Gateway M285 Tablet: Windows Setup doesn't see HD
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Gateway M285 Tablet: Windows Setup doesn't see HD.
Problem:
While installing Windows XP (and possibly Vista) Setup says "Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer."
Solution:
1. Download the mass storage controller driver D20035-001-001.EXE.
2. Download nLite.
3. The mass storage controller driver will need to be slipstreamed using nLite. See how here.
Labels: Gateway, MPC, slipstream
posted by AbsoluteRaleigh @ 9:46 PM,
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2TB Hard Drives are out now
WD has released the WD20WEADS, the first 2TB internal HD.
it is also a "green drive". Read more about it on WD's site WDC.com.
Labels: hard drive, western digital
posted by AbsoluteRaleigh @ 8:45 PM,
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We're closed today
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
The snow is still coming down good here- the roads are pretty bad and most of our employees have quite a drive, so we're closed today along w/ almost everyone else. Hopefully normal operations will begin again tomorrow.
posted by AbsoluteRaleigh @ 8:52 AM,
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Winter Weather Update
Monday, January 19, 2009
Absolute Computers will most likely be closed Jan 20, 2009 due to winter weather.
Other closings in the area are listed on WRAL's site here:
www.wral.com/weather/closings.
posted by AbsoluteRaleigh @ 2:58 PM,
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Shipping Notice for Inauguration Day
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Due to the anticipated increased traffic and security measures associated with the 2009 Presidential Inauguration, pickup and delivery service in Washington D.C. and the surrounding areas will be affected from Monday, January 19, through Wednesday, January 21. Government restrictions and road closures will impact all carriers.
posted by AbsoluteRaleigh @ 8:53 AM,
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Windows 7 Beta Release
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Microsoft will be releasing a public copy of Windows 7 Beta on Friday, 1/9/9. It will be available for download at Microsoft.com. We're experimenting with it here.
posted by AbsoluteRaleigh @ 9:39 PM,
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Quad Core Mobile Processors
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Intel just released some new mobile processors, among them, a Mobile Quad Core chip w/ 6MB cache (the faster, 12MB cache CPUs were already out).
Q9000 Mobile Quad Core goes for $345 and has 6MB cache. This is the new release...
Q9000 Mobile Quad Core goes for $850 and has 12MB cache.
QX9300 Mobile Quad Core goes for $1,035 and has 12MB cache.
Above is a stock pic of Acer's Aspire 8930G, which uses a Q9000.
posted by AbsoluteRaleigh @ 5:34 PM,
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New Blog Layout!
Friday, January 02, 2009
Just finished a new blog layout!
Fresh & clean!
posted by AbsoluteRaleigh @ 10:48 PM,
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Solid State in a T40
Thursday, January 01, 2009
One of our customers who buys his T40s here on a regular basis wanted one built fast, reliable & quiet.
We used a T41 motherboard and a 1.6Ghz Dothan CPU. We had 1.8Ghz CPUs here but they make he T40 run hot and the fan spins often- the 1.6Ghz runs nice and cool and the fans rarely come on under normal operation, eg: email / browsing / etc.
For the hard drive we used a SSD (solid state drive). Space was not an issue so we used a Transcend TS64GSSD25-M 2.5" 64GB IDE drive.
Running solid state in the T40 was flawless. There was one hiccup- the factory jumper must be on the drive for the T40 to recognize it. Wow, does it boot Windows fast. XP loads in about 10 seconds. We've read that the write times on SSDs are slower that HDs but that will not be an issue.
The machine is SILENT. 99% of the time it has no moving parts.
posted by AbsoluteRaleigh @ 10:58 AM,
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
New here for 2009:
- Expanded tech area
- Another technician
- A new look for the retail area coming soon
posted by AbsoluteRaleigh @ 10:52 AM,
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