No offence, but I'd think it would have to be externally powered, even the lowest LCD's require 50-60watts and you won't get that from a USB port....
Exactly, it's an intricate job and not worthwhile unless you have a reasonable chance of success. FWIW I wouldn't recommend this if someone needed...
So do I, I was just looking for some moral support :D I'll go ahead with it anyway when I have time unless someone tells me it will not work :)
The power on/start button is on the side yes. It does but... Perhaps a misunderstanding, I don't want to close the lid, I'd prefer to remove...
I've a laptop with a broken LCD screen, it's not worth repairing but I do have a spare monitor and I was wondering if the laptop would still work...
Make/Model? maybe would help.
Just wasn't sure whether to trust Device Manage Steve, but Rockster2U's post cleared up the confusion. :D
Thanks for the feedback guys. After installing the 2nd drive Device manager reports the 7200's Current Transfer Mode is Ultra DMA Mode 6 whereas...
Would the slower speed of a 5400rpm slave drive affect the throughput of a 7200rpm master drive on the same cable? If not is it still...
HD Replaced, everything's fine, I've temporally installed linux but still investigating whether it is possible to rescue the recovery partition.
Thanks, at the end of the day that's exactly what I done. The drive caused exactly the same symptoms on a Compaq laptop (ie crash during post and...
Just a thought, SATA is hot pluggable. Any risks involved in connecting the drive *after* I enter setup (I don't want to fry my friends hardware).
Thanks, will advise my friend accordingly... Now how to get the OS onto the HD :mad:
OK Just confirmed the DVD RAM drive is SATA (not as I suspected PATA), given that the system can boot from the DVD when the HD is removed is it...
It is a fairly recent system (Aspire 5610), the problem I have is if the HD is connected I cannot boot (no matter what boot device is selected) or...
Unlikely, it does look like your HD has failed however, you could try going into the BIOS and looking for options such as "failsafe defaults" etc...
Consider going to 2.5 - 3 GB, you will see a big improvement with 1.5GB and if you don't use the extra RAM (which TBH is pennies/cents nowadays)...
What OS and how hard does it work? XP (and most Linux) ... Reasonable improvement if you're multitasking fairly heavily. Vista... Large...
No problem. Now if someone can help with my ACER laptop issue :confused: :D
Four 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM DIMM sockets Support for DDR2 667, DDR2 533, or DDR2 400 MHz DIMMs Support for up to 4 GB of system memory...
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