Posts by groovon

Thanks. I'm pretty sure the HD is OK, but I can do a swap and see what happens. According to the link you gave, the 4 beep code might mean a 'bad motherboard'. Can you suggest any further means of self-diagnosis, to try and pin...

Update: I tried booting up this morning, and after many false starts I eventually got the first restore disk to start. So it is now in the middle of a third clean install. Assuming the machine boots up with the clean install, what...

I reassembled my M6805 last night after cleaning it out and installing the new DVD-RW drive. Things seemed to go smoothly. Also fixed the screen flicker problem, switched the inside DIMM to a 512MB one, and glued back a small piece of...

Never mind, I just did it. Burned the 3 disks, no problem. Dave

I have a new R61i and I want to install a Hitachi 7200rpm hard drive in it. Can someone kindly explain the procedure of transferring the Vista OS from it's partition (hidden?) on the original HD, in order to reinstall it on a...

Hi guys. I just this morning traded in my week-old Toshiba for a new Lenovo R61i from Circuit City. I LOVE the solid feel of this thing! Sorta takes one back to the days when computer design was mil-spec and the plastic was...

oops. [Please check IBM/Lenovo forum.] Dave

OK, the more I think about it, maybe this is like comparing apples to oranges. BTW, the Lenovo I'm talking about is just the barebones model with the 1.8GHz processor and only 1GB of RAM, priced to compete at Circuit City with other...

I don't know if this is the right place for a comparison between brands - I don't want to start a flame war - but I've got to decide whether to keep my Toshiba (A215-S4697) or trade 'up' to a Lenovo T61 (or something else) before the...

Yep, you guys here on the emachines forum are indoobetebly the tech gurus of the Internets! And even put up with dumb nooBie questions! 8>) How cool can you get? Hey, thanks for the historical update Anaconda. denb, here's...