Posts by mond

I use the iKlear Apple Polish I bought to clean my PowerBook. I keeps the screen nice and shiny and the plastic accents clean. I recommend purchasing the kit that comes with the bottle of fluid + the nice large microfiber cloth.

Thanks, MadMatty. I was about to use PartitionMagic (or whatever it's called now). I guess we can all assume that if HP provides the utility, as long as you made recovery discs, it is perfectly fine to remove the partition!

I'd rather not even waste the space using Acronis (which is the best disk imaging software out there, BTW) to back it up. Will just the DVDs suffice? 10GB is a lot of MP3s!

I just finished making the recovery discs for my dv8000t*. Is it safe to reclaim that HP_RECOVERY partition now or will XP try to access files there periodically to function properly? *Which is a crock of crap, if you ask me. They...

Close -- "Voila". It's French for (roughly) "there it is".

My guess is that disabling SATA in the BIOS makes those drives appear like IDE drives to XP. SATA and SCSI drives require special drivers or the initial boot screen of an XP install will choke saying there's no place to install. Do...

It's late so you'll have to do some legwork, but... You'll need to slipstream the SATA drivers into your XP installation media. Here are a couple of links...

The sound is definitely coming from the brick, though I have heard a buzzing sound from the machine occassionally. Maybe I just need to have them swap out the AC adapter

I'll call HP SHopping here in the next few days and see what they offer over the phone.

I tried my El Cheapo Sony headphones, a pair of Sony earbuds and my iPod headphones. All did the same thing. rokhead -- you should KNOW that the code flows more freely when there's some music! Proton Radio is my choice (from iTunes...