Posts by aromanos

It has a "dual" jack in the sense it is both a S/PDIF and a headphones/line-out jack. On the Realtek AC97 control panel you can switch the operation between No Output, Output Digital Only and Output digital and analog. The...

It's the ALC250. To check out by yourself, go to the "Sound Effect Manager" applet on the Control Panel (It's part of the standard Realtek driver). Then click on the "General" tab an there you have the AC'97 Codec ...

I just noticed Realtek released new drivers a couple days ago. I haven't seem here any post about that The release notes tell that two things were fixed for ATI chipsets: removed pop noise and a C3 state issue. In fact, I was...

Windows XP x64 doesn't support DOS or 16-bit applications at all. Read under "Key Differences" here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...loringx64.mspx The only possible work around is to keep a 32-bit version of Windows...

It's really cool that Acer is preloading it in the UK. Too bad that is not happening in Spain, at least right now. So I guess I'll have to get mine here: http://global.acer.com/support/windo...sional-x64.htm They say the CDs...

Games: I've tried a demo of Battlefield 2 and the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 (yeh older version). Both are 32-bit and I haven't found any problem with them yet. In fact, I seem to get more frames on both. Performance: As I...

I couldn't find that newer BIOS version either. My guess is that it hasn't been released yet. It might had been preloaded on the last manufactured machines though. That said, I'm a very happy user of Windows XP Pro x64 since a couple...