Posts by 86z28iroc-z

I just got my replacement laptop from dell about a week ago, and out of the blue, every once and awhile, my laptop will tell me that I have no system battery, that it's only running on AC power....it does it in xp and vista. What's the...

Well i've been using A13 for about a week now...should I go back to A12?? I've had no problem at all with it running under A13....if it's running fine now, shouldn't it be fine for good? Don't want a 3 week old paper weight...

Now the terrorist has threats....sounds like a hijacking to me. lol, i'm just yanking your chain, sheesh, no need to get hostile... :-)

Hmm....hijacked

I have vista set to connect to my wireless network automatically whenever it is in range. And whenever I start up my computer, it takes vista at least 1 minute for it to actually find and connect to the network...is there some setting...

Well, I just figured out how to get ik8fangui to play nicely with vista, I ended up disabling hardware sensor support. I guess the 6400 isn't supported, even though, if you enable it it says that it does work. I loaded up the older...

I have duel booted xp and vista, and I did some testing, and my battery life actually didn't change much, it's either about the same, or maybe has gone up a bit, and I disabled aero, under normal use, my battery life went up by maybe a...

I just installed vista 32bit home premium, and when my computer is just sitting here idling, Core Temp shows each core about about 50 C doesn't that seem a little high to you? It even reaches up to mid 60's before the fan kicks...

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, just dual boot it and walla, I missed the cutoff on getting vista from the factory, so I was shipped out with xp home, and was just going to dual boot with vista, I just didn't quite understand the whole...

Quote: Originally Posted by LarryC I did not waste money on it. That's exactly what i'm talking about. How is it wasting your money if in 6 months or so, assuming it's all "caught up" how are you...