My lappy is about 2,5 years old. She was a Gen2 when first delivered but has been upgraded to an M170 since. Her CPU is now a 1.8GHz pinmodded to 2.4GHz and that has kept her following the bar everytime it was raised.
She's still...
Ah... actually I have an XPS gen 2 and I already did it.
I'm not sure if you can remove the pads as easily on a 6800U as you can on the 7800GTX, but it worked just fine for me. I think the boards and coolers are identical so it should...
Thermal pads suck, but at least they suck. If you add more layers of anything to it it will just create more heat transferance resistance. That means bad.
Simply try to just use AS5 by mounting it as you would and then taking it...
How about do a fan mod. Take 12v from somewhere in the lappy, hook it up to 5v and put a nice juicy 7v on the fan. It'll work.
Some nice Power Control circuitry and it'll work from software too.
I'm working on that right now.
it'll...
It depends on how old your lappie is. If it's new enough it will have a string embedded in the bios that will auto-activate Vista for you.
If not, you'll need a key or the infamous (but 100% working) workaround.
I myself could not...
Pulling thumbs out of asses... shits and giggles... farted... Am I the only one who sees these words standing out like sore thumbs? (that were recently inserted in asses).