Posts by hodgie_ns

You can use NHC for a temp monitor, it does a lot of other things too, except no fan rpm speed google "Notebook Hardware Control"

Anyone figure out how 8204 gets better battery life?

Easy 3 hours surfing but I always need to force the ATI powerplay settings back down to Optimal Battery life (and 40% bright, cpu low, wifi only) If you re-formatted you laptop and aren't familiar with KB899179 (oem view only) and...

Hey folks, simple guy here with a simple problem. (noob) I have never owned a DVDR until the 5672. With my desktop CDR, when I needed to put some files on CDR, I'd just drag them to the drive and press the 'write these files to disk...

I can only tell you about the 5672 that retails at Compusa, model comes installed with 2G ram and a 5400rpm 120G hdd. Ive been using xilinx and wireless almost exclusively. Seems durable enough, i carry it around in a book bag with no...

Acer was thoughtful enough to pre-install adobe reader 7 but they seemed to have removed a file named 'Adobe Reader 7.0.msi' needed when the auto update utility prompts to get latest updates. I did a search on c and didn't find this...

Hi folks, I've got a couple of questions here; I have the 'Norton Antivirus' icon sitting on the desktop, does this install the latest version of NAV? Does it have a coutesy 6 month subcription with the acer install? Is it worth it or...

I'm sure I am doing something wrong here but every time I reboot, eNet Management chooses the "Auto" profile and I connect to one of my neighbors unsecured wireless connections. I tried to edit the Auto profile but it is...