Posts by FerrariZoid

Quote: Originally Posted by AcerF4005 Thanks for the reply. How exactly do you check the temps on the laptop? Is it okay to use a household vacuum cleaner to suck the dust off? You updated your BIOS and it constantly...

I bought my F4005 the same time you did. Mine just recently started get hot while playing GalCiv2 and the new bios would reboot it. I removed all the bottom plates and sucked the dust dry everywhere I could, including vents, with a...

Hello Acerites (hey, all brands suck LOL), I pull the bottom plate off my ferrari, and I can see the two 512 ram chips. Am I able to upgrade to 2 1gig chips from here, or do I have to take off the keyboard as I thought I read way...

Quote: Originally Posted by Wiz33 The fact that the GPU is on a MXM card means nothing. There is no guarantee that any future GPU will work with the existing power/cooling fixture in the laptop. Hell,...

Quote: Originally Posted by lupin..the..3rd HD-DVD is dead. Where are the BluRay laptop drives?? Lupin, I have to disagree with you on that one....I think BluRay will be around but go the way of the memory...

It doesn't, yet.

Half Life 2 runs great on my Ferrari 4000 with Vista 64 and the latest Catalyst drivers from ATI. I think I'll try CS:Source and check it out.

Before I spent much money on that laptop, I'd just go ahead and get a new one...but damn, it's not that old. I've had a garbled screen a couple of times which I believed to be driver/software related. A reboot cleared it up. I would...

Quote: Originally Posted by mkmcgregor Same with my 5570. No problems. Of course I never upgraded the drivers on that box; other than WHQL drivers from MS update if there were any. FerrariZoid, did you ever upgrade...

Quote: Originally Posted by farjars Similar problem here 64bit Vista OEM Home Premium on a Acer Ferrari 4005 and bios 3A23, the computer does not go down in standby properly, screen goes blank but fan and power/network...