Posts by mb76

Honest answer, don't know, in theory yes. Just found this: http://forum.notebookreview.com/arch.../t-166732.html not 100% answered but will give you an idea hopefully

I have a 5633, all the drivers on Acers website are listed under 5630. I think 5630 is the model range with the last number being changed for different variations. If you start here: http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/ftp/ftp.html go...

Have you gone into the change advance settings (Control Panel>Power Options>Edit Plan Settings) this gives different options for battery and plugged in. Personally I stick with a slightly tweaked version of Balanced, seems to give...

Why not just tweak the settings of the high performance plan, make the battery settings the same as power saver

Thanks, rolled the BIOS back to an earlier version and that seems to of done the trick

I get a weird message in my system event log, appears at every login and I'm not sure what it is: 'The embedded controller (EC) did not respond within the specified timeout period. This may indicate that there is an error in the EC...

Hoping someone knows the answer to this, I currently have BIOS v3.10 on my Aspire 5630. I have downloaded and unsuccessfully installed both v3.23 & v3.50. The BIOS program runs and everything appears to work as it should but on...

Where did you manage to get that picture from, I've been looking everywhere for a service manual and can't seem to find one!

At a guess I'd say you need to check your keyboard settings, UK keyboards have a " on the 2 key, I believe (and don't quote me on this) US keyboard layout has @ on the 2 key, tho why everyone can't just use the same is beyond me

I bought the previous version of this back in feb, was £499 then. Only difference I can see is the harddrive is smaller and the graphics aren't quite as good. I've had no issuses with mine, only thing it could do with is some more RAM...