Posts by theoak

beaviskob1, I tried kanotix on your recommend some time back and was pleased (I have an emachines m6805). Does this Myahos run well on this laptop, or do you now use another laptop? (I am currently running Suse 9.3 since that is rock...

Great buy!! Seagate drives used to come with a utility CD that would let you clone your old drive onto a new one. (You probably will need an external drive enclosure to do that.) To download DiscWizard go...

I have had the new 512 MB memory stick in for over 2 years, and only in the last several months did the auto shutdown problem happen. I think it was the dried out thermal paste not conducting heat away from the cpu that caused my...

6 days since changing my cpu thermal compound, and no auto shutdown so far. Fan runs less too.

I am currently running Suse 9.3 (64 bit) on my emachines m6805 laptop. This is the ONLY distro (so far) to work with all of my hardware, and be stable. So I downloaded Suse 10.1 (also 64 bit) thinking it will be improved. I have...

I don't guess there is a virtualization program that will let me install OSX on a x86 laptop?

My thermal paste was not that bad, but did have some dried chips. It also had a 1" x 1" piece of metal foil between the thermal pad and the cpu. I'm not sure if that should have been there. It reminds me of the tab you are...

Well, I finally did as others on this forum suggested. Even though I truly feel end users should not be expected to do it, I removed the battery, pushed the power button to discharge any remaining power, removed the heatsink from the...

Does anyone know if this Targus bios upgrade fixes the random auto shutdown problem in emachines m68XX's?

Quote: Originally Posted by karlee823 My M6805 laptop shuts off for no reason Welcome to the club. Check out the thread below this one called " M6809 on battery sometimes just shuts down". You...