Posts by RigidSig

Well, in addition to the above, I tried reinstalling the latest ATI driver. Didn't work. I also took out the battery and ran it off AC power alone, thinking I may have a bad cell. Again, didn't work. I called Sager for help. I...

Thanks. I tried reinserting the battery, with no resolution of the problem. I found a brightness slider in the ATI Video Card options under Dsiplay>Properties... Again, no effect. I do use it nearly exclusively with the battery...

Oh yeah, 8887. My bad. Heheh. Let me try some simple maneuvers and then I'll repost when I can. Thanks for all the input. BTW, how do you adjust brightness again? I can't seem to find either a slider wheel or a software app to do this.

Here's a new development: I ran it on battery power for an hour without the screen going dark... Then, with 3 min of battery power left, I got the usual "Hook up to AC power soon, battery critical..." message. At that time,...

My 8890V is about 11 months old now. Worked perfectly until today. The display began to blink slowly: Like at first, it would go black and then spring back to life again after about 20 seconds. The next time it happened, about a...

ok, that's a good idea.. I'll give it a try. Thanks.

Hi: This may be a basic question, but what utility do you all use to delete corrupt files? I have been getting alot of them recently, mostly in my game files. Can't delete them or overwrite them with clean copies of the file. How...

Thanks, I did almost overlook that, but that's not it either.. Oh well. I may try with a different brand; maybe a USB interface is more reliable.. Thanks.

I'm having trouble getting my 8887 (WinXP Home) to recognize my over-the-ear headset microphone.. It works well with the built-in microphone, but I don't like leaning into the screen to dictate stuff, so I bought a Labtec (forgot the...

i've used memorex dvd-r and sony dvd-rw and both work great (no coasters)