Hi. With an acer computer, I've tried to make a backup with acronis true image home (version 11) of the 320 sata drive (containing 3 partitions) which has vista (home premium) installed. I have tried this various times with 2 different usb2 drives (one with a generic usb2 encasing for an ata drive...

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...

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?...

I have a Travelmate 2420 with a Celeron M processor. I also have a broken laptop with a Mobile Intel Pentium 4, 3066 MHz, socket 423 CPU. Will this Pentium processor fit and work in the Travelmate 2420? -- Regards, Dick Treen

How long (approx) should a fully charged battery last? Mine goes for about 3 hours before I get a message saying to change to mains power. -- Molesworth

looking around for a larger hdd for my 1654, i think its a e-ide drive but not sure what will be compatible. i have seen this drive- http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=345215 does anyone know if it will be suitable ?

I've been handed an Acer Aspire E360 desktop that should have Media Center on it but is missing the c:\windows\system32\hal.dll file. The recovery partition (ALT + F10) refuses to run also. I ordered the 6 cd Recovery Disk set from Acer to try and roll this system back to factory. When I...

1.AyRecovery is one-click software solution. You do not have to be equipped with sophisticated PC knowledge. 2. Enables as many as 1000 system snapshots. A snapshot contains 100% of Windows system settings, programs and user data at the time of the snapshot. You can restore your PC to any snapshot...

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

Acer 3680: I get a BSOD when burning the application backup via the 'e' widget. Anyone get this to work OK?

Looking at a Ram upgrade for my Acer Aspire 3003 WLCI. Currently it has a 512 Mb stick and the Crucial advisor lists 5 compatabile 1 Gb sodimms for about $85+US (.1 Gb DDR PC2700 CL=2.5 Unbuffered NON-ECC . DDR333 . 2.5V . 128Meg x 64 Part #: CT456534). I have an opportunity to get a 1Gb...

It seems this atheros wireless card is incompatible with every single network discovery tool on the market.Anyone found one that works? I have tried wifi hopper and net stumbler.

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...

From yesterday my notebook (with Vista Home Premium) goes very very very slowly! I don't know if the cause is the update of Acrobat from ver. 8 Professional to 8.1.2 but now start-up takes 10 or more minutes, anche my user start-up other 10-20 minutes! What's happen?! HELP! :-( Mhaxx

It's the first notebook I have and it's Windows Vista based. If it has the battery then you can stand-by it starting from the state you left. If it hasn't the battery (i.e. because I removed to use the AC) then you can stand-by but if you disconnect it from AC you loose the state and system asks...

Yesterday I forgot to tell the model of the acer pc I was talkin about: it is an Aspire 5672 notebook. Sorry for the approximated post. See you soon (hope) Ciccio.

My Aspire 5715z has processor Intel Pentium dual-core T2330: is it 32 o 64 bit? Mhaxx

To change brightness level you have to press Fn + left/right arrow and it works good. Why this setting won't stay for the next time you'll start Windows? Mhaxx

Hey Everybody; Giving you a straightforward method to the do the downgrade successfully on that machine, that what I will do. I spent like 3 nights reading and trying everything and I wanted to share my experience. I won't go into a lot of details but the main problem that the RAID SATA driver,...

i have been given an acer pc but as soon as i boot it after the acer screen appears it asks me for my password, i have been given the password but i want to get rid of this screen. It comes up before the user accounts password and it is a blue screen , can someone tell me how to get rid of it...