Posts by DarthAcer

My experience with Adobe software is that one-to-one disk copy does not preserve activation. I used Paragon tools (worked best for me thus far compared to Acronis and Norton ones) for drive copy. My guess is Adobe builds activation...

Check ftp://ftp.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_1690_ddr/bios/ or ftp://ftp.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_1690_ddr2/bios/ depending on the particular model.

I assume it's 3650, not 3560. It's a 128-bit memory bus video card with not so much video RAM so it will be your bottleneck in games with high resolution LCD. If you run games at native LCD resolution, you won't get good frame rates. ...

Most of the graphics design software runs equally well on all PCs (Mac is and Apple branded PC these days). Where Mac (actually OSX) shines is in color management system. Unfortunately, due to technical limitations in color support on...

Since it does not work when you remove the battery and judging from the description of how it behaves when the battery is in, I suspect there is an intermittent loss of contact somewhere. I could be in or around the power connector on...

Since it works fine fine with external keyboard, it appears to be an issue with BIOS (BIOS handles built-in keyboard) or driver that Launch Manager installs (although I'm not sure if it does that in Vista). Launch Manager in Win XP...

As far as I remember, while restoring from CD(s), you have a choice to create default partitions (first is exactly the size of first partition the laptop came with, second is the rest of drive) or leave drive as you have partitioned it...

You are right, Michelle, Win XP built-in Wireless Connection icon shows that. Using Gigabyte's own utility (the card is Gigabyte GN-WI06N), I could see higher speeds up to almost 300 under ideal conditions. Unfortunately, that utility...

I put and Atheros based N card into my friend's TravelMate 8200, two antennas, connected to main and aux, middle connector is unused. Win XP shows 130Mbps. Works wonderfully.

I think that you have gamma curve/settings screwed. Look for the gamma settings for your video card and reset it to default (straight diagonal line). Tweaking gamma may cause that blotchiness (some colors are sort of...