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Acer Aspire M3610 desktop with Win XP Home
Hi,
Now almost a year ago I bought an Acer Aspire M3610 desktop PC that came with Vista Home Premium preloaded, but on which I installed Windows XP Home instead. While it has generally been working pretty much OK, there is an issue that has arisen a couple of times. Namely: I have a few external USB HD drives that I tend to connect to one of the 4 USB ports at the top of the Aspire case. While this works fine most of the time, after some time I tend to get problems, with the USB drive not seeming to work anymore, or worse, the whole system freezing up. (OTOH, a USB stick will still work OK.) This problems only tends to go away by reinstalling XP, and then it works fine - for a while anyway. I was wondering if any of you have any feedback that might help. All info is greatly appreciated! |
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Acer Aspire M3610 desktop with Win XP Home
"Lukas Mariman" wrote in message ... Hi, Now almost a year ago I bought an Acer Aspire M3610 desktop PC that came with Vista Home Premium preloaded, but on which I installed Windows XP Home instead. While it has generally been working pretty much OK, there is an issue that has arisen a couple of times. Namely: I have a few external USB HD drives that I tend to connect to one of the 4 USB ports at the top of the Aspire case. While this works fine most of the time, after some time I tend to get problems, with the USB drive not seeming to work anymore, or worse, the whole system freezing up. (OTOH, a USB stick will still work OK.) This problems only tends to go away by reinstalling XP, and then it works fine - for a while anyway. I was wondering if any of you have any feedback that might help. All info is greatly appreciated! I may or may not be correct on this, but some computers are designed to work with Vista, which many of us don't like. It's really not that bad, and I dare say reinstalling Vista might resolve your problems. |
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Acer Aspire M3610 desktop with Win XP Home
"Sheldon" schreef in bericht ... "Lukas Mariman" wrote in message ... Hi, Now almost a year ago I bought an Acer Aspire M3610 desktop PC that came with Vista Home Premium preloaded, but on which I installed Windows XP Home instead. While it has generally been working pretty much OK, there is an issue that has arisen a couple of times. Namely: I have a few external USB HD drives that I tend to connect to one of the 4 USB ports at the top of the Aspire case. While this works fine most of the time, after some time I tend to get problems, with the USB drive not seeming to work anymore, or worse, the whole system freezing up. (OTOH, a USB stick will still work OK.) This problems only tends to go away by reinstalling XP, and then it works fine - for a while anyway. I was wondering if any of you have any feedback that might help. All info is greatly appreciated! I may or may not be correct on this, but some computers are designed to work with Vista, which many of us don't like. It's really not that bad, and I dare say reinstalling Vista might resolve your problems. Thanks for responding! My initial experience with Vista was mixed. I wanted to use it, but almost immediately found that several apps and some of my favourite games wouldn't work right - or wouldn't work at all. On top of that, HP never bothered releasing Vista drivers for my existing printer & scanner. All this made me somewhat reluctant to go Vista. :-/ But I'm afraid you may be right; maybe I should give Vista another chance (and maybe save my sanity in the process)! |
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Acer Aspire M3610 desktop with Win XP Home
"Lukas Mariman" wrote in message ... "Sheldon" schreef in bericht ... "Lukas Mariman" wrote in message ... Hi, Now almost a year ago I bought an Acer Aspire M3610 desktop PC that came with Vista Home Premium preloaded, but on which I installed Windows XP Home instead. While it has generally been working pretty much OK, there is an issue that has arisen a couple of times. Namely: I have a few external USB HD drives that I tend to connect to one of the 4 USB ports at the top of the Aspire case. While this works fine most of the time, after some time I tend to get problems, with the USB drive not seeming to work anymore, or worse, the whole system freezing up. (OTOH, a USB stick will still work OK.) This problems only tends to go away by reinstalling XP, and then it works fine - for a while anyway. I was wondering if any of you have any feedback that might help. All info is greatly appreciated! I may or may not be correct on this, but some computers are designed to work with Vista, which many of us don't like. It's really not that bad, and I dare say reinstalling Vista might resolve your problems. Thanks for responding! My initial experience with Vista was mixed. I wanted to use it, but almost immediately found that several apps and some of my favourite games wouldn't work right - or wouldn't work at all. On top of that, HP never bothered releasing Vista drivers for my existing printer & scanner. All this made me somewhat reluctant to go Vista. :-/ But I'm afraid you may be right; maybe I should give Vista another chance (and maybe save my sanity in the process)! I have 4 computers, and I hate Vista, too. However, my one computer that is running Vista runs great and I wouldn't swap it out, assuming it will probably cause more problems than it will solve. I think the problem with operating systems that seem to be matched to certain computers is more apparent with notebooks than desktop computers, what with the special drivers and all. Fortunately my Acer came with XP. |
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Acer Aspire M3610 desktop with Win XP Home
On Mar 18, 4:06*am, "Sheldon" wrote:
"Lukas Mariman" wrote in message ... "Sheldon" schreef in bericht ... "Lukas Mariman" wrote in message ... Hi, Now almost a year ago I bought an Acer Aspire M3610 desktop PC that came with Vista Home Premium preloaded, but on which I installed Windows XP Home instead. While it has generally been working pretty much OK, there is an issue that has arisen a couple of times. Namely: I have a few external USB HD drives that I tend to connect to one of the 4 USB ports at the top of the Aspire case. While this works fine most of the time, after some time I tend to get problems, with the USB drive not seeming to work anymore, or worse, the whole system freezing up. (OTOH, a USB stick will still work OK.) This problems only tends to go away by reinstalling XP, and then it works fine - for a while anyway. I was wondering if any of you have any feedback that might help. All info is greatly appreciated! I may or may not be correct on this, but some computers are designed to work with Vista, which many of us don't like. *It's really not that bad, and I dare say reinstalling Vista might resolve your problems. Thanks for responding! My initial experience with Vista was mixed. I wanted to use it, but almost immediately found that several apps and some of my favourite games wouldn't work right - or wouldn't work at all. On top of that, HP never bothered releasing Vista drivers for my existing printer & scanner. All this made me somewhat reluctant to go Vista. :-/ But I'm afraid you may be right; maybe I should give Vista another chance (and maybe save my sanity in the process)! I have 4 computers, and I hate Vista, too. *However, my one computer that is running Vista runs great and I wouldn't swap it out, assuming it will probably cause more problems than it will solve. *I think the problem with operating systems that seem to be matched to certain computers is more apparent with notebooks than desktop computers, what with the special drivers and all. *Fortunately my Acer came with XP.- Hide quoted text - I see what you mean. Allright, I think I'll give Vista another chance. It will probably save me some headaches. :-) |
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