Posts by pegazuz

1) Do you prefer to build your own PC’s or buy a branded system? a) Prefer to build my own 2) How often do you replace or upgrade your PC? d) 2 – 3 years 3) How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? a) Sounds like it...

I upgraded my Acer Aspire 5102WLMi to 4 GB RAM and it runs much faster. Has anyone tried Windows 7 64 bit OS on this model?

Quote: Originally Posted by pegazuz I removed the Empowering technology software since it never seemed to work for more than a few days and then required a restore to get rid of error messages and to get it to work...

Quote: Originally Posted by [NFO]N0S the acer 5100 series has a huge logic board issues. it can be repaired but requires re-flowing of a b.g.a. chip. What symptoms does this create? How is it fixed and what...

Is there other software that works better for these functions?

I removed the Empowering technology software since it never seemed to work for more than a few days and then required a restore to get rid of error messages and to get it to work again.. I wonder what software people are using to provide...

Quote: Originally Posted by pharlaptop That was an older version and a different laptop- I forget the one before Dapper. And it's never happened to me using Edgy or Dapper on my Aspire 5102. I am very happy with the way...

Quote: Originally Posted by Evaders99 Xpress 1100 is a relabelled Radeon 200M. The graphics card itself isn't powerful enough to handle it. It doesn't matter how much RAM you have. Is it worth updating the...

Quote: Originally Posted by pharlaptop Are you using linux by chance? That used to happen to me with Ubuntu. Every time I booted into it, it would reduce the brightness to unreadable. But it stayed constant once I...

Quote: Originally Posted by adinu Well, that's good to know. I always thought that if u deleted the partition, the recovery cd's were useless. I guess its different for Acer laptops, because I definitely tried this...