Posts by millers

I know powernotebooks.com does not recommend using any bios updates or drivers for the compal until they have approved them and put them on their site, so I think I will wait for their ok.

The DVD drive pops out via a switch as well, which was nice as it allowed me to send just the DVD in for warranty and not the whole notebook.

Rincewind, When my DVD rom drive spins it continuously clicks and makes scratchy noises, and every few seconds you can feel a "clunk" in the laptop from the DVD drive. Could this be caused by a virus? Not sure how else I...

My copy of XP is bootable, but it won't go to the DOS command. Turns out my vendor thinks it is a faulty DVD drive, so that is going back tomorrow on warranty. However, the Microsoft says it could be a faulty DVD drive or a faulty...

Well, I have not written my review on my new compal56 yet, as I have not had it running successfully for more than a day. The initial install went fine, I got XP home on the computer, turned on the firewall, and went to download my...

I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but I am having nothing but trouble getting my Compal 56 to function on the internet. I have no problem connecting to the net, but it is so slow and hangs so often that I cannot successfully...

I told the lady at the border crossing I had a notebook to claim. She asked me if I knew of any mail boxes north of Whitefish Montana (she was kind of a bitch). I explained why I picked it up in the states (to save on brokerage...

Rincewind, Does the laptop "click" into the cooler, ie. are the two held together somehow, or does it just sit on top of it?

According to customs you should. All the UPS expedited service does (apparently, I did not use it so cannot say for sure) is include the brokerage fee in their charge. So you don't pay for a brokerage company to get the package into...

Turanuk: wrong. If you bring it across the border and do not pay sales taxes the notebook is in the country illegally. To do it properly you need to claim it at the border and pay the necessary taxes. There are no duties on computers,...