Posts by AmigaDude

I think that there are many, many of us who've had the same issue with the touchpads. The reason I went with my DV1000 was the button to turn the touchpad off, which I do quite often. Without the button, you have to use the software...

For your purposes a GPU = Graphics Processing Unit = Video Card, so yes they are all speaking about the same thing. The easiest way for you to figure out whether it is removable, is to bring up the DIsplay Properties and see what type...

Never heard of that b4, but check in the Control Panel for mouse settings. Might be something there.

Can't help you directly, but have to ask - What did they fix/replace the first time? It is probably the exact same thing this time, and without schematics (as you obviously know already) it is just hit or miss.

What model of notebook do you have? I have a DV1000 series, and just pulled a standard svid cable from my drawer and it fit perfectly.

Unless I'm missing something obvious, any S-Video connector is NOT proprietary. It should be a standard din connector that fits any standard cable.

Sounds like a hardware (disk?) problem that is keeping the OS busy. A few questions for you. 1. Are you saying that the problem started 1 month ago? 2. Why did you replace the Harddisk? 3. In Device Manager is anything Red, and what...

At first you will probably not get much use from the extra processor power, but it will help extend the life of your machine as newer (fat) apps come into play or you get heavy into programming. For Sims games, pretty much any modern...

I'm not using one, but my guess is that it works like a Palm Pilot with an SD card. You Press it in again to get it to pop out. (it is spring loaded).

Hey Big Dave, welcome! You will probably need to provide more info, since this could be many things. Easiest would be that the screen saver kicked in and was putting the machine into Standby mode. So, I'll ask a few questions to see...