Posts by duckpuppy

Quote: Originally Posted by qhn You should be able to get any external USB housing for SATA drive and you are good to go. eBay? cheers ... Current SATA enclosures have the standard SATA interface...

My 9750 died - it appeared to be video card related. When I opened the compartment to see if it needed reseated, it was completely loose. It appears that the posts that hold the screws from the heat sink to the motherboard have...

My 9750 has started having a new issue when booting... all the indicator lights blink together (1 second on, 1 second off, steady blink, all three of them) while XP is booting, then the laptop powers off. This happens if the battery is...

Wow... I'll have to check the SATA cable. My 9750 has ALWAYS done that, from first boot out of the box. If I let it go on long enough, it will EVENTUALLY boot successfully - most of the time. I've even posted here (TWICE, even, with...

I assume that no one else sees this behavior? If not, I'd love to know - that would indicate that I should see about sending the laptop in.

Ok, I've sorted the drive issue out in my head, and realize I also described it poorly above. The hard drive is the master drive on the primary channel of the "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller"... should that be a...

Actually, that's what I mentioned in the article... the HD is primary on one controller, and the DVD drive is secondary on the OTHER controller, though the HD is SATA, not IDE (or at least I didn't think I had an IDE option when I...

When I power on the laptop, it sometimes "hiccups" 2-6 times... by this I mean the hard drive light blinks, the DVD drive motor grinds (drive seek), then I hear a slight "pop" from the speakers as if they were...