Posts by foolhaha

Yes. If you installed Dell Touchpad driver. You can setup it in control panel mouse property.

ADMIN, Have you tried on 8890 to see if the hardware temperature monitor software such as "MotherBoard Monitor" works or not? If yes, it would be a huge help to fight with heat.

Well, here is an interesting news about DDR400 memory for laptop. It's time to use your imagination now. Nanya views DDR400 rejection by Dell as slight glitch

I believe you need XP SP1 to see it.

Just FYI To fully take advantage of HT, you need an OS that supports multiple CPUs, such as Win2K, WinXP Pro. WinXP Home DOES NOT support multiple CPU, thus, enabling HT in XP home only will create more heat. You won't get any...

Very good info. As I know, Win2k isn't as good as XP for laptop. One of the reason is bad PowerManagement. I had problem even on my desktop that Win2K cannot switch to power saving mode. Also, some application will interfere with OS...

I would do a totally clean install (Windows -- neither update nor repair, all latest drivers, directX, and so on) first, (of course, ignore me if you've already done it). If teh problem still there, I would definitely get a rma

It seems video RAM problem to me. Usually Windows only use a very small amount of video RAM for 2D display. But if you have, say, some bad memory block in upper address, the 3D functionality in DirectX would use those upper addressed...

O, well, I'll keep eye on this. I guess until we find out who's the motherboard maker, we probably cannot do anything. Anyway, PCTORQUE, I appreciate your help and the link to that thread. Thanks a lot.

PCTORQUE might help here. Can you tell us the makers of the motherboard and the chip/sensor? That would be very helpful.