Posts by drpepper

It's probably a waste of my time and effort, but I have a 1.33GHz 15" Powerbook and an Acer 1712SMi (3GHz), and I feel I can add some rational thought and comparisons here with regard to some of the points raised by...

Quote: Originally Posted by doublesixes I downloaded the latest driver from the nvidia site, installed it, (so i thought) but nothing changed. I'm still stuck with driver version 5.3.5.1. There's a note at...

Quote: Originally Posted by Wraith Most of you probably know this already, but to disable the (Audio DJ) buttons on the front before carrying your laptop, press "Fn & F9" and again to...

Subjective "experience" is the same. MS has a page where you can answer some questions to determine which one suits you better. Here's the link: Microsoft - Which XP? Multiple CPU support in Pro is for physical CPUs,...

Quote: Originally Posted by starless Still worried about the hard drive pauses, and why they had to turn off S.M.A.R.T. to get it to stop pausing. Was SMART (monitoring pgm for hard drives) finding something wrong? ...

Quote: don't have a usb floppy... any alternatives? Click the link several posts up for WinPhash. Just click and go. Worked like a charm...no fuss, no muss. This is my first experience running without a floppy...

Thanks, Renac. It looks like this is about solved. I spotted that thread after I posted this. I 'm glad I found this forum. It was really the only place I came looking for potential user info on this problem.

I called twice. First, I was told I'd have to send it in to be looked at. I just couldn't accept that. I called back and found out that they had been receiving problem reports and were just putting things together; It was an intentional...

I just got an acer Aspire 1710. Apparently there is a HD standby/spindown timer setting that's at 40 seconds of inactivity. I poked around and couldn't find anything obvious. The BIOS is very spartan. Anyone have any idea how to...