Posts by theoak

It's been about 5 months or so since my last post (I think). Back in Feb 2007, I wrote about how I put a copper shim between the cpu die and the heatsink (I had done that several months before I posted), and my oem A/C adapter finally...

I have replaced the LCD on my Inspiron 8500 with a WUXGA LCD display bought from eBay. It works fine, but I notice the inverter feels rather warm. I did not notice this before the old LCD went bad, but I never really felt the bottom of...

Well I have installed the desktop version (7.3 using the link you posted earlier for common vista 32-bit drivers)(http://www.notebookforums.com/post2560837-21.html) and it worked!! I have not been able to get the mobility version to work...

oh nothing! (Clicked on submit, and thought the previous post was lost.)

qhn: I think I may know why some of us get the video drivers to work and some do not. When selecting the driver from ATI/AMD do you click on the mobility radeon 9600 driver? Or do you use the desktop radeon 9600 driver? I have been...

angeldescalso, I am very sorry, but I have accidentally misled you. The battery in my m6805 has no button and leds to show the charge of the battery. That was my old laptop. But if the A/C adapter is bad, the battery won't charge and...

Try removing your battery and pushing the button that gives a readout of the charge on the battery. I think it's like 5 green leds. If you get no lights, your battery is not charging. If battery is not charging, you may have a bad A/C...

qhn, What is your Graphics subscore under the Windows Experience Index using the ATI drivers? With RC1 and default video drivers, I got 3.1 subscore. With RC2 and default drivers I get 3.3. I know that you said there is a discernible...

I have a theory about this thermal compound problem. I got to thinking, how can the thermal paste form scales? It should be so thin that even if it dries out it is too thin to form scales. But as I have seen in pictures posted here, and...

Well, I've installed RC2 (thanks qhn). It is much snappier than RC1. So much so that I've ordered a real version of Vista Home Premium from Newegg. One problem that I have had is the ATI Vista drivers (both version 7.1 and 7.2) and...