Posts by Juason

I recently purchased a new Seagate Momentus 5400RPM 160GB drive for my XPS Gen 2 laptop. I was upgrading from the 4200RPM 100GB it came with. Unfortunately... it seems the damn thing won't recognize the HD for its true size. Multiple...

Alright so I'm thinking about upgrading my 4200rpm 100GB drive in my XPS Gen2 laptop. The only problem is, I can't seem to figure out if it is an UATA or a SATA interface. I guess I could just pull it out and look, but I was hoping...

The laptop is out of warranty, and when I took apart the GPU everything appeared to be touching properly. The ram is contacting via several thick blue heat pads. Removing them would prevent the ram from contacting the heatsink at all...

I have good reason to believe my XPS Gen2 has always had an overheating problem, going on a year now - and I never realized it. You know, the Nvidia control panel temperature reading always differed from what several other temp programs...

Woot! Thanks for the help guys. I guess that slider really is ULTRA sensitive. Again I apologize for bumping it a bit, but now the problem is fixed for more than one of us - and that is always a good thing

Blargh. Bumping this out of frustration. I apologize in advance, but in all reality - it is so loud I am afraid it will blow out something if I am not careful. Are we sure everyones' are like this?

Geeesh. That is quite a massive oversight on their part. Do all Dell 17" notebooks suffer from this? Several programs actually use the PC speaker (beeping it at regular intervals) to inform you of certain progress. It is...

Windows has no control over the PC speaker - at least MUTE fails to mute it, and adjusting the controls in audio properties has no effect. The bios has no info on the PC speaker that I have found Any ideas? I am suprised I seem to...

Heh, as the title says... the PC speaker is about 500x too loud. It is so loud it shakes the case, deafens my ears, and wakes everyone on the block up. Unfortunately it has a tendancy to go off at the worst times (some programs beep...

Ahh I see. Thank you for the response. Ok, so that's one idea shot down. Well, I suppose it is a good thing that LCDs for laptops are still getting better and better. Now to figure out how to replace this thing before it dies on me...