Posts by DrewVanT

I'm looking for a low-range printer, mostly to be used for printing large quantities of black-and-white text, and a little color. Therefore my first priority - by a very large margin - is ink efficiency and cartridge cost. Quality of...

Talk about confusing. "4.40 is newer than 5.30c" actually sounds very illogical. In any case, what I'm using now has the (complete) number 5.1.2600.530, and I'll think I'll stick to that for now.

Try the drivers on Via's website? Put the drivers on a CD? I don't know what else to tell you.

Quote: Originally Posted by Lost Heaven Btw Drew, did you get to buy that external hdd we were talking about on page 10 of the thread? I Naw, never did. I'm still interested in Firewire 800 as a way of getting...

Quote: Originally Posted by Lost Heaven I was trying to avoid that. You know, with all this lagging buzz, and with a system that works great, except for a brr very ocasionally, I'm kind of afraid of doing any...

Quote: Originally Posted by Lost Heaven And as I said, 4 brrs in 3 weeks really doesn't affect it's functionality. Which Via sata/raid driver version do you have? You should try updating to the one on FSC's...

Quote: Originally Posted by Kieran I guess it's no good having a notebook cooler where the fans are not placed correctly at the exhaust/air-intake. Quite. Definitely a waste of money; all you need is a few...

Not a real solution. But it is some sort of solution for the minor nuisance that MY notebook suffered from, at least.

I'll be damn. The Via driver 5.30c has actually solved it for me. It's been two weeks since I installed it and during all this time I have had no "brrr". Before, I got one at least every two hours. I am able to say this with...

Quote: Originally Posted by nadeem Guess what since i've installed the latest driver my fan is running slow at past peace and quiet. Doesn't that mean that it'll get too hot, though? With the old driver, my...