Recent content by Jake Joris

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    Macbook or lenovo?

    which one do you recommend: 4gb or 8gb ram model?
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    Macbook or lenovo?

    I have a lenovo thinkpad yoga 260, but as I know these have a huge motherboard defect, so i plan to sell mine. I looked arround the internet and saw that i could buy: thinkpad x240, t440, t440s, t450, t460 or macbook air 2012, 2013, 2014. I had thin and light laptops for couple of years now, and...
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    [SOLVED] Dell Latitude E6440 Overheating

    Thanks for the reply, i have changed the thermal paste, but i found that heatsink at one end is 90'c and at the other 40'c, so i checked the e6540 and heatsink temps were 70'c at one end and 60'c at the other end during aida64 test. So i think that the e6440 has a bad heatsink. And BTW 95'c is...
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    [SOLVED] Dell Latitude E6440 Overheating

    hi, i have bought a second hand dell e6440 laptop. I did some tests and everything seemed fine. So i decided to test the cpu using aida64, and before starting the stress test temps were about 70-80'c. Just a minute after i ran it the cpu jumped to 95'c and it showed overheating detected 10-25%...
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    [SOLVED] Can't detect internet and USB ports after reformat Windows 7

    download and install windows 7 for here: https://softlay.net/operating-system/windows-7-ultimate-full-version-free-download-iso-32-64-bit.html And uses rufus here: https://rufus.ie/ to burn iso onto the usb.
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    [SOLVED] lekage around li-ion battery

    Hello, today I opened my ThinkPad T60 battery pack and I noticed brownish stuff under li-ion heat shrink. Should I throw the battery away?
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    [SOLVED] Leaked batteries from 1994 laptop

    hello, a weak ago i received toshiba laptop from around 1994. And i noticed that the main and resume batteries have leaked. I believe the main battery is either nimh or nicd. The resume battery is made from 6 1.5v nimh or nicd coin cells. I red somewhere that the nicd battery leaked substance...
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    [SOLVED] battery for thinkpad x61s

    Thanks for the reply, but these ones are for x61, because x61s needs slim batteries. thats how a slim battery looks like: http://www.skytech.lt/images/large/38/2334538.jpg Slim batteries don't have two screw holes and they are a little bit wider. Thick battery will up lift my laptop up by...
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    [SOLVED] battery for thinkpad x61s

    thanks for the reply, but i tired searching for battery fru number and couldn't find anything. My battery FRU 42T5247
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    [SOLVED] Upgrades for thinkpad x61s

    Thats normal for all lenovo laptops. If you run the laptop without the battery you will need a 90w power adapter.
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    [SOLVED] Upgrades for thinkpad x61s

    Thanks for the reply, without the battery laptop cpu throttles down to 800mhz.
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    Question Macbook a1278 reaches 99c

    Before thermal paste change I was seeing temps over 85c idle now - 50-60c idle. I applied enough thermal paste and i tightened the screws pretty well. I think the cause could be the heatsink or the cpu overvolting somehow.
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    Question burning oil inside my laptop.

    i have a thinkpad x61s and fans are quite rare. There is no visible oil anywhere, but when the laptop heats up i have to open my room windows because the smell is awful. The oil was spilled inside the chassis not on the fan.
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    Question BIOS detects bootable USB drive but restarts after every boot attempt

    There could be couple causes. usb is formatted as gpt and your motherboard doesn"t support uefi bios. usb is formatted as fat32, not all motherboards could boot from fat32 usb flash drive. windows installer is missing some files Try to make new usb installer using rufus and try set gpt to mbr
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    Question Help...please! new CPU computer powers off after few seconds

    not all motherboards accept core 2 quads. modified x5460 to fit lga 775 is the same as core 2 quad but maybe a bit faster.