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Much nicer, thanks!

I use EndNote version 8 and it crashed after i installed sp2. I am staying away from sp2 till the dust is settled.

Thanks everyone! My optical drive still had not arrived but I got around the problem with a usb hard disk. I booted from the usb hard disk and installed from there. Seems like most newer bios will accept booting from usb drives.

I'm posting from my new M6BNe :D Still waiting for fedex to deliver the CD drive. I installed XP from a usb drive :wink: No dead pixels so far :P Installing all this software takes a long time... Hi Kronus, Can you elaborate how you managed to install XP from a usb drive? Did you mean a usb cd driv...

Well, alphapc says that the backplane is part of the optical drive and cannot be sold separately. So I guess that means that I will have to order the optical drive from them. It's 109 + 10 for shipping. And it's another 10 bucks restocking fee to return my optical drive to newegg. Should have done t...

Hi shades_of_blue, Did you order your optical drive together with your notebook? I am going to ask for this backplane from alphapc but just wanted to make sure that it is not a proprietory part that comes bundled with the optical drive. Silly me. In my attempt to remove the keyboard, I almost remove...

I got mine today! Well, yesterday, but was tinkering with it and kinda lost track of time.... My specs: 1.7 Dothan, 512 3200 ram 80 gig HD (thanks shades_of_blue!) but 4200rpm though Intel Pro b & g wireless CD RW/DVD drive One big problem. All my parts were ordered separate (mainly newegg and z...

I got mine from alphapcstore.com

Called them about my order (to change from M6N to M6Ne), sounds like a mom&pop shop but they've been pretty responsive with my order so far.

What kind of thermal paste are you guys using? I am thinking of PCM+. Anyone have any experience with this?

Hi everyone, I am thinking of assembling my own whitebox as well. Thinking of using the M6N (15' XGA) as the chasis, and looking at Dothan 1.7, 1 stick corsair pc2700 512mb ram, Fujitsu 4800rpm 80gig HD, panasonic slot-loading CDRW/DVD combo drive, and Intel Pro 2200 wireless g/b with no os installe...