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post #83321 of 90973
1/2/10 at 7:52pm
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Originally Posted by dave-p View Post
Off to do more shopping with the wife, ....I am not going to say what I am thinking lol
She still knows what you are thinking
post #83322 of 90973
1/2/10 at 7:53pm
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Looks around for good aliens?
My luck pp, so far only good Aliens around ... or are you about to prove me wrong?
post #83323 of 90973
1/2/10 at 7:54pm
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Good afternoon, AW. Watching NHL hockey after a nice Mexican lunch.
No "real" Mexican food here either Have to make everything on your own.
post #83324 of 90973
1/2/10 at 8:23pm
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No "real" Mexican food here either Have to make everything on your own.

Do you ever see a time where you will return state side for good ?
post #83325 of 90973
1/3/10 at 5:54am
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Do you ever see a time where you will return state side for good ?
For sure Dave .. but a concrete date, no. I am still working on it, the family insists on it
post #83326 of 90973
1/3/10 at 6:13am
Good evening AW.

I was out earlier and went over to the storage unit that I have and rummaged around and came across the box containing my Area-51 m5500. It's been a long time since I've seen it and couldn't wait to get back and fire it up to see if it's still working. Well, it is. I was worried about an over heating problem that it was having back in CA- It would shut down after an hour's use. Anyway it's still 'kicking it old school' and I am backing up the files now and will install Windows 7 just to see if it makes a difference on this older hardware. If I run into problems, I'll create a thread so that others who may be wondering if they should go to Win 7 on their m5500's might learn from my mistakes.
post #83327 of 90973
1/3/10 at 6:29am
Blaming CA weather for your shutdowns? That is so mean
post #83328 of 90973
1/3/10 at 6:32am
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Blaming CA weather for your shutdowns? That is so mean


No, I think that it might have something to do with Vista Ultimate being too much for the system. I'll see if my theory is correct.
post #83329 of 90973
1/3/10 at 6:41am
Cool. Specs the machine out first
post #83330 of 90973
1/3/10 at 6:45am
I hope that this works, because I really don't want to spend money on replacing the mobo, processor, etc.
post #83331 of 90973
1/3/10 at 7:01am
I am sure it will, with some small tweaking. We are cheering you up.
post #83332 of 90973
1/3/10 at 7:09am
Right now I'm running some system scans before I start installing Win 7. So far so good. The backup took a little longer than I thought- It's amazing how much data I accumulated on that laptop.
post #83333 of 90973
1/3/10 at 7:13am
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Right now I'm running some system scans before I start installing Win 7. So far so good. The backup took a little longer than I thought- It's amazing how much data I accumulated on that laptop.
I wonder how, and I won't ask what and where ...
post #83334 of 90973
1/3/10 at 7:15am
Blue Snow outside the window very early this morning ...

post #83335 of 90973
1/3/10 at 7:17am
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I wonder how, and I won't ask what and where ...
It's a 100GB HDD and it's almost exclusively music and DVD rips.

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Blue Snow outside the window very early this morning ...

That is a really cool pic Q.
post #83336 of 90973
1/3/10 at 7:23am
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It's a 100GB HDD and it's almost exclusively music and DVD rips.
If you say so Boss ...

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That is a really cool pic Q.
It was pure luck of that shot, a few minutes later and I lost the blue hue

post #83337 of 90973
1/3/10 at 8:31am
Hard to say why you lost the blueness.
post #83338 of 90973
1/3/10 at 8:43am
An interesting development in my m5500 shutdown issues: It seems that after installing Windows 7 it still shuts down. Since I happen to have my tool kit with me, I tore it apart and removed the heatsink/fan assembly only to discover that the thermal paste was pretty much gone. Unfortunately I don't have Arctic Silver on hand, but I do have the thermal paste we use on our systems at work. I cleaned off the remnants of the old paste, re-applied some new paste and guess what? So far the m5500 is working like it was new. Now I'm not saying it was a complete success yet (Don't want to jinx myself ) but it's running a lot quieter and hasn't shut down yet.
post #83339 of 90973
1/3/10 at 9:01am
Nice to hear that cali weather was not the culprit of your shutting downs That can be really "blue".

Great work MB, specs the comp and chalk it up as another oldie but goodie for W7
post #83340 of 90973
1/3/10 at 9:23am
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Nice to hear that cali weather was not the culprit of your shutting downs That can be really "blue".

Great work MB, specs the comp and chalk it up as another oldie but goodie for W7
I'm running into one issue, which I'll resolve once I get some sleep: (Kind of tired at 2 am ) My audio isn't working. Driver issue for sure. Now before I go to bed I'm switching from the Intel GMA graphics to the nVidia 6600 just to see what happens. The drivers for it will need to be loaded, plus I want to see what kind of Performance Index Rating I get.
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