Recent content by twdawson

It would be nice if you could test your usb speed, as mine is painfully slow, I only get about 5 meg per second, and I get about 25 to 30 meg per second in windows. This is the only thing making me stay with windows. I have asked on loads of forums but cant find the solution to this problem.

Nothing to fancy as i keep it as clean as i can.

The only thing i dont like about the R519 is the keyboard, it feels a bit cheap and i replaced the hard drive with a 500 gig model and another 2 gig of ram. I could of got those specs at the time of purchase but funds were short at the time. Other than that it does not give me any problems...

As far as i know they are the drivers for the AHCI controller on the motherboard which deals with the dvd drives and other stuff, but i am glad you got it working. When i first had the problem it took me a while to figure it out because i was using the RC of 7 and samsung did not have any...

Hi Thats the exact same problem i had and i solved it by installing the IMSM driver for the notebook from the samsung website. What i did was download and install the driver but i left the win 7 disk in the drive and done a couple of restarts and then ejected the drive, then my machine said...

Just been on the phone to microsoft about this problem and they told me that the windows 7 upgrade program was nothing to do with them and i should contact samsung. For gods sake round and round we go. What amazing brilliant customer support from both of them. They have my money for the new...

Way ahead of you on that one

Well after using the RC for a while i actually went to the Samsung website where i am allowed to have a FREE UPGRADE to windows 7 because i bought this notebook in September of this year. I went through the process of ordering and it told me i would be charged £17 for shipping. Now nowhere...

My local area.

i did just in case

We got one disk which was 32bit upgrade in a simple cardboard folder.

We got the key by email on the 22nd and the download, and the disk arrived yesterday in the post.

Hi all Dont know how many of you use skydrive from microsoft which gives you 25 gig of free online storage for your files. In the past it was a pain to upload to because you had to use a web interface and could only upload 5 files at a time. Today i found this call Skydrive Explorer, which...

Hi all Anyone that has ordered the digital river student upgrade and have selected to get a disk in the post. Have you got it yet, because we have had an email saying that it can take up to 14 working days. Thanks

Sorry it was just a thought, i hope you get it sorted.