Hello, I wonder if anyone is experiencing the same problem. Almost every time i turn this laptop on the Philips Media Manager starts downloading updates. I find it a bit odd that it happens so often.

Any advice? Thanks a lot and HAPPY NEW YEAR :)

Victoria,
I have previously done the Crucial Scan and as reported above it states that there are 4 slots with 1 taken up with 1gig, which personally I find hard to believe as desktops tend to only have 2 slots.

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I have just purchased 1gig RAM off eBay but its still to arrive. I opened the back of the computer up and I am certain there are two slots, as stated on a website I read. Unfortunately, the slot 0 is above slot 1 and as memory the 1gig is in slot 0, to apply the new memory you would need to take out the 1gig that is pre-installed.

As far as games go, I'm currently able to play Quake 4 which was used as a benchmark for games until Half Life 2 was released. Quake 4 runs really well, although I was unable to install it in Vista due to a conflict with Office which I couldn't be bothered looking into.

Hope this is of help,

Feel free to ask me any more questions

Lee

i went into currys today to but the x56 i tried to get a discount to knock the price down to £649

"Any Currys store has a voucher offer for the X56 which they can use at their discretion"
quoted by desF

but they wouldnt give me the discount so i walked out
any ideas in how i can be successful im not happy in paying £700 im a poor student so not much money.

MJ

The reason it is on but the screen is blanck may be because you turned the screen off, to turn it on hold the blue button on the bottom left of the screen and press one of the F# keys which has a picture of two squaes overlaping

Ken

Read reply 155 from CJ. I did what he suggested went into Curry's and said I understand theres an offer on the x56, he checked and said yes there is do you want one.

I have had my X56 for just two months, have had lots of problems with sound. error messages, you may not have sound devices installed etc etc etc. Everytime I load something it goes wrong!!

I have been back to PC world who gave me their service number 1 1/2 hours on the phone fixed problem untill I turned it back on and error messages are back and again the sound is selective. I have to keep restoring!! which means anything loaded is gone.

fed up now its going back
guy at PC world said I was not the first person with these problems!

I've had my X56 for 6 weeks now, have had no problems at all, running really well, a nippy little machine. Just wondering if anyone is tried using a tv-out on this and if so, how successfulu it was - thanks peeps

ah, i've just realised it has no tv-out socket :-( shame really. It doea have an avg output to connect to another monitor tho. Has anyone tried connecting this laptop to a LCD tv through this? Will probably look to purchase a 32" LCD tv if good results

Lee.....

I think you'll find that there isn't a slot under the currently installed ram chip. My X56 went belly up today (suddenly) so nipped the back off and slipped out the ram out to look. It looks like a second slot at first glance but isn't as covered with wires from ram chip connectors above it. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news there.

Anyways - mine failed to boot today and ended up slipping in the recovery disk to set disk up again. This failed to work so booted off another disk as it appeared there was no hard disk activity. All that could be found was the recovery partition (now labeled 'C') and nothing else. Took it back to PC World tonight as less than two weeks old and got a refund. Their expert opinion was that it was s*****d!! Shame really, as it was a nice little laptop. I'll look elsewhere now though know I'll have to spend more to get one of similar size.

Good luck all.

Still delighted with my X56 ! Assuming satisfactory upgrade to Vista (when available) and its promised support of flash memory cards as additional system memory could the media reader slot be used for such purposes ? If so, then what card format would be best do we suppose ?