Posts by stigmata

It was a good idea yolda, it's just that with the current setup, it's kind of limited to certain situations, as you've noted with your temps on your desk vs temps on your bed, but this may turn into a project to kill some time. I don't...

SolApathy: when I was applying the AS5, I didn't pay attention to the fact that the thermal pad on the northbridge was FAAAT. I used ArctiClean to dissolve the thermal crap on the CPU and GPU, and dropped some onto the pad. I cleaned off...

MrEvil, he wasn't referring to the CPU, he was referring to the GPU, which has a black sticker thing that surrounds the core. If you remove the thick blue pad that was on the Northbridge, there will be a gap between it and the heatsink....

Don't remove the black thing. I'd assume that it's just a protective cover to prevent any clumsy techs from screwing up the application of the thermal pads, but leave it there anyways. You only need to clean the raised part in the center.

I fail to see how you have 20 C load temps if I8kfangui is showing 34/40 C idling.

Seriously, that takes skill. Serious skill. I applaud you lawlz_xD.

These hard drives are SATA. The E1705 uses SATA. Just take out your old hard drive, stick either of these in, or any other SATA150 notebook drive for that matter.

Try completely uninstalling the drivers and re-installing Dell's drivers again. I haven't had this issue since I re-installed Dell's drivers.

Yeah, I have to agree about Vista, I've been running Vista Ultimate ever since I got it in the mail (free for beta testing, woo!). There's actually only one thing that Vista's bluetooth support lacks: a decent file transfer protocol....

The Widcomm bluetooth drivers are the best bluetooth drivers available (in my opinion, and most people would agree). Search for version 5.1.0.1100. It's not the newest, but it's the last version that supported 3rd party chipsets,...