Posts by Mr T

So far so good... Upgrade was a wheeze so far, only bug seen so far is with the Software centre which seems to keep crashing on me, but didn't on the system i did a fresh install with.

I know, they are awful even for re-sellers.. Been selling their stuff for years, any returns, major pain...!

You just need a small phillips screw driver. Acer doesn't use any other type of screw, unlees the laptop has been split apart before and the tech has used the wrong screws...

Have you tried: A) Powering it yup without a battery installed B) Powering it up with no hard drive installed C) Powering it up with 1 stick of RAM D) Removing the AC and battery then holding the Power Button down for thirty seconds E)...

Suffer very badly from chipset failure. What operating system is on it?

Things to try: Another Linux flavor, ie Ubuntu, SUSE etc... Try setting the boot device to IDE mode in the BIOS, or if it set to that change it to ACHI mode. Is there a BIOS update for the laptop - some controllers won't accept an SSD,...

No, used the day 1 release disc of 12.10 and updated it fully, then did the nVidia drivers. After that swapped out the motherboard from an nVidia chipset to an AMD one. 12.10 booted in straight away and was really stable, no compiz...

Well an Ubuntu update... It seems to have stabilized now (fingers crossed).. Made the move over to windows 8, a far more polished affair, but still been dabbling with 12.10. Changed the motherboard and it has sped the boot times up....

Alternatively use homeplug or powerline network adaptors to run a network through the home power cables. Avoid companies like D-Link, Belkin and Netgear. They are well known, but their products are poorly supported, expensive and won't...

Yes, it is that bad... I am now stability running Linux Mint 12 64bit with a few tweaks that I ironed out of my old Ubuntu 12.04 setup. TRIM enabled on the SSD with minimal swap space.. All good do far... Is the death knell for a decent...