Posts by dgcaste

Take off the heat sink Take off the thermal paste Turn your kitchen oven on 385F and wait until it's hot Put the card in for 9 minutes Take it out, let it cool for 30. Your card will probably be working now. I did this yesterday with...

Yes I absolutely did mean that. Sorry for the confusion

I guess the suggestion depends on what you use your laptop for. If you're a gamer, swapping the 7800gtx for anything else will cost you in frames. Also considering that the ebay price for the 6800 vanilla and GTX is not very low either,...

I'm attempting to upgrade my wife's 9400/e1705 but it's been so long since I gave a damn about mobile CPU's that I've forgotten which ones will fit and which ones won't. I know she has a core solo 1.66 yonah, and I know it can fit...

Got OSX 10.5.6 installed on my 9300 with the 7800gtx mod. everything is working except wifi on the 2915abg, which only connects to unsecured networks, but I set my router to only allow certain mac addresses. But as far as video accel,...

Anyone know how to do boot a computer through ethernet? What kind of software do I have to install on the host computer so I can boot through ethernet on my inspiron 5100?

you can look up the cards on ebay by part number: 6800 go: w5373 6800 ultra go: c5846 7800 gtx go: hf594 (best one by far, look at my sig!) it plays COD4 and TF2 perfectly at relatively high settings (no shadows though), the spore...

Download the most recent drivers for the XPS M1710 for the 7900/7950GTX, they're the ones in my sig, and use the latest inf available from laptopvideo2go (it's not the same version, my drivers are in the 170's and the inf is in the 150's...

Quote: Originally Posted by InspiredE1705 Gee, I never knew expresscard was useful... thought it was a dead interface. Expresscard is the most recent of the laptop attachments, PCMCIA was the dead one and so was...

This is what my parts list reads from support.dell.com (for my i9300) WC004HARD DRIVE..., 80G, 9.5, 7.2K, Serial ATA..., HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES..., MORAGA PLUS... Is it really a SATA drive? I've always heard the i9.3ks...