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You seem to be eliminating all your options. Looks like you're either gonna have to give in to something you don't want, or sell.

I'm in the same boat, and this chipset looks to be exactly what I want. Should be interesting to see what comes of it. Edit: It was mentioned on T-Break that Asus and Abit have something for this in the works. Hopefully that will pan out.

Fancy that... I just replaced my 8RDA last week because of the same thing. =((

You don't see too many games with co-op any more. So long as SS2 has co-op like the last two, it'll be a winner.

I can't agree more. I bought an Opti-UPS from the Egg a while back and it's been great. Hard to believe I went for years without one. I never had hardware failure because of it, and if it wasn't for me losing data a third time, I still wouldn't have one.

it sends me to http://link%20depot%20sata%20controller/ when I click on it :o

33k = 33 thousand Ohm

ATX PSU's require a signal from the motherboard (or some sort of other device) in order to turn on. You can short these pins out, or just plug it into the motherboard. If you choose to do the short method, you'll need to place something conductive (e.g. paperclip) between the green-wire pin...

Your link has a problem.

I made my first laptop purchase off of Newegg. I was miserably disappointed with the machine and decided to vote on it (ie, I did not post a review, just the 1-5 star rating). I was the first person to have voted on this particular model (was an Acer Aspire). I gave it 3 stars, which gave it...

I'm agreeing with Vesentac on this one. It really sounds like a motherboard issue.

I could not agree more.

What's your budget for this notebook?

Uniwill 259KOA

lol, adding memory and a hard drive to a CL56 is going to be a lot easier than many other laptops.

The video card is a win, but 300 bucks between the 2.0GHz and the 2.13GHz = sadface :(

I had the same thing happen to me with Acer's tech support. Their charge was 200USD and they wouldn't give a guarantee either. That was on a machine that wasn't even a week old. First time I had ever hung up on someone from any sort of customer support.

Getting sony to believe there's a problem is going to be difficult. GL to you though.

Only on a Sonoma based P-M though. And even then, those are near non-existent. If you were to put it on the existing stock of 855 based P-M's the manufacturer would have to include a PCIE bridge chip, and I don't see that as being too practical in a notebook scenario.

Those hard drive enclosures are one of the best things ever. Saved me a lot of headache quite a few times.

If you could upgrade the processor to the Dothan based Pentium M, I'd do that. It might be a like 50 bucks more but you'll get an extre meg of L2 Cache. Other than that, it looks like a good machine.

This is really interesting. I've said for a while now that I liked the "old newegg" better than the new one. Like before newegg went on this huge ad spree, and the previously mentioned free shipping going to the now $5ish dollars per item. Just this month, I had to RMA something to them...

Could you tell it was there? I want one of these for my new laptop but I'm not sure how much it will bother me.

"bad" customers memo?

I was in your situation a few years ago. I had just gotten into college and had a HUGE print load during the semesters. I ended up getting something that resembles this thing. No one here can answer your question without more information. If your print load is high and you have no...

Nothing but pure gospel right there...

I did diagnostics on CRT monitors in high school, that obviously required opening them. There's a method to go about it. Just popping it open and touching things obviously won't get you very far. In most cases, there's a lot more adjustments available to a tech once you remove the shell...

Their Pentium M G2's are the Mitac 8050.

Mwave CL56 :) Edit: Just noticed they were out of stock :(

If you don't have access to the drive in the RC, it would seem to me that your problem is a bit more complex than just a missing boot loader. Is there anyway for you to verify that partition magic actually did merge the two partitions? (Knoppix CD comes to mind) On another note, I was...

The big OEM's ship nothing but recovery discs, and HP would be one of them. pain in the ass IMO.

Had a friend get one for his IBM off of ebay for 25 bucks. I'd start there. His was doing what yours was and it fixed the problem.

Loaded XP Pro SP1 on the TM and I still have the same problem. Strangely though, on the low CPU speed setting, system properties returns a 195MHz clock speed. Everything else says full though.

MrFoo, are you using service pack 2 on your windowsXP? I've heard some people complain about their notebooks having stopped throttling after the SP2 install. I'm emailing Acer again and asking my message to be forwarded to somewhere who knows what the hell they're doing. I'll post that...

I called Acer today. The guy on the phone (who was a complete moron, btw) walked me through using the program and how to set the slider to low, medium, high and maximum. After about half an hour of my time wasted, he tells me I have to update my program. I proceed to tell him I already did...

Acer's ePower program tells me I'm getting around 5 hours 45 minutes but if I actually time it, I get around 3 hours and 30 minutes.

On a fresh reboot and with almost nothing running in the background, I'm getting 5.7k's in Sandra. I put an extra 512MB of ram in the machine though, I'm not sure if that would affect the scoring any. I sent Acer an email, through their support page, outlining the problem. Hopefully I'll...

Thank you for your reply, MrFoo. I became suspicious about whether Acer’s ePowerManagement program was truly changing the CPU speed when I ran a few benchmarks (using Sisoft Sandra); each at different CPU speed intervals , and all resulted in the same score. From here I downloaded...

No matter what I set the CPU speed to using Acer's ePowerManagement utility, the CPU constantly runs at full speed (in this case 1.4GHz). I have no need to constantly run the processor at full speed and the fan running almost constantly is really beginning to annoy me. Is anyone else having this...

That setup is just screaming for a black, matching optical drive.