Posts by chriscatt

Hi Scouser, you may go ahead with dismounting the drive, it can't do it anyway. Then you just follow the next set of instructions to perform a bootup conversion and then remember to put in the name of the drive, usually ACER. You'd be...

Hi, maybe the vents are being blocked somehow? ChrisC

Hi, LCD displays do not behave like CRT monitors, they use response rate not refresh. Perhaps you should perform a search for that instead, beg your pardon but why do you need to know? ChrisC

Hi, please see here http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/XPMyths.html Increasing windows prefecther in the registry from 3 to 5 doesn't make any difference as any figures higher than 3 don't actually exist.... ChrisC

Hi, my 1801 started to take more that 5 mins to register any USB devices. In the end the motherboard was replaced under warrenty. Not saying that this is the problem with your but you should get in touch with Acer repair... ChrisC

Hi, if you've XP then SP2 are the latest usb drivers... ChrisC

Hi, in my experiences with Nero 7 on my desktop, I had quite a few issues when I wanted to uninstall it. Firstly it refused flatly, I had to download a Nero clean tool, re-install then uninstall again, then it cocked up all of my file...

Hi, my 1801 has a very good range, from where my aerial is on the top floor of my house it'll work three floors away in the garden and still show 'very good'. ChrisC

Hi zenjer, I don't know as I've not got your laptop, have you looked in hardware properties to see what DVD-R you've got? ChrisC

Hi, do you realise that even if you region free the drive the software will still be region based unless you've got something like dvd region +css free. See here for firmware that is region free...