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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 25th Dec 2010 01:24 Edited at: 25th Dec 2010 05:09
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Hello all, I was wondering, is there a way to figure out the physical location of things like the graphic card, CPU, etc. are in my laptop without opening it? I have a pavilion dv6 if anyone knows. I dont know why but ive always been curious about this

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Lemonade
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Open Run, type 'dxdiag' and hit enter.

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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 25th Dec 2010 05:06
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I see, but that doesnt show the physical location... Thanks!

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how do u expect software to be even able to get that information?

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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 25th Dec 2010 06:20
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ummm... truth be told i didnt think it could, ll! I was thinking that maybe there was an online directory... Is there some pattern to or similar to fig. it out?

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Posted: 25th Dec 2010 11:39 Edited at: 25th Dec 2010 11:42
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You should just google for the service guide - Here's one I found, take a look at page 17.

[edit]Darn spaces in urls - fixed.

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Posted: 25th Dec 2010 16:00
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what's wrong with just opening it?

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Posted: 25th Dec 2010 17:43
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Quote: "what's wrong with just opening it?"

warrenty

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Posted: 25th Dec 2010 17:56
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And putting it back together if you have no computer knowledge.


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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 25th Dec 2010 18:14 Edited at: 25th Dec 2010 18:16
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Yah, i have computer knowledge, mainly software though. And actually my warranty expires today, lol!

@ianm Thanks

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Posted: 25th Dec 2010 21:40
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why do you care where things are physically located?

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Posted: 25th Dec 2010 22:01
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the easiest way is to just take the thing apart. thats what i always do... oh the warranties i have voided

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Posted: 25th Dec 2010 22:02
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Quote: "the easiest way is to just take the thing apart. thats what i always do... oh the warranties i have voided"
I've voided the warranties on literally every piece of electronics that I own...

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Posted: 25th Dec 2010 22:42
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Quote: "I've voided the warranties on literally every piece of electronics that I own..."


i am just not as cool and hardcore as you man.. but i still voided a lot of warranties. so that makes me pretty cool and hardcore sortof

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Posted: 25th Dec 2010 23:13
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Yah, lol! I have just always wondered where these things are. I have an EXTREMELY visual mind, like different things are different colors, like 1 is white, 9 is orange, etc... But as i use a computer, i like to visualize whats goin' on

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well its easier with a desktop. laptops differ more. But here is something to help you. most laptops which have seperate covers for HDD and ram have tiny engraved icons labeling them. the ram cover has a small ram chip icon engraved and the HDD cover usually had a little disc icon on it. you know where the CD drive is. the hottest part of the laptops bottom is where the processor is. Usually the graphics processor and the north/sought bridge or chipset are somewhere around the CPU. the cpu might be paralell to the heat exhaust vent but with all the piping it might not be as accurate as i described. the cpu is usually close to the fan on the bottom again i might be wrong about some laptops. If you are lucky and have a high end gaming laptop like an asus or something. these tend to be more nerd friendly and just have 1 big cover which you just unscrew and everything is underneath. (sometimes if the HDD dosent fit under the cover its in under a sepetrate cover. again varies from laptop to laptop. You might have hard time telling apart the cpu from the GPU or the chipset. Well CPU is usually the biggest and sits inside a white slot. (rare monster gaming notebooks have desktop LGA776 sockets which are made of metal but theyre hard to miss). If you have a netbook the processor is proboly not in the socket at all but just soldered to the motherboard. in a netbook altho the CPU is proboly the biggest thing that looks like the CPU. So if you want you can just take off some of the covers (but be careful not to void the warranty) I am a very unlucky person with my most recent notebook purchase. my ACER, its constructed in a very retarted way so that to get to the CPU (like to change the thermal paste and to clean out the heatsink/fan) you have to completley take the thing apart. including the motherboard, you have to take that off also because the the spu and heatsinks are on the bottom of it right between the motherboard and the bottom chassis of the case. i also have to take off the monitor to take off the top cover its annoying. Older laptops had a very easy but standard mechanism take off the plastic bar withon/off buttonnext to the screen, unscrew the keyboard, take that off, and take off a metal heat sheet and everything is exposed, heatsink CPU and ram. that was very easy. unfourtunatley people who make laptops today are retarted. dont buy acers. the only thing worse than an acer is an e mashines laptop. the thing that makes acers better is they tend to have more powerful hardware. e mashines are all pure celeron/semphron mashines with a shared graphics memory

