Posts by bkray1

Hello again, Thanks for the advice, but I've decided to call it quits with the 3400. Purchased a macbook pro laptop and getting that set up now.

Hi qhn, I'm having difficulties getting the external CD-rom to serve as the boot drive. It always just boots straight to windows. I've made a slipstreamed windows XP3 disk. The external usb cdrom will recognize the contents and i can...

It looks like my DVD drive needs replaced. Can I replace it with one that is similar or does it need to be the exact part. I can't seem to locate a replacement. I am trying to reinstall the operating system and it will not boot to the...

ok, thanks. I'll see if i can figure out how to take it apart and clean it. I've never done that to a laptop before.

Hi all, My ferrari 3400 may be experiencing a slow death of the video card. I have been noticing weird graphic glitches. I have the latest legacy drivers installed. Was thinking about trying the new Cats if i can figure out he modding...

Hi Kej and Qhn, Thanks for the info. The current drivers I have are the last set that Omega released, which have been out for awhile. I seem to do ok with them, however I tried to play Overlord 2 and it just crashed on startup each...

Hi all, I am in the process of trying to update my video drivers. I currently use Omega's latest, but they haven't been updated in awhile. Browsing the driver list at the start of this post, I see a few options but am unsure of what...

well, let us know what acer decides to do for you. I submitted a service request and they responded with a 'canned' response that the Ferrari was only tested with an 80 GB hardrive and they have no further plans or data to support any...

I'm not sure that's it. I installed a brand new drive and did a complete format on it prior to the installation. I used a microsoft copy of windows xp for the install, not the acer recovery disk so there shouldn't be any hidden...

Hi, I have an Acer Ferrari 3400 and i just replaced my hard drive with a 160 GB drive, however the computer only sees about 131 GB. I've read abit about the 137 GB limit and wanted to know if the motherboard/BIOS for this model supports...