Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Laptop is dieing..........very slowly

The Inspiron 5100 from Dell that I own is slowly dieing. It is on its last legs. Last night in class, screen suddenly when white. While I was initially saying what the hell...where did my video go? After a while and some troubleshooting with another classmate and friend, figured out that the wires that go to the video controller is either (a) loose (b) shorting ...... have it rigged for now to work, but was strongly suggested to me to get another laptop............ Yes this is dell's bad boy laptop.....the laptop that has always been known to have issues from day 1...ie this laptop badly overheats......... how I have been lucky with it since I have had it for a couple of years (like 3 I think...) it has gotten me thru my associates and to the start of my 3rd quarter of my bachelors.......

anyway a new laptop has been bought, and I am very anxiously awaiting for.
the new laptop has:
512 mb Video
1 GB RAm
100GB sata hard drive

I also bought the bigger battery to give me longer time unplugged and the auto/air adapter. Yes my new laptop will be going with me to Oklahoma and Arizona. It also has wireless built in (something I elected not to have on the 5100)

Anyway........ on other news I also had purchased a 250GB Sata hard drive for my pc at home. I received this toy in the mail yesterday....upon opening it I realized that I didn't have enough power connectors or sata connectors on my current power supply....... so I went in search of a new power supply this morning as I got into work......and quickly purchased a 550 watt power supply that also has the sata power connectors already attached ....no adapter needed....


Am in class awaiting the instructor to arrive who thought class was tomorrow and not tomorrow. School chair said we could have class tomorrow instead of waiting for the instructor tonight, and I said "Oh heck no..... I get tomorrow with my fiance you are not taking that from me".....he had already threatened Saturday class last night........ I do NOT want a Saturday class again.....its a dread and throws a wrench in everything.....

EDITED:
Here is what my new laptop will be:
Latitude D820 notebook: Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 (1.83GHz) 2M L2 Cache, 667Mhz Dual Core Genuine Windows XP Pro



Latitude D820 notebook: Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 (1.83GHz) 2M L2 Cache, 667Mhz Dual Core

Shipping Material

ISP Software

90W AC Adapter

Operating System Label

Resource CD

Norton Internet Security, 15-month

Processor Label

Microsoft Office Small Business 2003

Operating System Software CD

512MB NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M TurboCache

Support Software

Previously Ordered New

No Floppy Drive

AOL Software Documentation

AOL ISP Software

24X CD RW/DVD Combo Drive

Software

3945 802.11a/g Wireless Mini Card

15.4 inch WXGA Notebook Screen

Genuine Windows XP Pro

Keyboard On Notebook

Touchpad Mouse

100 GB SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM)

Service Software

Power DVD Software

Software CD

1 GB DDR2 SDRAM 533MHz (2 DIMMs)

9 Cell Primary Battery

Shipping Material

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