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it really depends on the laptop. I'm a dell user and I've found that most of the higher end laptops I've had have dedicated graphics cards that you can change, for example my backup laptop can have a different graphics card, probably my main laptop too though I've never taken it apart. if it...

click on the us/british flag on the left ;) a live cd is basically an Operating System (like Windows) that runs straight off the cd, it doesn't need installing. This is ideal as you don't want to use your hard drive. So you burn this image to a cd, then boot to it and it should come up with a...

obviously if there's that much of a problem with your drive then you may well have quite a few corrupt files, or it may not ever recognise your hard drive properly or something like that, but it's worth a go.

you can download Knoppix ( http://www.knoppix.org/ ) burn the image to a cd, then you can boot to that (it's a live CD) and then copy the files from there.

There are various Drive Imaging softwares out there, you can probably find a free one. These allow you to make an exact copy of your current drive, normally onto a drive of the same size or bigger drive. Though you have to watch out with those, theres a danger of it thinking you've copied the...

I've never been able to compare it really, my laptop came with Vista... and XP is faster than it, so I put that on straight away. I don't suppose there's a huge difference, though there must but some difference or they wouldn't have made it in the first place!

I wouldn't have thought that would be the issue, as I even managed to get it to switch off when I was rebooting from the bios. Normally if it's a memory issue, it only happens when it tries to use the faulty section of it, which is normally when running a few programs, I will try it anyway...

you could got the almost identical monitor in my sig, the BenQ E2200HD 22". That does have hdmi

assuming you have an hdmi port on your monitor that is :)

yeah, things are a lot more compatible these days, I've got a tv in my house that has my xbox 360 and wii connected to it... but can also have my laptop connected if I wanted to, via vga or hdmi, but anything that has hdmi should support anything else with hdmi, or it makes no sense for it to...

So I've been given this laptop to fix, as happens fairly regularly(Toshiba SA30-203, in case you were wondering), and I was told that it has a problem with having lines down the screen (needs a new screen, I know that much) and that it turns itself off after about half an hour. So when I got it...

To be fair, I've got a 9600GT and I can run all the games I've got in 1920x1080 and they're all absolutely fine, like UT3, COD4, D3 etc. if that helps you any...

What happens if you boot into safe mode?

doing that should be fine, That's what I did with the laptop in my sig, I had to change how the hard drive was presented so XP would recognise it, it's been fine with me and that was over a year ago!

good, I think I might go for the xfx 9600GSO 768MB card, thanks for the help guys!

well I have a 1920 x 1080 screen... but I think the best game I have graphically is doom 3, any ideas if it could cope with that? I suppose it doesnt always need to be at that res

anyway, the question was: cant really afford any 8800's but does anyone know how the 9600GSO 512MB compares with others? e.g. where it would fit in in the "scale" on tomshardware?

especially as its a pci-e card and a agp mobo in my current main pc!

its a completely new system, I just havent posted it yet cause I havent got all the parts yet. its a c2d 2.66

ok I've done a little hunting, cant really afford any 8800's but does anyone know how the 9600GSO 512MB compares with others? e.g. where it would fit in in the "scale" on tomshardware?