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Quote: Originally Posted by Steve I might just do that. I suspect you'll be around here if I need any help? Sure I will, plus whatever Distro you decide will have an active forum of it's own. Since it's been...
Quote: Originally Posted by qhn By cleaning, did you take the hardware apart, and not just (software) clean the drive? cheers ... I'd listen to ghn. Your laptop is at least 4-5 years old now, it probably has so...
Steve, Linux has come a long way since '01. I think you'll find it more polished and easier to use then it was then. I run KDE as my desktop. It may be more of a resource hog then Gnome, but I love the uniformity and integration between...
Quote: Originally Posted by Seablade IN other words, throughout my life I have used a wide range of distributions. From Gentoo, to Debian, to Maemo, to eLive, to Ubuntu, to Suse, to... well you get the idea. I suspect...
After reading about WUBI in this thread I started doing some research on it. From what I've been reading, it seems as though this may be of interest to a Linux newbie but not of much use for anyone else. For one thing the entire OS...
Quote: Originally Posted by Mr T This kind of sums it up.... Actually, not quite. Everybody has forgot to mention Wikipedia! If you're a self taught computer guy like myself it's invaluable. Come across a term...
Steve you say it may be rare in newer laptops, but how would anyone know for sure? The lines didn't start appearing on my laptop until it was over 3 1/2 years old and many who are posting here now have machines which aren't that...
Quote: Originally Posted by matchbox2022 I'd be pissed. Believe me I was pissed. Especially given that I had lived with the lines for many months, and was never notified by Dell that there was a recall. I found...
Quote: Originally Posted by palmersquall How hot can the card go before it starts to downgrade performance? Also My cdrom drive isnt working. How do i upgrade the bios using USB? thanks The major problem isn't...
Quote: Originally Posted by jp1886 My video card on my xps gen 2 died a few months back so I replaced it with a ATI x300. After installing the ATI all the artifacts are gone but I still have thin multicolored lines on my...
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