Posts by Juparis

I tried what you suggested, CCityInstaller, twice: After the first [re]trial, nothing changed. It would boot up normally for about 8 seconds, and then suddenly crash. After the second [re]trial, It wouldn't even boot up. Instead, it...

Thanks dpfab463, but unfortunately your advice came to late. I've already attempted changing the past on my own with some other tutorials that I had found. The result? Just short of catostrophic. Or maybe not; I still haven't...

Thank you for all the responses so far! Considering my schedule, I think it's safe to say that I won't go Gentoo, as much as I'd love to have the most optimization for this machine. And when I said old, it isn't all that bad--3 years...

Forgive me everyone, I'm about as n00bish as they get, especially when it comes to Linux. Because of recent kernel errors with Windows (and general dissatisfaction with M$'s monopoly of the market), I thought Linux would be a great...

Greetings! I'd like to change the thermal paste in the heatsink on this laptop, which is an eMachines M5310--a model among several from eMachines that were manufactured with faulty heatsinks (or something involving the heatsink; I...

Now if only I could get a hold of the damn support center. They need to email me a code to place on the package or else they won't accept it when it arrives. It's when they don't respond that I get frustrated.

Greetings! Previously, I had posted on ailments of a monitor failure. Thanks to the great people on these forums (and a barely understandable voice from the support phone line), I found out it was a dead memory chip. Finally, I got a...

How will I find the reason unless I try again? Yet, the cards are so damn expensive... I don't suppose there's an easy way to open her up and see if it's faulty or not??

It has the appropriate initials, and I realized why it wasn't able to read the memory card I had inserted (and why it had been so hard to remove)--it literally melted off the bottom half! I never keep the notebook on for more than an...

Greetings, yet again. This is not so much a problem as it is to satisfy my curiosity.. I noticed a port on the front of my S96J used for reading memory cards (from digital cameras). It wasn't until recently that I found an old chip...