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Posted: 26th Dec 2010 07:31
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Yah, that pretty much confirms where i thinks stuff is I can kinda tell where my graphics chipset is because one area is always hot (the cpu) and another area is only hot when i do graphically intense stuff. My friend has an e machines laptop and it is slower than slow can possibly be

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Posted: 26th Dec 2010 16:52
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Quote: "i am just not as cool and hardcore as you man.. but i still voided a lot of warranties. so that makes me pretty cool and hardcore sortof"
Ha. That made me laugh, "Cool and Hardcore." Not at all, just bored...

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in 20 years when the nerds take over voiding warranties will be most hardcore gansta s___ By that time i am hoping to void as many warranties as i can so the kids will look up to me and say. That old man is the legend of hardcore

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I once voided the warranty on a pentium 4. I'm more hardcore than both of you.

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Posted: 26th Dec 2010 18:30
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Quote: "I once voided the warranty on a pentium 4. I'm more hardcore than both of you."


WOW how did you manage to do that? those things are indestructible. was it socket 478 like did you mutilate all the pins? because if it was an LGA, youd have to run that thing over with a tank.

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Posted: 26th Dec 2010 19:03 Edited at: 26th Dec 2010 19:05
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it's a process called delidding

it totally destroyed my p4 so I decided not to try it on my new (at the time) c2d

I might try it again once I upgrade my pc, just for giggles.

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yeah its hard to de-lid a p4

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I can be hardcore too! I voided the warranty on my Apple.... oh wait, you can do that just by turning it on.

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Yah, Apples STINK!!! I was at my friends house one time and his dad has a macbook (woops forbidden word on this site) and I talked bad about it the whole time. When i got back, my windows pc was cursed Dont talk bad about a mac, though the temptation may be there...

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I personally don't like when people hate Macs or PCs, both computers have their uses. PCs are better for gaming and development, but Macs are better for video editing and multimedia tasks, and are also a lot simpler for less experienced people.

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Posted: 27th Dec 2010 03:43
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I see, but whenever i use a mac i just plain cant figure it out, lol! But agreed, both have their uses

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Yeah, mac is a fine operating system... tbh I think its just collective hate for the sake of hate xD

...however... I like to have control over what I'm using... I dislike DRM... and in general I'm a tad bit anti-establishment. So, using a computer that takes away so much control, and tries to prevent other people from using it (monopoly) so that they can charge a bunch for their products? Not my thing. Of course I've spent many hours tinkering with my computer, with antivirus software, trying out different OSes, etc. Apple isn't totally comparable to microsoft, or linux. Apple sells the complete package, and microsoft just sells OS/software. Linux is just the OS(/kernel but whatevs).




Oh, but yeah... There really is no imagining whats going on inside a computer, because its soh gawshdang complicated. Everything is happening at the same time all the time! If you want to figure out how a computer works, read "The Elements of Computing Systems".

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haha, yah, i know how the computer works, and, or, not, xor, etc gates, and now im lookin' at binary multiplication and division Haha one day i got bored and filled out a word document with binary from one to 255 Tis included in the download of this post

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Quote: "Yeah, mac is a fine operating system... tbh I think its just collective hate for the sake of hate xD"


I've got a Mac for audio editing and I must say as a professional tool it's a joy to use - absolutely no messing about with drivers, everything just works and becomes a fluid experience.

It's a shame that a large percentage of Mac users I've come across are pretentious bumholes who own a Mac simply for the fact that it's a Mac and has a certain amount of what they assume is elitism attached with owning one - despite the fact that they use it for nothing more than web surfing and emails. A complete waste if you ask me.

Then again I must say that Apple charge an absolute fortune for their hardware. So I don't actually have a Mac, I have a Hackintosh - now without meaning to derail the conversation - it was about half the price of a Mac Pro and performs just as well, if not better in some areas. What you are paying for with a Mac is the rock-solid support and reliability - not bad things IMO.


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Posted: 29th Dec 2010 18:08
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I see, makes more sense now

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