Posts by bwethington

Update: Well, I received the laptop back on Monday and decided to live with it a week before posting anything in regards to it. So far, what a nice laptop. The weight and size of the screen are just wonderful, and my battery life...

I had the same problem, although I could see the grey lines (it didn't bother me much, as one of my other laptops has the issue, and has for the 3 years I have had it...no worries). I sent mine back to acer to get the screen fixed (the...

I found this little blurb on notebook battery maintenance: http://www.laptopbattery.net/noteboo...ries_life.html basically, it says that if you use AC power to run the laptop, take the battery out and store it in a cool place (not...

Quote: Originally Posted by Whugster Look for frequency choke or choke coils. They seem quite similar, although their exact purpose is not something I am sure about. These things are capable of making static...

Quote: Originally Posted by mazdaspd96 Hi Folks! I just discovered this forum. I read a lot of post of you and it seems there is a lot of problems with the Acer Travelmate 8204. I'm suppose to buy this computer on...

I would say that it is worth the money to get a decent G wireless router for home. They are pretty simple to set up, then you don't have to worry about having one machine always on to act as the host computer. If you are using a...

Huh, I wonder why the x1600 didn't do so well in the encoding portion. I thought that was the sweet spot of this card. Granted, you can only use Avivo with the x1000 cards, but still... I'd agree. Think how well they might be doing...

Quote: copy file VGA\Driver\INSTALL.INI to cat63\Driver\INSTALL.INI, patch target file: --- VGA\Driver\INSTALL.INI Fri Dec 02 17:26:04 2005 +++ cat63\Driver\INSTALL.INI Tue Mar 28 00:08:24 2006 @@ -9,4 +9,4...

Quote: Originally Posted by BOFH1971 actually that sounds like bad vga memory, or a failed overclock if you are overclocking the card stop else send the machine back because the ram with the gpu is faulty had this...

Quote: Originally Posted by jkelleher Gee guys - no buzzing other than in the Tokamak physics programs. I can confirm (at least with mine) that that is not the case. I run 3D modelling programs, and even the...