Posts by Curly_in_FL

Did you purchase the 120 watt or the 70 watt model? The 70 watt model won't carry the load of the 6811.

When I upgraded my 80 GB 4200 RPM drive with the Hitachi 60 GB 7200 RPM drive many moons ago, I purchased an inexpensive external 2.5" USB drive enclosure ($14) and used PM to perform the imaging/mirroring without any...

Quote: Originally Posted by monkeyboy383 i like it, but i'm having huge problems with the connection, and i think its coming from my wireless card... the connection isn't very stable and the card can't always find the...

I received the 1GB Kingmax sodimm from newegg and installed it in my m6811 on 6/1/05. I now have 1.25GB ram in my laptop. I ran it through 6+ hours of memtest86+, extended periods of Doom3, and several movies without a single glitch...

2 machines here: My first machine is a m6805 purchased on 1/25/04. I don't know when the hinge covers cracked because I never noticed them until I saw a post here about the cracked hinge covers in May 2005. When I checked my hinges,...

Quote: Originally Posted by DonQuePaso ... The notebook itself was nice. Well built chassis, nice paint, and the screen was immaculate. However, upon opening the box I noticed that there wasn't an OS disk provided. Not...

Quote: Originally Posted by surferboy2 When using "ghost" to copy the drive to the new drive (which is in an enclouse) how did you do this? A disk-2-disk copy? Did you need to boot with a ghost boot disc to...

I have an eMachines m6811 (practically the same core machine) and did the very same upgrade. My method of choice was to put the 7k60 in an external USB 2.5" HD chassis and use Norton Ghost to 'copy' the drive. Then I installed...

Maybe a dumb question here, but did you load the same version of the Broadcom wireless driver and utility? And if so, what version and where did you acquire them?

Prem0, I must have been the lucky one on the forum. In the last year, I have bought several refurbed Canon printers and a couple of AMD64/Asus A8V barebone kits from TigerDirect with not one single problem. Granted this is not a...