Posts by scales

Hi, i want to play Age of Empires 3 on my Dell 1405 which has the onboard 945GM video card. For some reason, it only is taking 34mb of ram when i believe it can max out at 128mb. anyone know how i could manually set the amount of ram?...

Ok, well here is my situation. i got a laptop and a desktop. both will be behind a router 99% of the time, and for safety reasons, i guess i should have an antivirus/firewall solution. Currently I use zonealarm security suite. It is...

Hi, got a question. my friend would like to buy a 14 inch notebook. would it make any sense to wait a while? say a few weeks? they dont need anthing fancy. i would like it to be able to play a few basic games, maybe black and white...

humm. ok well after further investigation, i was told by tech support that the cl56 does not allow for one to boot off of a flash usb drive. oddly enough, it can boot from a floppy that plugs into the usb drive. does this make sense?...

humm, i dont see boot via usb anywhere in my bios. i have version 1.00. i know that 1.2 is available, anyone know what the updates are? or if there are newer versions?

well yes it appears in the boot menu, if i press c, then i dont need to enter the menu, it just says ok he wants to check and see if he can boot from this cdrom here, and then it does it. i just wanted a hot key that would tell my...

awesome! coolest trick yet on this notebook! wonder if F will boot from the usb..... EDIT: Ok well F didn't boot from the usb....anyone know how to boot from the usb by pressing a key?

anyone know which keys must be pressed in order to get the bios on the compal cl56 to boot from a cd without entering the bios? i thought i read somewhere that you could just hold down a combination of keys at startup and it would boot...

i also have a cl56 and am interested in this. ps, i am running the 1.0 bios, but i thought i read somewhere that if you upgraded the bios, you could boot from a cd or floppy by holding down certain keys,(not having to go in and change...

anyone know what the best nvidia geforce go 5200 video drivers are? i know omega used to make more nvidia drivers, but doesnt really keep up to date...?!?!