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Any pointers or instructions on how to reball it? Mine sat around for years. I fired it up the other day and it worked, I was shocked. But after one or two shutdowns it was dead again. So it feels like I should be able to get it back, just no clue as to what's the easiest or most effective way...

Oh mine died years ago. Still have it, not sure what to do with it. Tossing it seems wrong, but at this point I don't see any use in trying to fix it. One of these I'll probably just schlep it off to Best Buy for recycling after I strip it down and remove anything useful.

Holla!

Make sure the vents aren't clogged up. Take off the bottom cover and clear out all the dust bunnies.

Good to know you guys weren't affected by the recall. And Andy, I don't remember the force flash option, and all my old files are stuck on the dead laptop. It is one of the command line options. Too bad the old Everex forums are gone. I seem to remember something about how the Amilo bios...

Hmmm, I dunno. It might fit, but then again it might not. On a side note, I saw this and thought of Tanware. Didn't you buy a Targus power brick? http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/targus_recalls_universal_wall_power_adapter_laptops

Pretty sure they did, but I can't say 100% for sure.

No.

Dunno at this point. I don't travel much anymore and really don't need a laptop for daily use. For the last 2 years it's been used as more of a adjunct computer I can take from the living room to the bedroom, mostly for web browsing and stuff while on the couch. I'm moving next week and due to...

And mine just died :( Alas poor Everex, I knew thee well... RIP

Yeah, mine turns 3 in June I think. I too am surprised it's still kicking, barely tho. I'm just gonna keep using it till it finally gives up the ghost and then get something else.

Sigh... I put the laptop to sleep, and on wakeup the wifi is gone again. Restarted, still gone. Shut it down to take it with me and when I started it again it's back. Crazy.

So get this. I'm doing my thing and all of a sudden the screen goes black and the laptop is completely locked up (it seems to happen once in awhile, I'm sure due to its pending failure). I shut it down and restart, and I'm greeted with a new hardware notification for my new MSI miniPCI wifi...

Try pressing down firmly on the GPU and northbridge, see if that puts some more life into it.

Nope.

I'll be looking to buy a new laptop in 6-8 months. I just hope this bugger will last that long.

Mine has gone belly up three times now (I fear it's not long for this world) and I was able to revive it by taking off the back cover and pressing down on the GPU and various components near it. This worked the first 2 times. The third time I gave it the "left hand of God" smack and it came back.

I'm starting to wonder if my mini PCI slot is bad. I put in the MSI card and get nothing. I put in the Atheros card, still nothing. Either I got two bum wireless cards or the slot is toast. Sigh...

I just checked out the FTP site, and besides it being nearly impossible to connect to I did find the XT5000T files in the XTB70 folder.

Been awhile since I've been here, kinda surprised to see this forum is still active. My XT5000T is still kicking after 3 years despite all the doom and gloom. Recently I found that the Atheros wifi card bit the dust. I bought the venerated MSI MN54G2 to replace it, and it's not working...

nForce 4 http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_vista_15.26.html

I would try installing the nForce drivers from www.nvidia.com.

1.1E disables PCI prefetch, which most likely will have a pretty significant performance hit. You can flash it back to 1.1D, but of course you need the BIOS files to do it.

I think you got it... lax Everex. I did some googling and found that most manufactuers released disabled BIOSs back in October and November. So I'm guessing they are just getting around to it now. So I stand by my previous statement: don't use 1.1E!

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10222&Itemid=1 The full article has a response from Nvidia stating this is old news from January 2007, and that it's already been done a long time ago. So I have to wonder what this change is supposed to actually do. Maybe Nvidia...

Well that bites... so let's make it very clear: DO NOT UPGRADE TO BIOS 1.1E!!!!

Good find! But I gotta ask, what the hell is "PCI Prefetch adjustment"???

This error typically happens when you're not using the correct driver.

I just came across this nifty little utility called Calibrize 2. It's a quick and dirty monitor calibration program, and the first freeware utility I found that actually fixed the display on this lappy. And it literally took less than 5 mins to get it set. One quick note -- use the Nvidia...

Well I guess now that Everex has changed owners they are no longer fixing out of warranty units. That sucks. But hey, you actually got a response via email. Impressive.

The Nvidia control panel (with nTune) or RivaTuner.

These laptops really need a dedicated GPU fan, and unfortunately they don't have it. There is only so much you're able to accomplish with passive air cooling.

Mine topped out at 104C while game playing.

I'd say the card is dead. Pull it from the machine and pickup either a USB or ExpressCard replacement if you can't find the MSI (which, btw, I *was* able to find...)

You need to call them back and talk to someone else. The person you spoke with clearly doesn't know what they're talking about.

No, we don't. Are their problems? Yes. Does it appear to be heat-related? Yes. Is it due to "faulty" GPUs? We simply do not know. The evidence we have is anecdotal at best, and in some cases contradicts itself. So rather than jump on the "Nvidia is producing bad chips!" crazytrain I am man...

Just when you thought it was safe... <sigh>

I installed them into both Vista32 and XP32 without any trouble. What kind of problem did you have trying to install them. And Fujitsu notebooks are excluded, *not* Fujitsu-Siemens.

Go to www.laptopvideo2go.com or www.tweakforce.com and download a modded mobile driver set.

Not quite. I turned on the laptop and saw a white grainy screen that slowly faded to black, leaving behind multiple colored vertical stripes. But the laptop continued to boot. I powered down and restarted, and it came back ok (and has been ok since). The other thing I see is when I shut down...