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My 3ware PATA RAID card.

I wish I could get 3-4 PATA 750s...

Not gonna happen. The part that is scratched is the front polarizer of the LCD itself. You can't replace it yourself, and you could buy several of them for what you could get a company to replace the front polarizer for.

Sounds like the powersupply can't deliver enough juice.

Mine has a Mr. Fusion!

I've used cable select for years, and haven't any issues. I never used to use it, but it seems to work pretty well with the 80pin ATA-66/100 era cables and drives.

I don't know, I haven't let the update install except on my notebook which is completely legit. I have a legal copy or two of XP, but I used XP corporate with a VLK to avoid activation hassles on my other PCs. I might actually break down and get them all nice a legal (with the purchased copies...

Interesting... The copy of XP Media Center that came with my Dell installed on another non-dell PC without asking for a key, but wanted to be activated after install. On my Dell (that shipped with it), it installed without asking for a key and never prompted for activation.

It was a pretty recent copy. I got it a few months ago with my new Dell notebook.

I was able to install a Dell version of XP Media Center on a non-Dell PC without issue, however it wanted to be activated, whereas on the Dell PC it did not ask to be activated. I didn't bother to try to activate it though. On another note, does a normal retail copy of XP ask for the CD Key...

I agree 100% on the BBB. If you have a problem with Best Buy, for example, and complain to the BBB, they will contact Best Buy for a response, who also by the way helps support the BBB (as all their members do). Best Buy tells the BBB that, "We've since come to a satisfactory resolution with...

That seems a bit hard to believe, but I suppose it's possible.

Do you really think politicians know any better what they're doing on other issues either? I firmly believe they're just as ignorant on nearly everything.

Except the rebate is only supposed to be for people who went on the Active Storage Tour. However, for the price of a stamp I did send in the rebate, but I don't think I'll get it.

Last week it was $169.99 with free shipping. I was able to get one of the 400's for $109.99 though.

That doesn't seem very MS like... I used that program yesterday at work to retrieve the company's Volume License Key for some lab PCs. It's absurd that we're supposed to buy individual copies of Windows XP when the company has a site license just because we don't want their IT department...

Does anyone actually still use the analog output on video cards? As long as you're using DVI pretty much all the cards are going to have identical image quality. The last few nVidia cards I've used have had good analog outputs as well.

Exactly... Why would anyone be foolish enough to believe that Intel could make a better CPU than AMD... :eekers: Oh wait... they have before... :oops:

I prefer to buy used CDs and and rip my own mp3s. It's cheaper than buying things from Apple ITMS, and it's higher quality. Plus, it's absolutely legal.

Just FYI, Windows XP doesn't like CF cards that aren't "fixed disk" very much.

I heard that people just use the dishwasher to keep their "toys" clean.

Well, the good news is that this moron is posting in a lossless format so you can at least turn them into something acceptable without a quality loss.

Karl Rove has been so busy listening in on Americans phone calls to their grandmothers that he hasn't had a chance to fire up the weather machine yet. Once Hayden gets approved to the CIA, Karl will be back to his hurricane making ways!

What capacity, and how much was it?

Well... I got my B153 yesterday. I really like it. It seems to have excellent sound quality and the features are just what I was looking for.

They're already both the SATA and PATA version at Newegg. SATA $499.99 PATA $534.99

You could use Trillian.

I think I found the player to address most of the complaints in my original post. The MobiBLU B153. It has 2GB capacity, 153 hour battery life, and no frilly video support, and it only costs $129.99 direct from MobiBLU America. English Review at DAPreview.net I found a really, really good...

Dell US won't ship internationally. However, you could probably find someone on e-bay selling a new E1505 with a similar configuration for similar prices who will ship internationally.

I've taken apart quite a few laptop LCD modules at work to use the LCD glass in a custom bezel with our own backlight, so I'm fairly comfortable with having them open. Some of the size of the electronics and the flat cables they're using in them makes them look quite fragile and it can be a...

Well, I was able to get it back together and working as good as before it was dropped for $98.15 in parts. The LCD was a bigger pain than I thought it would be. From the description in the auction I thought the display had a bad inverter, but it turned out that it had a bad CCFL tube in the...

Added my name...

On another note, it looks like I was able to scavenge all the parts I need to fix my 8600 for less than $100 (assuming nothing gets damaged in shipping). I think the soon to be working perfectly screen for $1 has to be my crowning accomplishment...

The machine survived for about 1 hour before I deleted the partitions form the HD and started over. I started trying to uninstall things and decided it wasn't worth the effort. It's now a lot faster starting up, and it uses a lot less memory just sitting there. Tomorrow I get my two 1GB...

My E1505 is supposed to come tomorrow (basically a 6400). Did the de-crapifier do a good job getting all the stuff? I haven't decided it I'm going to format it and install over it (XP Media Center), or try to de-crapify it. If I re-install XP Media Center will I have to deal with Windows...

I looked around a lot and ended up getting 2 1GB Transcend pc2-5300 SO-DIMMs from Newegg.

Anyone seen any good deals on good deals on these memory sticks? Best I'ves seen is about $85 after shipping from Newegg.

Pretty much all Ti rings are made on a lathe, where as most other types of jewelry rings are cast in a mold.

Now, if only I can figure out if the E1505 can actually support 667Mhz Memory, or not. I want to get 2 1GB DDR2 SO-DIMMS for it, but I don't want to spend the extra for the 667Mhz memory unless it can take advantage of it.

I just got in on one of those "deals" just yesterday through the Dell Employee Purchase Program... - Inspiron E1505, Intel Core Duo T2400 (2MB/1.83GHz/667MHz) - 15.4 Inch UltraSharp TrueLife Wide-screen WSXGA+ - 512MB, DDR2, 533MHz 1 Dimm - 128MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1300 HyperMemory - 80GB...

Odds are that jeweler didn't sell Ti, so he wanted to talk your relative out of it, or the jeweler was simply uninformed.

Why's that? He wanted it to fall off all the time?

But it's so heavy so it's must be special... :roll:

Not true... I have a Titanium wedding ring on my finger right now. I got it from http://www.boonerings.com/. He has a specific section in his FAQ about cutting the ring off in an accident.

I think I did. :D - Inspiron E1505, Intel Core Duoprocessor T2400 (2MB/1.83GHz/667MHz) - 15.4 Inch UltraSharp TrueLife Wide-screen WSXGA+ - 512MB, DDR2, 533MHz 1 Dimm - 128MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1300 HyperMemory - 80GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive - Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 -...

I gave up and bought a new Inspiron E1505. With the 40% coupon today, and the 12% off EPP discount (through work) and a $50 coupon I had, I just couldn't say no.

I might have to do that. It looks like people are getting stupid on "dead" 8600's on e-bay. A dead one without a HD went for $450 shipped today. Oddly enough (or maybe not), you can get a working used one for ~$50 more.

Does anyone have any ideas where I can buy a dead Dell Inspiron 8600? I see two of them on e-bay, and I'm watching them, but I wondered if you clever folk knew of another place I could maybe get one. The short story is that my laptop had a run in with the ground, and it needs a new LCD...

I think I'm just going to give up and start using my iRiver iHP-140 with the new shiny Rockbox firmware. :D

Probably not. Another "warming" attempt Now if only the never powered on OLEDs would disappear for an always on powermizerly LCD display things would be complete.