Posts by briantaylor

I can tell you there are definitely XP64 drivers for everything. I have an XP64 partition on my 1730 and it is fully functional. Unfortunately this post wont be terribly helpful as it was a good 8 months ago when I set it up and I have...

The driver not responding is just bad driver. Have you done a video driver update since they changed it so you can get the drivers directly from nVidia? I used to get this error quite frequently after I used nVidia drivers with a...

This is an awesome comparison. Great job on those pics. Brian

This sounds phony, but since no one else has mentioned it the wisest thing to do would be to give it to the police. If no one claimed it then it could legally become yours after a period of time (usually 90 days). In some states...

Its usually extremely hard to find a compatible model, and when you do they are often so expensive that you would be better off buying another laptop. Upgrading the video card is rarely worthwhile. Brian

Are you running windowed mode with Aero on? That can cause a pretty serious performance hit. Brian

Your config matters a lot also. Video cards are the biggest ones that cause delays. Brian

I have seen patterns very similar to that on a video card with memory going bad. That pattern just looks more like a hardware problem than a driver issue. Brian

What you are doing is called tethering and some wireless providers get pretty uptight about it. My work cell phone is a BlackBerry Curve and we pay for the unlimited data plan. Sprint is pretty nice about tethering so I connect to my...

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverthorne_(CPU) "At Spring Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2008 in Shanghai, Intel officially announced that Silverthorne and Diamondville are based on the same microarchitecture. Silverthorne will...