Recent content by phil42

please remember! the agencies that monitor these services operate procatively. any of these programs could be trojans.

Send it back, the sooner the better. Rip-off artists have been selling bum ram since forever. Get as much of your money back as fast as you can and buy some decent ram.

If it were a faulty socket it would have to be something that shows up with a 1G DIMM but not a 512M DIMM.

Could you name a few of those manufacturers? I'd like to check that out.

WELL DUH? Would I have gone to the trouble of looking this up if it had been running properly?

Check http://photos.yahoo.com/pwl42 then check Micron Technology. Please tell me if this is not a DDR333 chip on a DDR400 DIMM.

Mine slid out easily, sorry to hear about yours. I hope a broken bezel is not too large a price to pay for restoring usability to your laptop.

I am deeply indebted to you for finding this.

You don't need an intact OS to boot from a floppy.

I would have been tempted to cut an opening in the silver case part and to try to solder it through the hole. But, with my luck, there would probably be something important right there.

Don't blame me! The only reason I found out about the 3 screws holding the top strip is that I noticed that one of them was about to break.

The bottom covers can be removed in 3 pieces (counting the CD/DVD drive and not counting the memory cover, hard disk, battery, etc.). 1. Remove the CD/DVD drive ( 2 screws, it slides out of the side). 2. Remove the smaller bottom cover over the processor/fan. 3. Remove the large...

Don't forget to remove the three screws on the bottom of the computer that hold that strip on.