Posts by Orion ZyGarian

1) Do you currently own an SSD? Are you planning on purchasing one or more in the near future? I do not, and I would love one if they were affordable. 2) If you’re planning on purchasing an SSD, which brand(s) are you considering and...

A quick search yields that I and everyone else with this sweet laptop are having the same battery problems. Type KD476 9 cell 85Whr etc. CLIFFNOTES: Should I just get a new battery and deal with it? My mom has a 6000 and oddly...

I've searched around quite a bit and it seems that the X1400 is the best vid card that will work in an E1505. I just wanted to confirm this and kick myself for getting a 7300 because I thought it was better. Anyways I bought...

I decided just to get two 1 GB sticks from Newegg and they are working excellently...my Vista idles now at 20-30% lower. Kinda hoped for more...time to check out what it can do though....

I've finally tired off Vista and how it sucks up all of my ram when I try to do anything...I need more than my 1 GB. Currently I have 2 x 512s in there from the factory, and I figure its pretty much just as cheap to get 1x2GB as it is...

Wow, okay this is awesome. A Dell rep saw my post here and offered a new keyboard...I gave him my service tag # and he sent me my brand new keyboard under warranty free of charge! He was real nice and cool about it...I barely had to...

I still have the default 1 year warranty, though it doesnt have "At-Home" service. XPS systems have a little more indepth standard warranty too IIRC. Thanks though, I didnt want to send my computer in and it sounds like...

So yeah, out of nowhere my enter key just comes loose one day...no biggy, being very much a hands-on guy (I'm a BMW Technician) I figure out how it was put on and put it back. Not quite a week later, it starts to come loose again and...

Yeah I was going to say that...not so much the vapor form of it not being conductive, but that it probably spikes the amperage up too much and kills it that way.

Not as long as it stays in a sealed environment in the plastic bag