Posts by bawalker

Actually it's a Celeron M 380 (SL8MN). I had to check it to be double sure. However, I am interested in doing the pin-mod with a Pentium processor as I saw others doing with the A105 series since the prices for those on eBay are...

It's a Toshiba Part Number: v000068070 It has the ATI IXP 450 chipset with the Radeon Xpress 200M graphics onboard chipset. The CPU it came with was a stock Celeron D 1.6ghz.

Hello all, I came across a free A105-S101 system that a business was literally throwing out and I snagged it and finally had a chance to sit down and open it up. Of course discovering it had a Celeron M 1.6ghz in it. However just like...

Thanks, I was afraid I'd have to get a new cable. Not a big deal, just a matter of ordering it on ebay and waiting a week or so. Thanks! I'll post the results on here later.

Also one thing I forgot to mention. When having either the new or old inverter plugged in and having an external monitor plugged in, I could hit the FN key combo and switch between screens just fine. So if the laptop LCD backlight...

Here's an update on my situation... After sitting there disassembling the screen bezel and accessing the LCD cable & inverter, the LCD screen seemed to come on and stay on. It was still touch and go where it would flicker, go off,...

Hello all, First off before I get into the problem I want to say that I am an experienced computer technician having worked on hundreds of laptops in the past. So I'm very familiar with the problems and solutions for them. I just...

Hello all, I have a Sony Viao VGN-S150 here that is having a very weird and intermittent video problem. Well at first I thought it was video. There would be times where I'd simply reboot the notebook and no video. No "viao"...

Yup, the power supply showed up and it's working BEAUTIFULLY!

Hey all, I got my 9300 working FLAWLESSLY! It turns out the 6800 appearantly was a bad card because I found a used 7800GTX on ebay for under $300 and snagged it. I stuck it in, and instant working system. Does anyone know why the...