Posts by arcorl

you can ghost your orginal laptop drive to an external usb or ieee drive. Just use ghost to image drive to a file locaed on the usb drive. You can also retore the image the same way. If you need help making the boot disk let me know.

On media direct 3 it requires the partition to boot with booting the os. The only way I know of configuring it is to run the cd before installing the os. It writes files to the fat partition be forinstalling the os.

I have a d820 - great notebook, the d620 is a great too. I have used the d620. The screen is a little small for me. The nvs 120 card is shared memory with your system RAM 1/2 video and 1/2 RAM. you can not add this video card at a...

i think this is what you are talking about: http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...rd.htm#1111863 If not here is the service manual: http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...r/sm/index.htm

I gave up on the dual boot and swap my drives. I have one drive with vista and one with xp on my notebook. Some pretty good reading: http://www.notebookforums.com/forum289.html

IMHO, i would burn your pictures to a CD.

7950 desktop card - yes has two videos out, notebook 7950 - no has one video out. Note sure what you mean by inline?

have you tried the quick restore on bootup?

mine down throttles at 104, on I8KFanGui i avgerage temp about 112 with default settings.

m1710 with 7950 I get 3.5 + hours using the default nvidia powermizer settings.