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Quote: Originally Posted by Evil Juggalo Yeah.. im hoping they are the Samsung Spinpoint M1's.. Prolly not tho.. I just choose the 80gb hdd for now and will buy the Spinpoints when they are available.. The...

"Can an external USB hard drive work as a hard drive?" Yes, but more than likely you won't be able to boot from it. You can use it as a data hard drive. "Can I load a game onto the external drive and run it from the...

I think by default you get a 1 yr. warranty. According to your tag line you're still covered. I don't think as5 would kill your warranty. Call AW TS and let them walk you through the troubleshooting phase. They are probably going to tell...

http://www.mxm-upgrade.com/ sells some, but you currently have the latest MXM card for the m5550.

Have you recently re-partitioned your hard drive? Quote: Originally Posted by warhead56k I have comcast cable. And Im 100 percent sure its not the internet. It's not the ram either because I always have atleast 1 gig...

To clarify, I'm talking about the internal boot drive!

For those who have a SATA drive, you can now upgrade to a larger one. I just snagged a 250GB from Alienware. The 250GB is a 5400 RPM drive. I'm ok with that. They are also offering a 200GB 7200 RPM SATA drive. WooHoo!

Alienware Tech Support?

If you are referring to the USB port on the right side of the system, yes i have the same issue. Best i remember it's always done that. A reboot fixes it. It's never been a big deal to me since the ones on the left always work correctly.

I don't have CoD2 but i do have the UXGA. Here are my 3DMark06 scores in different modes using the defaults and XP Pro: 640x480 : 3321 800x600 : 2924 1024x768 : 2429 1280x1024 : 1910 1600x1200 : 1540 1920x1200 : 1368 Hope this helps.