Posts by Azureal

I spilled a full cup of coffee into my e1705 laptop not once but twice! The first time when it was about two weeks old, I thought I was going to be sick. In both cases I was able to completely clean and fully dry all parts and get the...

I have bought two in the past couple of months, the first from an Amazon Marketplace seller who claimed that I was paying for the 9 cell 80 watt hour battery. As it turned out, the battery was really a 53Wh 6 cell knock off piece of...

Here are a couple of resources to check out: This references Windows 2000, but believe it or not it is the same code in the HAL attempting to control and access a bogus driver to some piece of hardware as the code used in...

Here is a quick pic of the label: Attachment 15274

I don't know if it really matters. I recently bought a couple of PA-13 supplies for use with my e1705 with a recently upgraded 7950GTX. I bought them from http://www.parts-people.com and did not have any choice of revision or...

I asked the same question a few weeks ago and decided to go with the 320GB 5400 Western Digital drive. The benchmarks clearly show it being faster than the Hitachi 60GB 7200 drive I originally had. Benchmarks of newer drives also show...

I have to agree with TT. The ATI tool is great for setting the clocks but not so great at determining when you'll have noticeable issues while benching or more importantly gaming. I pushed my 7950GTX to some crazy clocks last evening...

Yeah, $10.95 for the whole set would be acceptable, but each? That is highway robbery! ;-) I may be tempted personally to try to rig something with some generic rubber bumpers from a craft store or Home Depot/Lowes/Ace hardware...

Did you check out http://www.parts-people.com/ ? They have a selection of parts for many Dells. Azureal

Desktop drives require +5 and +12 volts to operate. You'd have to figure out the power situation to get that to work. Azureal