu and...

Sure, will benchmark the ram. Will also be setting up linux, so probably will also write a howto on getting debian onto this laptop. However - they do take very long to ship. I placed my order on 24th. The estimated ship date is...

I decided to bite. Am buying this baby. Placed the order yesterday. Sys specs AMD Turion™64 MT-30 CPU @ 1.6GHz 1024 Mb RAM,80 gig 5400 HDD, DVDRW, x700 128 mb ,Wireless 802.11G 54Mbps MiniPCI Card All this for $1148 - WOOT!!...

I decided to bite. Am buying this baby. Placed the order yesterday. Sys specs AMD Turion™64 MT-30 CPU @ 1.6GHz 1024 Mb RAM,80 gig 5400 HDD, DVDRW, x700 128 mb ,Wireless 802.11G 54Mbps MiniPCI Card All this for $1148 - WOOT!!...

The notebook is a MSI 1029. There is a review for that available in this forum. Ive bought from buyxg before (my radeon card). I am looking into buying the xg action 6000 from buyxg too because 1) they have a 5% off going on...