Posts by Vcdechagn

Looks like a 8800GTX SLI. It doesn't get a whole lot better than that. ...Processor is very good, not the best but very good. Physics processing included as well. Don't regret your warranty..because you got a great machine essentially...

Last Saturday I unplugged my wife's laptop and it died. Plugged it back in and fired it up and called support. Support determined it was the battery and sent me a new battery overnight. It arrived Tuesday afternoon and fixed the problem....

If it is CD/DVD based only, there are essentially two choices. 1. Something is wrong with your DVD player 2. It's in PIO mode. Since it's attached to your secondary IDE channel, you might want to double check that as well. Have you...

Did you check both primary and secondary IDE? Make sure both are at Ultra DMA, not PIO? What exactly is slow? Just burning or all hard drive activity?

Check to make sure your drives (CD and Hard Drive) are in Ultra DMA mode (see attached screenshot). That should fix the slow burning, especially if your buffer levels are not being maintained properly. An hour to hour conversion is...

I find this thread highly amusing because the way I discovered my wife's bad battery in her SZ yesterday (no one takes a 1705 to the bathroom, right? ) is unplugging it and it dying on me...on the way to the bathroom. Surfing on the...

Want to trade for a Sony SZ? (don't tell my wife, it's her computer and I need time to convince her to take my 1705 so I can have your 1710) LOL. Good luck. I can't believe you're trading it in..but I certainly see why.

Quote: Also, $50 is FAR too much for an enclosure, though I appreciate the thought Vcdechagn. No problem. I had a 10% off coupon, it came with an AC adapter and the extra cable for USB power and free shipping at...

http://www.buy.com/prod/INFOSAFE_2_5...202702035.html that's the one I have. It's aluminum. No pic on buy.com, but you can see a pic on this site: http://www.usb-2-0.com/startech-satcase25otg.html It required either AC or a second USB...

www.expresscard.org for the technical specifics (and links to card sellers. I'm actually seriously thinking about an external enclosure with a bunch of drives after seeing that site. I don't know the specifics of the speed of the slot,...