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S478 just means Socket 478, it's an older chip socket for intel's, the newest being S775. Yes you can use your old CD, HDD, and GFx card, however if you change the CPU and mobo you will most likely need to re-install Windows on the drive. Any manufacturer will work for you (I don't think you're...

Looks like it should work, that's 1394a right?

Unless there's a PCMCIA 6 pin card like TOO mentioned there's not really a way you can upgrade. Laptops are difficult to upgrade and are generally left stock except for Ram, CD/HDD. If you got a decktop machine you can find plenty of PCI cards to plug into it to use the 6-pin Firewire.

What are the full specs of it and do you have the ebay link?

Bestbuy has deals all the time on PCMCIA wireless cards, if you look around at the places TOO mentioned I'm sure you could find one for 50$ with a 30-40$ MIR.

Generally speaking a refurbed was a broken laptop which was sent back and repaired by the company and a used is just that, used but not broken (unless stated). I usually buy new, not used or refurbed, but if you must then I suggest a refurbed laptop.

QUESTIONS 101 Do you have a firewall running on the lappy?

It is possible that it would work. I too have one of those boards and had it running a 1.3Ghz Duron. One of the DDR slots died on mine and eventually the whole board went. My suggestion is don't chance it, buy a new mobo and cpu (such as a S478 board and chip) and buy new ram and if necessary a...

If you're running windows XP you right click on My Computer-->properties and go to the remote tab, then click the box that says "allow users to connect remotely to this machine". Then on whatever machine you're using to remote into yours you go into start-->all...

That's not a good answer, but yes, it will probably be able to play them at the same time unless there's some sort of DirectX conflict. And you are going way overboard with your machine, you don't need nearly anything as powerful to play those games on maxed out settings. What brand is the...

Use the RAID 101 thread and see if it's really worth it for you to put your drives in RAID, the thread also explains how to do everything you need to set them up.

Get a crossover cable (it's a special ethernet cable) and connect one end to your lappy and one end to your desktop. Setup a home netwrok between the 2 machines (assuming both are XP) and just transfer files across it.

What happens when you hit Del or Shift+Del?

How can you answer with that when you don't even know what he's talking about? Right clicking on different things does different things depending on what you click on. A little more info would be helpful to solve your problem.

Uh YEAH, to run you need all 24 pins (or 20 pins) plugged in. That could definately be what's causing your problems. Try another PSU or see if you can push that other pin back into its place.

Starting with the upper left of the F_PANEL ....__.... ..... the first 2 pins, pins 2, 4 are positive and negative of the power LED (respectively) next 2 pins which would be 6,8 is the power switch. pins 1,3 (below 2,4) is the HDD LED with positive being 1 and neg. being 3. Pins 14 and 20 are...

How about you give your brand and model of motherboard which you should have done first off, and we can tell you right where to plug everything in.

Yah, for ink though I'd use the discount ink or after market ink from someplace like www.carrotink.com

Have you tried resetting the BIOS?

If all your doing is web surfer and email/word then if won't matter what CPU you get or really how much RAM it has. Basically go for whichever one is cheaper and still offers a solution to what you want. In this case it looks like the Inspirion/