Posts by E1505Guy

Video drivers on Dell are always behind, get the official ati or nvidia drivers or some other 3rd party (like Omega drivers).

Quote: Originally Posted by corrado85 nope, you just got jipped. thats all i got a better deal than him on my sisters e1505 2months ago as well. gotta be a smart shopper my lil man, gotta be a smart shoper...

Outlet prices are weird...I've been watching for a few days. Snatched this one as soon as I saw it.

Previously Ordered New... e1505 Intel Core Duo processor T2400 (2MB Cache/1.83GHz/667MHz FSB) 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM 533MHz (2 DIMMs) 60 GB EIDE Hard Drive (7200 RPM) 6 Cell Primary Battery Intel Pro Wireless 3945 15.4 WXGA Notebook...

What's a good price for my specs? (See sig). 4 months of warranty left that can be extended. The Acer screen is not for sale.

$500-$600

I'd do the memory and HD before the processor. Those are the main bottlenecks in the system. May want to expand to 2 GB of memory if your budget allows to allow a bit of future-proofing. www.newegg.com

Yes, all the time. Hesitation in Word, playback of video on the web, even the start menu. It happened even before a full reformat. It's like it'll freeze for a split second and then continue frequently in almost everything I do. It's...

Found this on microsoft's site... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315335/ It's a start.

CPU will go full throttle (1.86 GHz). Bad motherboard I'm thinking...