Posts by Metil

Hello Wiz33, Are you sure you like the sound coming out of the built-in speakers? No offence ment but have you heard sound coming out of some really good sound system (at least 2.1 or higher)? Again, I don't mean anything offensive...

The most interesting thing in this laptop is sound. If it is the same as in TM8104 (ie disgusting sound) then Acer guys didn't fix the major problem of TM8100 line

jackliu1980, As you see, Ghungha, gave you the link from official web-site (though I still can't understand how he found it). This means that even if something goes wrong you can contact ATI. Also there is guarantee that in that files...

Hi steevee, Thank you for the suggestion but my TM8104 comes with WinXP Pro OEM and I don't have OEM edition CD. All I could find was Windows Retail which has the same functionality but just doesn't accept OEM key (I checked it).

Hi Ghungha, Well, the link you gave was the first one that worked for me Could you please let me know how you found it? If I go to www.ati.com I cannot find this link anywhere. How did you know that this particular link leads to the...

Hi, Do we need to copy the whole /i386 folder? Is it possible to copy only some files? I think that the only thing we need to achieve is to make the Win CD accept our oem key. I don't think we need to copy the whole /i386 though I...

Hi Ransom! Thanks for your warm words, I really appreciate your support. Well, I called them today because I wanted to clarify the description of the problem. I talked to a guy who was (in my opinion) more intelligent - at least he knew...

Well, I cannot say that I had good support though I am in the US My hard drive is working but SMART parameters indicate that it is going to fail. I talked to Acer techsupport guy today. Well, frankly, I doubt that he knows what SMART...

Ok, some updates here if anyone is interested. I have reached Acer techs and I am REALLY DISAPPOINTED with the guy I was talking to. Well, anyway - they agreed to take the laptop and test (the whole laptop no options of hard disk...

Hi Ransomed1, You may check the SMART parameters using any program like HDTune (http://hdtune.com/hdtune_251.exe) which is free and easy to use.