Posts by Hellbringer

Quote: Originally Posted by [NFO]N0S I have NEVER seen a dc jack in a dv8000 fail unless it was physically damaged... the DV8000 is really comming what happens is the center pin gets pushed out the back of the...

Quote: Originally Posted by beut It's possible that the wireless switch on motherboard or the wireless card is bad. Try another wireless card to see if there's any difference. ...

lol..... one of my friends at work had this problem and he worked on it for 4-5 hours before he figured it out.... it is a driver issue... just uninstall the sound driver in device manger and download the newone from acer and install it...

try a firmware update... firmware is the "bios" (kinda) on the cd rom. just go the acers website and it should have a download for the cd rom firmware update... Mike

Quote: Originally Posted by ChrizzaiN Hooking up to an external monitor is one of the 1st things that I tried. I tried a couple more things today and noticed that one of the RAM cards actually slows the system down....

it is this one http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu...=3951&os_id=28 it is the utility pack Mike

laptops are like kid they pick everything up and put it in there mouth..... you would not belive what i have found in computers at work.... weed (yes that is right marijuana) cockroches spiders ant hills candle...

Quote: Originally Posted by saugen48 Have you ever tried using canned air to blow out the fan vents (disable the fans first if possible (hold them with the end of a paper clip) so they dont overspin. The best solution...

it might be software. but these are also common to go bad.... do you have more details on what it is doing? is it just displaying a blue??? does it say no device? what is it doing not to work? Mike Hellbringer

Quote: Originally Posted by beut It doesn't hurt to use a cooling pad as this model might run quite hot. If you have two venting grills, your system has two heatsinks: one for CPU, and one for video chip and its memory....