Posts by CrispyUK

Travelmate 8006 is also centre pin +ve, completely different model but might illustrate a trend.

Wow, battery arrived just after lunchtime today, about 24 hours after the call was made - very impressive. Have I got lucky or is AcerUK better than AcerUS with support?

Thanks for all the replies Although it's probably not something others can help with. Gave Acer UK a call this morning and spoke to a very nice lady, she agreed to send out a replacement battery virtually straight away and took all...

Battery shot up to 100% pretty quickly after the last power off, removed AC adaptor again and it dropped 100 - 88 over about 10-15 mins then just powered itself off, no warning.

Have received the following from Acer today: Quote: Hello, Thank you for contacting Acer. Regarding your enquiry, The difference between the easyports are that the easy port III is USB2.0 compatible while the...

Ello all, I'm having some problems with the battery in my Acer TM8006 purchased in February this year. Everything was fine Monday afternoon as I travelled home. Laptop was plugged in at desk when I got back. Later that night I noticed...

Why do Acer use such short connections to their docking stations? The ezDock has the fixed connector and the EasyPort has only a 6 inch station. This type of docking station would be ideal to drop down behind the desk and have all the...

Hello all, Am looking to buy a port replicator for my TM8006 but am confused as to the differences between the Easyport II and Easyport III, the Acer UK site lists exactly the same specification for both, but the EPIII costs more, so...

Used my instincts and set up a full disk FAT-32 partition and formatted it using Ultimate Boot CD. Ran Acer Recovery disks again and was very relieved to see it load WinXP logo on first boot!! Thanks olyteddy, you've saved my...

Thanks for the name, this is the sortof thing I've been looking for. Anyone any advice on how I need to set up the partitions? Tried to install 2000 but got Invalid Partition Table after booting following setup