Posts by leftbldg

Well, I didn't really solve the issue, but I did rollback with System Restore to the day before I installed the latest Windows patch to DirectX 9. I'm thinking that might be where the problem started. Got rid of the display problems...

I'm getting nasty black and weird-colored pixels on DVD playback (PowerDVD)and vertical dotted lines in various display fields, including the background of the BIOS splash screen. The DVD/mpg playback artifacts seem to pulse at around...

Quote: Originally Posted by BigB18 How do you take it out of battery save mode? Open Control Panel (or is it Settings in XP--I forget), Power Management. There are several pre-configured power management...

Any new developments on this issue? Someone in another thread said you could work around the power draw issue by dimming the screen and underclocking the CPU with clockgen? Anyone know how far to underclock to drop consumption by 20W?...

Anyone else seen this? If I use the scroll area of the Synaptics touchpad the scroll inputs slow way down and lag for many, many seconds. Looks like the scroll commands are queueing behind some CPU-intensive process. Any ideas?

-Bump- I've noticed the same thing with mine, but sporadically.

Quote: Originally Posted by shaggy2003 To answer the next persons question, use the clockgen CG-ICS950403. I downloaded both ICS950403 and ICS950405, because when I run CPU-Z (Mainboard tab), it tells me the...

I doubt Best Buy would offer a HD upgrade on the 6809, for warranty reasons alone. If you are up to doing the upgrade yourself: 5400rpm drives are easy to find; the 7k60 is a little harder to track down. To find one, see this...

BTW, it seems to me that the 7k60 runs quieter, too.

If you plan to buy the BB ESP you need not worry about dead pixels--they claim that under the plan they will replace a unit with even ONE dead pixel. If you're not getting the ESP, try to find a cool sales guy.