Posts by Wraith

Haven't posted anything for a while - My 1714 notebook was stolen just before Christmas, so there's been little point (Idiots took the notebook but 1. I don't keep the battery in the notebook. 2. They left the power supply behind. Also...

Luc4net - I'm using a Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 200Gb 7200rpm 8mb Cache ATA133. I remember that about a week after I put my HDD in, someone put a note on this forum saying they couldn't get an ATA133 drive to be recognised at all (can't...

ATA150 should be backwards compatible. I'm using an ATA133 drive in my 1714, no problems at all... unless someone knows differently. Someone asked about the Antec notebook cooler - I've got the larger of the two designs of this, but...

Can find barely any information on the 1800! All I've found, which isn't completely (although for the most part) marketting material is: http://global.acer.com/about/news.asp?id=6474 Here are the pics from Acer....

As DW stated, unmatched pairs are less likely to produce compatibility problems, and I don't think it helped this situation... I'll have to check when I see her next, what RAM she was using with the Acer stock RAM. Does anyone know...

Well, so much for my Acer 1714SMi, it was nice while it lasted, but over the weekend, my girlfriend somehow blew up the motherboard while sticking a 2Gb stick of RAM in it... apparently the RAM's fine, so she's happy. Luckily(?) this...

Pingu, I'm no gamer, but my girlfriend is putting Doom 3 onto my 1714 tonight, and I think Farcry(?) What do you want to know? I'll ask her to check the details, and I'll post them when I'm back in work (after Friday)... I...

(In the UK) the 1714smi also has a supermulti drive which can burn DVD+/-R &RW, as well as RAMs. The 1712 has a normal DVD burner. I don't know whether the 1712 in the US comes with a supermulti drive, I guess not from what I...

DFScotland Not up and running yet: www.ers-limited.co.uk, which I think are based in Plymouth to those of you in the UK. You should be able to contact them on +44 (0) 1752 331999 for general queries. Got the website off the...

drpepper While this makes an unusually large laptop, it does however make an unusually small portable CD player! Oh, wait a minute...