Posts by goodbyegti

Pinko, I personally changed the pictures to that bold text as they are hosted on my site! Before i did this he just had loads of pics of my laptop which i sold the other day!

Yeah, i have reported it, what these scammers usually do is steal passwords for eBay accounts with good feedback, then use that persons credit to pay for an expensive featured advert and try and get as many people as they can to 'do a...

So this guy nicked all my pictures i used to sell me XPS... He even had the audacity to link back to my host...ha hah ha! Check the link: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DELL-XPS-M170-...QQcmdZViewItem

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The other thing is you shouldn't drain it, it will last longer with smaller discharges, full cycling is only applicable to ancient ni-cds from ten or so years ago.

It's very easy to install, i fitted a X300 ati card in my m170 in about 20 minutes. I'm also after a 7800GTX, the best price I have seen is on american ebay for about £240 delivered to the UK.

You can fit an ATI X300 video card, i'm running a 128Mb version in my second M170 at the moment. This reduces power consumption by quite a bit.

Use Notebook Hardware Control, go to the battery section and check out your battery wear level. You can also see the real time power consumption of your laptop and experiment with tweaking stuff to reduce the power consumption e.g....

Yep, because li-ion batteries explode (i'm not joking) if they are overcharged, therefore it's very much in Dell's interest to have overcharge protection...

Where on the dell website can i find the spare parts section? I can't find it anywhere, it won't find the part number i have either on the search.. Do i need to phone up customer support? Cheers.. I tired searching but get an...