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I can't even remember if the white LED should stay lit longer or if its acting normal.

My wife tripped on power cord of my 3.5 year old, pristine Studio 1555 a couple days ago. Today, the power button doesn't work. Almost. I got the laptop to power up a couple times without the battery installed. With it powered on and working, I closed the lid. It immediately cut power. I...

This. Browsing the internet without NoScript is like having unprotected sex with everything that moves in Bangkok. Why risk it?

Weak. It was a win/win situation for everyone else.

I love AMD because they are the only desktop CPUs I've ever bought. I had a 3000+ and then replaced it with an Opteron 165. Man, could you overclock that thing.

I'd love an invite also. Can return Google+ invites if you like. Off to use the LifeHacker idea for now..

Why not just link directly Krebs story? Not saying to skip the link on the hardocp page, but seriously, Mr. Villarreal just summarized someone else's work.

~May15: Ordered Studio 15, ETA June 1 ~May 31: Email arrives: order delayed another week ~June 7: Email: order delayed another week. I cancelled the order because the price had dropped. I placed another order for the exact same config. ETA: Late June Late June: Email arrives: order...

Playing at 3am in a creaky house where everyone is "asleep." while wearing headphones. WTF WAS THAT NOISE. did something in the room just move or was that my imagination. FEAR is my favorite of all time. My roommate actually shat his pants playing FEAR, it's that awesome.

sorry to resurrect this, but if I can't figure anything out before the weekend, my gf is putting it on ebay for 99 cents. c'mon, someone help me save this thing for useful things.

well... my screenname is counting both thumbs so i guess i'm SOL on this technology. damn you mavis beacon for not helping me compensate better!

bump for lack of help... anybody?

well, warranty expired last january and it's my gf's old laptop. trying to figure out if it might be an easy fix so her brother can use it or if there's any ebay value in it. i checked google, but i'm not really coming up with anything useful.

Toshiba Satellite A135 I boot it up, sometimes the touchpad works, sometimes it doesn't. It's sorta luck of the draw when I boot it up whether it'll work or not. Usually, if it's running on battery power it works and when It's plugged in the mouse will just freeze. Sometimes it will move the...

But it worked fine through several reboots before I wiped it. And I've booted it with one of those things connected maybe once but that's all.

Gf just got a brand new Studio XPS1340. First thing, I wiped the hd clean and deleted the recovery partition and reinstalled Vista Home Premium.(64bit). It works like a champ and she loves it. Problem: Whether booting or rebooting, it won't start the first time. It posts just fine and the...

Every update brings it closer. Oh, for the old days...

I have my 7950GT hooked up to our bigscreen TV via s-video cable. Last night I decided to brighten up the picture a little bit by tweaking the brightness and contrast levels while watching a little South Park. After it was over I tried to return the settings to normal, but they won't go. So now...

got mine, one stuck pixel a nice bright red in the upper left corner. boo...

yeah, same here. ordered friday, shipped saturday. fedex says package info received, estimated delivery friday, but nothing else.

yeah, hooked up another PSU, purred to life no problem. Ordered a 650W Seasonic from the egg, arrives tomorrow.

yeah, i pretty much run it 24/7 since i bought it, which is about 3 years now. i pulled it out of the case, same story. unplugged all nonessential stuff, same thing. vacuumed all the dust off it and reseated video card and RAM, still no joy. will try a new PSU tonight after the family goes to bed.

I have an Enermax 535W PSU. I forget the exact model number, but I'm pretty sure they only made one 535. Just got home from college where I never, ever shutdown/restart my computer. Hooked it up here at the house, press the power button, the fans spin a couple revolutions at most and then...

Windows Pussy Edition

I take it you've never used two monitors before, have you? Try it. I've got a 19" and 17" right now and wouldn't give up the second monitor unless it was for a bigger one. I borrowed a couple of 22"'s over spring break though and that was incredible. Bigger screen + more screens = WIN.

it's BTX...

got my email last night. score.

A good way to pick 20 winners would be me + the 19 people before me. Sounds fair to me.

You play WoW too, don't you? /leaving thread

There's a key point that you missed though. It was just a game. I'm not justifying all actions on the internet with this statement, but you are being pretty harsh towards someone's opinion about a specific circumstance. If they wanted to show respect for the dead, try should have attended the...

holy crap, break out the tinfoil, the aliens are coming!

What's the price on the 4000+ CPU?

Just going to throw in my $0.02. I'd go for a different case, especially if it's a Lian-Li like someone above me suggest. Those Thermaltake cases might look sick to you right now in pictures, but believe me, that wears off. I got a Xaser III when I built my first computer and I still have that...

Same here. I figured since it was running and they were sending me emails that it was working properly. I hope that doesn't mean 3 months starts today.

Ok, I managed to install vista back on a new hardrive and i've decided that the nvidia sata controller is dead. the silicon controller is still working though. the hard drives show up in windows just fine, but still nothing if i try to boot from it. they just don't show up?!? i'm going to try...

UBCD failed... I have no idea why it won't work.

Great. I just put my boot disk into another comp, recognized it without a problem. I'm downloading Ultimate Boot CD now, hopefully there's a helpful tool on there? Been running memtest for the last 45 minutes just for fun, hasn't shown anything yet.

also tried running w/o overclock and (separately) unplugged CD-ROM. same error still. When I've tried to repair the installation w/o selecting a Vista installation (because it doesn't show up), it runs for awhile and then says it can't fix it. It does show a log of the tests it ran and it looks...

Disk not found. Error Code 0120. next...?

no RAID within miles of this computer. ever.