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[QUOTE=bevd;497078]sounds like one of the fans getting louder and louder until I turn it off. [/QUOTE] This may be to simple to be the cause but 'loud fan?' Could it simply be the bearings in you power supply cooling fan are shot? Stuck cooling fan means the power supply heat …

I'm buying a used laptop/notebook for vacation use. (Mainly checking email, 'storage' for digital photos, maybe some web surfing... ) There are 2 possibilities, Toshiba Tecra 8100 and IBM Thinkpad T21. Either will probably suffice for my needs. Do either of them have any significant advantages over the other? Thanks, …

More or less, [quote] From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia OpenGL OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a standard specification defining a cross-language cross-platform API for writing applications that produce 2D and 3D computer graphics. The interface consists of over 250 different function calls which can be used to draw complex three-dimensional …

First, Hello everybody. I have an old laptop that I can not 'restore' with the WinXP cd. Seems the loaded XP is newer than the cd that came with it. Since it was almost toast I tried anyway and the product code is invalid. I want to load ubuntu (cd …

I'm waiting on a Ubuntu cd from [url]www.on-disk.com[/url] (any experience with them?) at under $6 including s&h I don't see how I could go wrong. Supposedly a percentage of each cd supports linux developers.

Hello all, I have a potential problem here. I have 2 XP cd's (laptop and desktop) [B]neither of which[/B] are in their product code envelopes. Now if I should ever have to reinstall XP in the desktop.... How do I figure out which is the correct cd? I don't feel …

[quote=cscgal] This thread was created before the Community Introductions forum existed. This thread is now being closed to encourage each member to create their own thread about themselves. [/quote] Oh [B]now[/B] you tell me after I get to page 32! lol (I missed the closed button at the top) My …