Hi, I've just bought an Acer laptop and I've noticed that the hard disk has two partitions, Acer and ACERDATA. The ACERDATA partition is 9.75Gb with about 8.5Gb free - is it safe to install things on this partition, or is the free space required for something else? Many thanks,

hi there, ive been wrestling with my laptop for weeks, in order to save money i decided to fix my broken power jack myself, unfortunatly i havent even been able to get to it yet! im trying to get the motherboard out but ive hit a wall i think its...

I am now using an external HD for all of my backup materials. I can do a System backup through Windeows Explorer but the Acer/Ghost built-in system will only recognize the split part (D:) of the internal drive or a CD/DVD drive. Is there a way to get my TravelMate 8100 and Norton to recognise...

Why would it take this long just to defrag about 40Gigs on drive C? Drive D (80 Gigs) takes so long that I just havent bothered. Seems that everything is a bit slow on this computer but I figured that is because it probably has a 5400 RPM drive to save power. Thanks ..

Anyone knows how can i found the service manual for a acer laptop travel mate 4233 wlmi? Thanks

Hi all I have just bought a jolly nice Acer Aspire 5920- but it has one distressing shortcoming- no Vista install disks! There is, however, the facility to make a 'Factory Default' disk, which I have already done. I will be installing Ubuntu on this machine, as I prefer it to Windows, but a...

Hi, I was using this computer this afternoon just web surfing and listening to radio and it went BZZT and now its dead. Wont power on or anything. Any possible ideas to what the problem might be? Thanks, Kevin

How can i open this notebook? any service manual available somewhere? or a guide to open it? thanks.

Is the 6 cell battery physically larger than the 3 cell battery? TIA

Make: Acer Model: Power SN, circa 1998 BIOS Version: 3.2 SMBios version: 2.1 Just updated the above machine from 192MB to 256MB, and when I reboot it, the BIOS suddenly decided to play blind. I had not done anything to the hard disk, nor the CDROM, but now, according to the BIOS, they do NOT...

Blank, I have a problem with a Acer to aspire 5601. Practically it has a slow start. I have restored the system with the restoration disc and has worked well until little days ago. I have extinguished and to the riavvio newly slow. I pray to you you help me. And excused the translation.

Dear friends: How to do a SFC /SCANNOW in an ACER C-110-CT Tablet PC? If I do it, it asks for the SP1 CD, but as I understand, the SP1 is originally embedded in the Operating System, as it is supplied by ACER, and as it shows when you right-click "My Computer". Any hint?

Hi guys, I'm hoping to tap the infinite resources represented in here... I've bought myself a second hand Acer Travelmate 735TLV from work to use as a writing computre, chucked WinXP Pro onto it, and all seems fine, except one vitally important thing. When I plug a USB thumb drive into it (any...

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Looking at this model on sale here for $A995. Require basic notebook for travelling and to network with desktop. Would appreciate any feedback - pro and con. Thanks Bill

Hi I have an Acer Travelmate 4101WLMI. Whenever I connect to the internet, no programs will open.But applications that were running before I opened the connection continue to run and interact fine. Then, after 10 minutes or so, all the programs I attempted to open suddenly all open at once! Its...

My laptop went in for repair to Acer's untechnical support center in January. Since then I have been trying to get them to send me the E-Recovery disk for a Travelmate2310, which hasn't been installed on the laptop since it came back from repair. They have sent me forms to fill in so that the...

hi i have sent my laptop to the uk centre and i must say the service is horibble awfull, i won't buy anything from that company gain, and to warn u people, they r so unprofessional, first of all if u send them an email u ned to wait about one week for an answer, when u call them they putting u in a...

Hello, I'd like to know how I can start the bios setup at the system bootstrap. Acer website tells that F2 while bootstrapping does open up the bios user interface, but it doesn't work. May anyone help me? Thanks

Mine appears to restore ok from the discs but then when windows is starting for the first time it goes into what seems like a never ending "Configuring updates Stage 3 of 3 " closing down and starting up to do what seems the same thing over and over and over... Has anyone had this problem ...? Tom