Posts by Fishd

Quote: Originally Posted by efalis Works, though. It might "work" ... but it also might be crippling the performance of your new Dual-Core laptop... I think a call to Microsoft is in order.

You need to google for KB909095... it's a known Microsoft fault with laptops that have more than 1Gb of RAM. I found a website where a guy is having the same issue with his Toshiba Tecra M4, he's posted a link to the file Microsoft...

Is this in the UK? My personal experience with Acer warranty support in the UK has been extremely annoying. My laptop was returned after only 24 hours due to a BIOS fault... I got a sheet explaining that it was a software fix and...

Does the 5672 have a builtin webcam like the 8204? I've got the 8204, installed Alcohol 120% and got the error you describe... on my machine it's a DLL conflict between the webcam software and Alcohol... initially I found the...

Underneath the harddrive is a Broadcom 'bcm92045nmd' module. Google'ing this shows that it is a bluetooth module.

Sorry to keep replying to my own posts, but I thought I'd share this. I rang technical support again as my Bluetooth module is now not recognised. They told me that the motherboard in my laptop was replaced, this was not mentioned on...

Hmm, the laptop has been returned. The repair note contains the following, emphasis is mine: "Software Fix, Removed BIOS password, found customers OS corrupt, updated BIOS and ran recovery pre loaded XP Pro. Ran hardware...

I was told by an Acer rep that if they have to put a default password into something then it will be six zeros (000000). I tried this to no avail. I also tried a few I found on the web such as 'default', 'password' and 'phoenix', all...

Perhaps I didn't explain as clearly as I thought... when I power on the notebook now it is *not* a WindowsXP password prompt but a BIOS one. I can hold down CTRL, ALT + ESC while powering on and it will prompt me to press F2 to enter the...

Quote: Originally Posted by draugdel Yeah, but converted partitions are slower than original ones. So I generally would not suggest converting . First off, slower is a relevant term. A converted partition...