Posts by nikhsub1

I had a hunch, a theory if you will. I took my logic board out YET AGAIN... why? To test my theory. First, with my THIN layer of thermal paste, remember I used this special diamond paste which was VERY thick, almost like cold peanut...

Vista works great on my MBP... everything works fine!

Seems temps (idle) are not quite what I originally thought... idle impovement of ~9-12C with load temps better by about 16C. It has finally had time to warm up fully and settle a bit. Perhaps over the next few days it will get better.

Let me start by saying I just bought a brand new, less than a week ago, (from the Apple Store) 17" Santa Rosa MBP with the hi res screen (matte), 160GB 7200 RPM HD, 2.4Ghz CPU and the 256MB 8600 GT. For some more background I am a...

no reason at all... it just uses unnecessary resources. I have my screen go to black after 15mins when plugged in and 5 mins when on battery, no screen saver at all.

Quote: Originally Posted by Lulabby I wonder how much you paid for it? And are you in US or Canada? Cheers. Uh, look in LOCATION underneath his username...

Sounds like perhaps a bad hd or a bunk OS install...

98% that is a ram issue. There should be a minidump error log in your system, check the event viewer and see what it says.

This will speed it up fast, I change this reg entry first thing on all my machines. HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ MenuShowDelay By default, the value is 400. Change this to a smaller value, such as 0, to speed it up.

no it needs to be formatted first d00d.