Posts by phyrewall

1st - PONG (Still have it and it works) http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...asp?c=873&st=3 2nd - The Magnovox Odyssey2 (loved the cowboy gunfight game) http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...asp?st=2&c=695 3rd - Coleco...

http://www.dbpoweramp.com This software and it's available codecs is my preferred converter. It does everything quickly with little/no overhead or useless bells and whistles. Oh, and it's free.

Windowsblinds - I like it, especially the 5imple skin or the Aero skin (very Vista) ObjectDock - I use it to impress friends, but otherwise I leave it off since it's very processor intensive. The whole pack might be a good thing,...

I had a mx510 and loved it. Wife spilled coffee on her mouse, so I gave her my mx510 and bought myself a G5 (I'm such a bastard, I know). I love the G5. I hade cordless cause I hate batteries. The G5 has a great feel to it, the teflon...

I bought two 36gig Raptors back when they came out. Raid Stripe 0, and they made game load times significantly faster than my 7200rpm drives that were Stripe 0 as well. I think they're worth it, but technology is changing so rapidly that...

XPS M170, 2 gig ram, maxed settings, latest Dell drivers, no problems. NBHWC set the Hdd to 254.

hummm... anyway to get the new version? I reformatted my XPS... --edit nevermind, I actually used Google... duh. It looks like DMX was replaced on the XPS by MCE 2005? I got my XPS about 8 months ago and it has MCE 2005.

Quote: Originally Posted by wiltedjoint What inherent risk are you referring to? Nuking the chip, mostly. I don't exactly get tech support out here.

I have an XPS M170, at 2.13 stock. Is it worth the inherent risk to pin mod this laptop?

any pics or better description of the video issue? My XPS does this bizarre thing with it's video on rare occasions, you've got me worried.