Posts by HoofHearted

I replaced my inverter successfully on my Acer 1712. I got the part from Acer themselves for $25. I forgot my camera so I could not take any pictures, so I tried to write down these steps immediately after I did this. The silly...

I'm not too crazy about that bart thing. I was kind of curious if I just used a DOS boot CD and stuck in a spare blank laptop drive (I have a 20G that I use no more sitting around).

Thanks. Probably wont do it, unless I go for the 6800 Ultra upgrade. Not sure if all the issues are worked out of that yet. Maybe combine it with a 7800 upgrade if the future holds that for me. It was fun and quite easy though. I...

np. I guess what I really want is an explanation of why or why not 3dmark is an indicator of "bang for buck and effort". I don't plan to undo this updgrade, so I was curious if anyone found better performance improvments...

I missed nothing. By stock, I mean the CPU that came with it. That was test #1 which produced the first three scores. AFTER, I did the pin mod with a 1.6/400 CPU I bought from ebay. The BIOS shows 2.13 for both current and max, so...

I ran 3dmark on my 9300 with the stock 1.6 533 cpu (the cheapest one dell had). I have 2GB RAM installed (from newegg). I ran it 3 time and got scores of 2991, 2989, and 2983. I then did the pimod. I now got scores of 3023, 2992, and...

Bought this "stock" from Dell for $947: Pentium M 730 (1.6/533) XP Home 256M RAM DDR2/533 GF6800 17" UXGA 40 GB HD 24X CD Burner DVD Combo 9 cell battery with free 64MB USB Mem Stick Intell 2200 wireless Had...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tar_Heel_Guy WOW! Dell must have had a rush of people buyin' the bluetooth cheaper as a spare part instead of original config and raised the price. Ironic.. I still remember the guy that...

This isn't annoying ... actually kind of hypnotic : awdance::a wdance: : awdance::a wdance: : awdance::a wdance: : awdance::a wdance:

One funny thing I noticed is that if you are at 256M, the option to go to 2G says to add $1000 which means they take away your 256 chip and stick in 2 1G chips prior to shipping to you. If you go to "Upgrade your system" and...