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    Advent 7038 Notebook Nightmare!

    He's already running service pack 2 if you look at the last picture from his post Firstly: you bought an advent :( secondly: it looks like your laptop uses an ATI chipset? that's fairly new so it's likely there would be problems with it, but the problems you're having are I think related...
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    Upgrading an Inspiron 4000!

    I've got the inspiron 4000's latitude equivalent and I'd just like to warn you that spending this much money on this particular laptop might not be worth it. So I'll tell you what would be worth upgrading and what wouldnt. CPU - going from a 650 to a 900 or 800 wont give you much of a...
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    Unlocking pipelines in a 6800 LE

    Why have you disabled one of the pipeline quads that wasnt hardware masked? that was one of the good ones, you want to try enabling/disabling the lower two that are hardware masked.
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    t22 password boot problem

    Well you're thinking of it all wrong, since it's a legitimately owned laptop and not a stolen one, isn't it even more stupid for the owner to have put a password on it and forgotten it? Really the only way you're going to get it working is by replacing that eeprom I mentioned or having a read...
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    t22 password boot problem

    You know... if it is just a power on password and it is possible to boot it up (and if not, if it's possible to remove that) then you could make things even worse by removing the battery since it'll reset the cmos, so the laptop will need to enter the bios for you to set the time and stuff, but...
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    So much for Turion being more powerful than P-M...

    Trouble for AMD is that unless they design their own p-m equivalent with all the power management functions, the branch predictor and a huge L2 cache, they can't really compete with it except by picking the best chips and trying their best to make the a64 use less power. I like AMD, but apart...
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    Need help on BIOS PW LOCK on a Thinkpad t41

    IBMs are infamous for having very hard to remove supervisor passwords. If you were to ask on the forum at thinkpads.com, your thread would be quickly locked and you would be ridiculed. It looks like the same thing is going to happen here unless you have a legitimate reason for it coming into...
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    how can i temporarily "break" my old laptop?

    dismantle it and disconnect the LCD cable from the system board. It'll look like the LCD has failed and it'll be easy to explain that the cost of a new LCD will be more than the laptop is worth :)
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    small notebook with video card?

    I think the sony vaio S series laptops are the only ones that fit that criteria, although the newer alviso based ones only seem to have geforce 6200 cards, the older ones have mobile 9700 cards. I don't know of any other laptops in the sub 14" range that have decent video cards.
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    Better Processor in Dell C600

    You can't use a P3-m 1ghz cpu from a C610, it's tualatin based (not really compatible with the BX chipset in the C600) and it has 478 pins, while the C600's CPU has 495 pins. You can however do a straight swap of parts from the C610, the mainboard from it should fit in the C600's plastics and...
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    Thinkpad X series advice?

    ^^^ IBM hadn't started doing that with the X20-X24 laptops, I think it started from around the X30 onwards. I've tried a mini pci wireless card in my X20 and have had little luck, the card works and gets a good signal with the mini pci antenna outside of the case, but as soon as you put it...
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    make a cheap toshiba awsome

    I know :D edit: you also have a point on the price of the 5400, it is a lot cheaper. And the dell's hot palm rest is just because it uses fairly thin plastic there, it could be specific to that laptop.
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    Notebook Upgrade Debate

    Agreeing with everyone else, hard disk will give a pretty huge speed improvement if you go for a 7200rpm.
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    make a cheap toshiba awsome

    Don't bother upgrading the processor just yet, although you can do so because that particular laptop isn't crippled with the 852GME chipset (less speedstep and power management features). If you can, look for second hand processors on ebay and the like because the retail prices are pretty...
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    Celeron-M 1.3ghz vs P3-m 1.2ghz

    The celeron-m wins both battery life and speed - average power usage should be lower (although it doesn't have such advanced speedstep as the p-m). I dunno, I recall the celeron-m having a more basic chipset to cut costs, the 852GM or something. Power usage should be around 10-11 watts/hour...
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