Posts by trains are bad

Well it IS a travelmate 8104. Does that mean it's one of the easy ones. I checked, and the manual doesn't have any detailed instructions for taking it apart, go figure. I suppose somewhere on the web is a guide.

I've had this thing for a year and a bit. The screen is right now exteremely flaky. It will go all red, all great, develop green patches, get scrolling lines etc. If I flex the notebook around and wiggle the screen on the hinges,...

I have an 8104 notebook I've had for about a year and some, and I always use the card reader for my xD card. I just went to download some pictures off a friend's SD card, and got an instant BSOD. That's the first time I've tried to use...

Something is wrong with mine; it does not show continuity through the center conductor. The power brick part is fine; I just need the approximately 5mm diameter 90* DC power plug. I know there are about a million variations on this basic...

My flash card reader on my 8104 started acting up a couple weeks ago and now it doesn't work at all. Where would I start trying to get this fixed?

I didn't abandon desktops for laptops. I never had a desktop. I love my Acer 8104. I does everything I really need to do. I knew I could get a nice laptop cheaper than a desktop and a laptop so that's what I got. If I was at all...

Well, it works in a way... Headphone jacks on (pc) laptops are bad in general, but this is the worst one I've seen. It will not drive headphones to any decent volume and sounds bad anyway. I made a several pages long thread back in...

Acer 8104 headphone jack is truly worthless. Otherwise 100%

Perhaps you can just change the layout it XP and use the current keyboard, perhaps with relabeled keys? I type Dvorak on an 8104 , even now. I never bother to relabel the keys either.

Yep that red thing is the headphone jack. Please, do not use it for anything but beeps and AIM noises. You will find it completely worthless for driving any headphones for any entertainment. It is the worst headphone jack I have...