Posts by deadzone

The Pentium M is a great CPU. It really is. The power management is great and it's performance is very good as well. The AMD mobile chip seems to be faster with just as good power management though. It's too bad Intel can't get the...

Inspiron 8600 - Is it possible to access the hinges somehow and tighten them up a bit? My hinges seem to be getting pretty loose as of late. (Lot's of play in the hinges when opened) I was hoping I could just tighten them up a...

Good point. Oh well, check it out anyway just to make sure. Could just be a faulty drive I guess...

Hmmm maybe make sure that the hard drive is not running in PIO mode under your hard drive settings. Sounds like it may not be running in Ultra DMA Mode for whatever reason. Go to the Properties of your primary HD Channel and make sure...

That would be a negligible performance increase. Sink the money into a faster/bigger hard drive or more ram.

So would this just default to my 333mhz speed on my Inspiron 8600 if I bought it or is it not compatible at all with my system?

I run all three and have never had problems at all. So I dunno YMMV I guess.

I agree with the common sense part for sure.... and also think that you should have: A good hardware/software firewall combination A good Anti-Virus software At least two spyware programs The MS Firewall enabled (What the heck...

Cool! A dead pixel story that turned out to be a positive experience too. That rocks. BTW, the drive has already shipped, that's some fast service for you!

WOW!! Have a good time with that sir! Lucky dog.