Yes, Ferrari 3200 supports ATA-100. I use the Hitachi 7K60 on my Ferrari 3400. If you are looking for more storage space you should get that Momentus 160GB drive. But, a real increase in performance you'll only get by upgrading to a 7200...
When I run in to problems after installing omegadrivers I reinstall the latest VIA Hyperion drivers (VIA 4in1-chipset driver). It usually works, otherwise I just go back to a version that I know works.
This is what I did to make my owm XP-CD:
Get I386-folder from recoverypartition/CD by simply reinstalling the Original-ACER-XP-installation.
Get wpa.dbl from C:\windows\system32 and replace wpa.db_ in I386-folder.
Copy the content of...
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Originally Posted by sonichero
is it worth updating the drivers???. i think the system dosent remain stable as before.....
1. Allways keep a copy of the drivers you know work. If the new one is bad you...
Get the latest Mobile Catalyst driver (6.6) here http://www.ati.com/online/mobilecatalyst/
Get the latest VIA Hyperion driver (5.09) here http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx...D=1&CatID=1070
and...
Get the latest version of...
MAKE YOUR OWN SYSTEM RESTORE CD/DVD - By The Coaster Factory
How To Create A Bootable Ghost Rescue CD Tutorial
Follow this link and make your own system restore-disk with Norton Ghost.
LAUNCH MANAGER - Registry-hack
Hidden OSD settings...
Since ACER never updates the drivers you need you'll have to find them yourself.
Here are my results so far.
Snorre's "Ferrari 3200/3400 Quick Reference Guide"
Great source of drivers and utilities!
Official ACER FERRARI...