What's the newest BIOS for the Acer TM 800 serie? Where can I find the changelog for the BIOS? -- -fredrik-normann-

Ever since day 1 (almost 3 years ago) my Acer 5613ZWLMi system clock has been wrong. Acer service just tells me to go some shop and have the backup battery replaced. Shops tell me, they would send the laptop to Acer service. What should I do ? Can I replace it by myself ?

My new Extensa 7220 has a bluetooth switch on the front but does not seem to do anything. I have even attached a bluetooth dongle but the switch is still unresponsive. I have read through the manuals and they mention the bluetooth and talk as if it's integral but nothing seems to work for me. ...

I am interested in recording some Old Time Radio programs I can download. Each file is approximately 12 mb and 30 minutes playing length. CD disks have a maximum time limit of 80 minutes playing time and 700 MB. Does this mean that I can only record two 30-minute programs although the total bit...

I'm about to attempt a "downgrade" on my Acer Aspire M3610 desktopsystem, but I was wondering about the drivers for the kayboard (KU-0355) and the mouse (N12ROU). Namely, do I need to hunt down any special drivers for these? I haven't found any so far, not even on Acer's own site... Any ideas?...

Are there any known problems that prevent Vista Home Basic to install SP1 on an Acer Aspire 3680-2633? MS chat service has not been able to get it installed, even with all the eAcer services stopped and the machine rebooted. -- Best regards Han email address is invalid

I have a problem. I bought new notebook with preinstall Ubuntu. Now I want delete it and install WinXP Prof. but XP don't "see" hard disk. I can do nothing with partition table. Is anybody know how do this ? Regards Marek

In store special starting tomorrow.. Can it be upgraded to 2 g ram? Is it worth the money? -- The Verminator

Is there anybody who has a modem driver for me. My notebook is Travelmate 290 -- Spiderfly

Hi all, i have a problem with my notebook. It suddenly stopped working, screen went black, powered stayed on, and the 2 leds in front (beutooth and wifi) stayed on. After i turned it off and back on it gives the same. Ventilator starts turning for 3 sec, power led turns green and 2 leds in...

Ive got a acer extensa 2355c running XP home with 40gig drive. I looked at disk management and it has 3 partitions? 2 primary and on logical. (acer)C:-------system (acerdata)D: PQservice-----EISA configuration What is the partition PQservice? Ive got no idea and it cant be accesed... thanks

I've got two of these both with dead inverter boards. Is there a common component that fails on these boards that anyone knows about? TIA Jim -- ---

Hi, I have been in touch with Acer Service/helpDesk manager in two countries very frequently on quality issues. 803LCI (and basically all 800 series, and applicable to 600 series). 1. 4A12 Does sometime hang your system, and can't be rebooted for few hours. Thought hardware issue, but upgrading...

Hi, My Acer 800 lci laptop suddenly started showing a very garbled display on bootup so that nothing on the screen can be read correctly. All of the characters and graphics on the screen were "pixelated" (if that is even a word ) and cannot be recognized at all. Even in Windows there are multiple...

Why does my ACER 1912 blackout momentarily when I go into and out of Media Player? I have another ACER 17" at work that doesn't do this at all. -- "Don't get me wrong... I'm SNARKY" JK Sinrod Sinrod Stained Glass Studios www.sinrodstudios.com Coney Island Memories

When intalling Linux on my Aspire 5002WLMi, I managed to delete the partition with the eRecover system. Acer says that there is no way to restore the partition. Do they speak the truth? === Jonathan M. Prigot

Several months ago I purchased a Ferrari 4000 laptop. I just wrote to Acer to mention that I have seen several driver updates from ATI but as yet, I have not seen any from Acer (of course, the ATI drivers say my video card is not supported by ATI and that I should talk to the supplier of...

Hi Group, anytime I connect this Laptop to the Internet the CPU-Idletime is "0", there is "100%" Processor load. I cannot find what process causes this CPU-capacity. Any idea? John

Greetings all... I've just tried to install a Netgear WG311 wireless PCI card into an old AcerPower 8000 and it wouldn't boot. Do you think it might need a BIOS upgrade? Can anyone please tell me where I can find a BIOS upgrade for an old AcerPower 8000?

I don't know if this newsgroup is checked regularly or not, but I wanted to know if it was possible to get a updated graphics card for this laptop. The 64Mb version I currently have is starting to look a bit old. Any recommendations? Can a tech-svvy, but not expert, person do the upgrade...