Posts by robburne

I ran the chkdisk utility in XP and it completed without errors. Can anyone recommened a more comprehensive tool? Is a bad sector likely/possible on a brand new notebook? Rob.

It makes no difference, it still takes an age to boot. It almost seems as if the drive is running slow. I have tried removing the IDE controllers and rebooting, serching for new drivers etc,. which leads me to conclude that there is a...

A format would have fixed though wouldn't it? I have formatted the drive more than 10 times when re-installing. Rob.

There are around 22 process running - none of which appear to be suspicious. There were 5 programs running at startup (4 were for adui/video applications) - I've disabled all but 1. The disc is a copy of the original so Iknow it is...

Fresh install of XP. All drivers up to date and latest updates downloaded. The machine is clean - nothing has been installed. Rob.

I honestly cannot rememeber as it was always my intention to remove Vista. I was not the one who originally booted the m,achine out of the box. Since the initial boot would have involved some setup it would have taken longer than usual I...

Hi, I have a brand new Acer Aspire 5536 Notebook. It came pre-shipped with Vista which I did not want. So I tried a fresh install of Win7 - formatted drive etc,. Machine takes 5+ mins to boot so I put this down to a compatibility...

Hi, I have purhcased a new inverter for my A30 and now the display is fine aside from a band (1-2" wide) that runs down the screen, making pixels appear slightly darker than the rest of the screen. It is not disimilar to screen...

Hi, Ok success at last. I purhcased a new inverter ($25 on ebay!), replaced it and now the display is fine aside from a band that run down the screen of about an inch wide which displays darker pixels than the rest of the screen. ...

I have been doing some reading and it seems that there is a common problem with the inverters bloing or simply coming loose. Has anyone experience of this problem? As these are a lot cheaper than the entire LCD I think I will try...