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I have already shared that I will not upgrade until SP1 at least with any MS OS. I also recommend this course of action to any of my clients as well. This article only reinforces my hesitation and confirms that in many ways XP is really a solid OS.

Mustang you have stated your need. If someone is able to help you, I am sure they will contact you.

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I know it can be frustrating. This is really the most helpful route in my experience. Perhaps you could get a friend with high-speed to d/l the drivers and burn them for you? Perhaps contact Gateway directly and they may help with this too?

DGwar - have you tried updating your drivers as suggested? As well, according to you system specs, you're running a tablet PC - is that correct? Another item, if you are running a tablet, there is a new BIOS (as of August) as well for the NX860X. That too would be of use. As Fenghuang and meta said, you need to d/l drivers and update them. This will help to troubleshoot. Addition: Do you have any conflicts in Device Manager?

TGDaily I enjoyed this article on the acquisition. I found it challenging, but in the end I do not think if HP tries to keep VodooPC high-end that it will maintain its current clienetele. Dell and Alienware made sense, as Alienware was also about balancing quality and quantity. HP does not seem to have the love/hate relationship that Dell has. I do wonder if rebranding VodooPC to go head-head with Alienware is the ultimate goal ...

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Core 2 Duo currently holds the performance lead. AMD mobos may have a clearer upgrade route at the moment, but I do not thinks it is bravado to acknowledge the C2D performance crown.

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No I meant the notebook's LCD meta - not the external one.

Thanks for the response legion. It'll be interesting to also here from meta on this. I do not plan on hooking up to my external except for gaming, but when I do it would be good to know if the heat will be an issue. I may call XPS support to know their thoughts, as I have heard they definitely know the system.

The GPU makes sense - it often comes down to what you like/know. The good thing is there definite room to grow if you choose Diamond.

This just occurred to me - no adverse effects to the LCD from heat coming up through the kb?

Oh, I thought it was so full on account of how busy and full your day is The games, I assumed, were also not for 'fun' but a metric of reality that was and may be ...

Thanks meta! Helpful to have some of my hopes/assumptions confirmed. I'll add a pic once everything is set-up.

I'm wondering if we could have a more detailed hardware spec DGwar, if you are still having issues? Might help to ascertain heat/driver solutions.

@ legion: Do you game with the notebook closed? If so, how's the heat in that situation? I've just picked up a M1710 and this is one of the things I am considering doing with my extenral monitor and it looks like this may be what you are doing.

That is indeed a very interesting script - from where does this originate?

Well it's bed time in the sandbox ... /gets the sand broom

My goodness that's a lot of geckling bling bling Perty rig ... what's the decibel level like?

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If the connexion is gaming, I would suspect heat/conflict. A simple investment in a passive cooler - basically get the notebook off of the table with some air under often works wonders. A table/desk acts as a heat sink and makes stuff hotter than it needs to be - especially for gaming.