I'm not lazy, I'm just energy efficient.
Posted 17 January 2013 - 10:40 AM
Good point...upgrading to that 65nm cpu will surely help me in terms of battery life as well.
Just a question, my optical drive will not respond to anything I do. Device Manager recognizes it, but when I press the eject button, it wont respond, and even if I manually put a disk in, it won't spin. Is it dead?
Check the connectors on the optical drive or update drivers perhaps?
Processor AMD FX-6100 Hex-core, 3.3GHz > Intel Pentium M 2.0GHz Single-core, 2.0GHz
Memory 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz > Hyinx 1.5GB DDR2 667MHz
Graphics Radeon HD7770 + Radeon HD5570 > ATi Mobility Radeon X600 400MHz Core
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 Socket AM3+ > OEM Latitude D810 Motherboard Socket 479
Storage Seagate Barracuda 2TB SATA 7200.14 > Western Digital 80GB IDE 5400RPM
Power Supply Cooler Master Elite ATX 500W > OEM Dell Power Supply 90W
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Posted 18 January 2013 - 01:02 PM
Well it was working perfectly fine before so I don't think drivers are the problem.
One day, I was curious on what kind of connector the optical drive uses for a laptop, so I detached it and put it back in...and after that it won't work anymore.
I DID accidently touch the lens that reads the drive, but it still should spin the disk...or light up or do something. Anyways, I barely use it so whatever.
The person selling the CPU on eBay for some reason dropped the price to $8 shipping included, so I went ahead and ordered that too.
After all these upgrades, I think my laptop should be snappier in Windows and run Dota2 very well on the current resolution!
For some reason upgrading this crappy laptop feels really rewarding compared to upgrading a desktop. Maybe it's because the upgrades are so cheap and the benefits (should be) significant!
| AMD A10-5800K | Asus F2A85-V | Asus N53 Wireless | Asus VE228H 21.5 Inch LED | Corsair Force GS 128GB | Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1866MHz @ 9-9-9-27 | Corsair CX500M | Corsair Carbide 200R | Corsair H60 Cooler |
