Posts by Obmij

My girlfriend's oldie 9200 has been working fine until this morning. I booted it and it got past the BIOS screen, but then I heard some bizarre noises followed by the BIOS beeping 6 times in a quick burst and the laptop froze in a...

Quote: Originally Posted by matchbox2022 Haha, how does stocks treat you? pretty good? any advice? it's totally midnight here. bout to sleep and do lab shat tommorow! Unfortunately, right now it's tough. ...

Quote: Originally Posted by matchbox2022 mhm! is it morning time overthere in thailand? As I type this it is 1:27 PM. There is no daylight savings time here so we're 12 hours ahead of Eastern Standard time. I...

Quote: Originally Posted by matchbox2022 ...Also those utilities don't downclock ram, only the cpu. for ram.....ummm, use the bios :P or for vram just use rivatuner, but im sure u know that already. :P...

Yes, I'm absolutely positive. The faster spec'd memory was one of the selling points Nvidia touted during the FX3500m introduction over the FX2500m way back in 2006. Memory was also a lower power spec. Been so long now I'm not sure...

Quote: Originally Posted by matchbox2022 They are physically NO different cards. One is just clocked higher, if you have powermiser on they'll have identical idle temps. PS. mine WITH powermiser idle is at 43C and...

@matchbox2022, Excellent! I just tried it and it works. I'm going to try it on my girlfriends 9200. It would be great to have access to all of the hidden bios functions. Too bad a disgruntled Dell tech support droid hasn't yet posted...

Quote: Originally Posted by qhn This still holds true with "all" Dell? Not sure, since this seems to be an undocumented bios function. I believe it works on an M1710, because I think I tried it...

Quote: Originally Posted by big_john Then - whamo - major screen issues. From my research it would appear that I am another in the long line of blown video cards. Often, when a video card starts to have...

@matchbox2022, Fn+z is indeed a hidden Dell bios function. Why Dell chose to keep it a secret is beyond me. It not only resets the temp sensor reading, but also successive key presses manually cycle the fan speeds. If you have the...