Posts by [Daisuke]

As you may know, from the other thread I poste not too long ago, I've been restoring a water damaged laptop. Previously, on first tests, I was running from just the power cable, and as such, had not tested the battery as it was assumed...

Quote: Originally Posted by sakor1 Yes. Plus, I was going to suggest that if you were really worried about it, you could install i8kfanGUI and take direct control of the fans in Windows so you wouldn't have to worry...

Ok, I let it run a little longer this time, and when I pressed f12 it worked, slowly. then it redirected me to the f2 setup. After this it told me the harddrive was going to have a SMART failure soon. Press f1 to continue. It then...

I've been brave enough to let it run for a few seconds after the fan stops, and it doesn't get past the f2/f12 screen as it boots up. While the fan just moves air off the heatsink, I don't want to risk damaging the chip. Also, I have...

Hi all. I've had an old waterdamaged Inspiron 1000 for about a year and a half or so, not having had the time to replace the motherboard and fix it. But my girlfriend is looking to get a laptop, and she's not a heavy user, so I thought...

Thanks, I'll try that tomorrow, it's 3:25 am here now, I hope it works.

Can you instruct me as to how to do that? The fact that it only sometimes boots up to that tells me that there is another problem somewhere, probably on the motherboard.

There was a 7 day warranty with them. ::EDIT:: As a further note, I left it off for several hours, then tried to turn it back on again. This resulted in it getting past the POST and coming to a screen saying htat a file was corrupt,...

I went out today, with my laptop running on my desk, the lid shut. I have to say, my room gets a little warm, as it's in the sun for most of the day, but the laptop was out of direct sunlight. I returned, and opened up the lid, and...