Acer Aspire Laptop 1800 (Intel) Windows XP Home connected to ADSL router (Zyxel) via 54 mb. wireless. Installed release SP3 today and found internet performance dropped to less than 10% of normal. I had tried installing the preview version of SP3 two months ago along with Internet Explorer 8...

I bought an Aspire E360 a couple months ago and finally got around to putting Linux on it. I did my best to make the new partition layout "recovery disk-friendly". I deleted the C: partition and created a new C: partition half its former size to make room for linux, and left drive D: alone. ...

Every 10 or 15s of inactivity, the HDD goes in power save mode.... This cause a wait stat of 1 or 2s every time it as to wakeup and a strange sound (3 clicks) from the internal HP... XP ACPI options are set to never stop, but the HDD is certainly driven by the BIOS ??? The issue is that the BIOS...

I need an instruction, service manual, to open my Acer Travelmate 521 TE, which had bad power cord connection. It could not be charged sometime. I removed all screws, battery, hard drive and opened plastics around the case but still can’t separate the center. Thanks in...

My Backup DVD has gone walkabout and I urgently need to restore the whole system, Acer no help, anybody willing to post (here) or post (Royal Mail) Thanks --------------= Posted using GrabIt =---------------- ------= Binary Usenet downloading made easy =--------- -= Get GrabIt for free from...

Whith reference to the above I upgraded my acer notebook from XP Home to XP prof and now my usb ports wont work. They dont recognise any usp connection . According to device manager all are ok and should be working properly. Acer are no help as they informed me that they cant help as I have...

i have an aspire 5002,512 mem 60 gig hd xp pro, on the back of the laptop i have an external display port, it says i can connect a monitor, lcd projector to it. can i connect it up to the television or is it just for lcd/monitors. zack

I have an acer aspire 500 series, the 5002 wlmi it runs xp home sp2 with 2 x 256 memory sticks both are ddr333, i want to upgrade the memory to 2 gig, i know it says in the book 1 gig only but i went to crucial.com & downloaded the memory checker software ran it & it says i can upgrade to two 1...

hi, has any kind soul out there got a system disk for a travelmate 4600, i dont want all the disks it comes with only the system disk. zack. ps reply to newsgroup or look in my headers for my email address. --

can someone please answer me this ... i have an acer travelmate 4600, it still has the hidden partition a d drive & the cd/dvd drive. its running xp pro with 2 x 512 mem cards. i bought it second hand & whoever installed the software on it could not have used the

anybody in the area surrounding nottingham with an aspire of this type for sale please email me. it says on the plastic sticker on the inside of the laptot aspire5002wmli. good price paid. zack.

just tried both of these boot cd's on my aspire 5000 the dam small linux was like lightening, the ubuntu took 10 mins to load up & then it was slow but everything seems to work ok. zack. Recycle food today, eat a beef lamb or chicken burger for dinner & tea. I'm dreaming of a "NON-RACIST"...

I have an aspire 5000, normal hd settings, "ie" hard drive split into 3 partitions, small 2.9 gig partition with the software on it, then 2 partitions of around 30 gig each. This is a 32 bit system, what i want to know is if i format the 2 x 30 gig partitions to ntfs will i still be able to put...

Anyone here...............help................... Just a small queery, i had a load of crap on the c drive so i did an alt + f12 recovery, fine i got it back to factory standard, in other words i have all the crap on i got rid of. How do i use the 3 cd's that came with the computer, there are...

Hi, people. Does anybody know if there is such a thing as a schematic drawing for the acer aspire 5002wlmi. I don't want to strip the laptop down i just want to see where everything is inside. I know that there is not one on the site, so any kind person out there help me.

just a queery, is the aspire 5000 supposed to be a 512 chip or 2 x 256 chips. zack. Recycle food today, eat a beef or chicken burger for dinner & tea. I'm dreaming of a "NON-RACIST" christmas, well what can you put in there. England, A land of thugs, hoodies, chav's, scumbag kids, drunks &...

Hi folks. if & when i need to put xp home back on my aspire 5002wlmi, will it format my c: drive, d: drive & the other small 2.9 gig hidden hard drive. only reason is im using my d drive as a small ftp server, & would hate to lose all my files. will be using the cds that came with it.

Last night I lost 90%+ of my LCD brightness. All data appears just fine on the screen though...it's just like looking at it with sunglasses on. Does this sound like a backlight issue? If so, does anyone here have experience with getting one replaced (i.e. repair shop recommendation)? Also,...

Has anyone else found that the wireless LAN connection drops and reconnects every 3-5 minutes? My brand enw TravelMate C303Xmi Tablet Pc is doing it and it drives me nuts... any suggestions? I was on hold with their tech support for 10min when the hour hit 9pm and I got disconnected because...

This has got to be something simple... :) It seems that everytime after CDROM stops spinning, it will need to be first restarted until the system (XP Pro) can process any further user actions (such as clicking a link on a web page or copying/pasteing text etc.). This causes irritating 1-3 second...