Posts by sailor

It took 3 different phone calls and over an hour and a half to order it. Acer's customer support is exceptionally poor, much worse than US manufacturer's (my last notebook was a Dell, and previous experience with Compaq, HP, IBM &...

Go back a few posts to one that was dated in July, look for the ebay link posted by "Eric_Theis", and see if the guy "ic_man_32" has any left over video boards. He is currently selling motherboards w/o the graphic...

No the Maxtor 250Gb SATA 16Mb drive that you posted a manual of will not work, based on the SATA connector pictured in the manual. You must match the interface (ATA-100) and cable connector as there is no room for any kind of...

I have installed a 500GB HD in the 1712 for working with Hi-Definition video files, the Seagate ST3500841A without issues that uses the ATA-100 interface. Just make sure that the pin-out and interface on the hard drive is the same and...

Will this $35 memory work with our computers? (1712/1714) Ultra ULT31664 1024MB DDR Memory (PC3200 - 400 MHz) http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...ductId=2211681

Quote: Originally Posted by BoyWhatAWorld 500 Gig drive Which 500GB HD are you using? I plan on upgrading soon (in the next couple of weeks). I was planning on the older ATA-100 Seagate Models which can be...

I had something similar happen (blue screen) on boot-ups after tweaking settings I shouldn't have (Partitions C & D were reversed, don't ask me how winblows got so confused). I re-installed windows on top of itself with a...

Quote: Originally Posted by sailor Relatively Idle (after warming up an hour on A/C mains), sufing the net, e-mail, etc.: HD: 50-52C CPU: 45-50C GPU: 56C Immediately after pressing Alt-tab while nVidia...

When I had WEP enabled I had the problem. I reset the wireless access point and disabled WEP and it works fine after that. I did lower the power output to minimize the chance of any neighbors hitching a free ride. Other...

The "inverter board" is P/N 55.A08V7.006 http://www.computerbanter.com/q-t_62...CD-issues.html http://hardware.mcse.ms/archive16-2005-1-137420.html http://us.acer.com/acerpanam/page11....crc=4252467650 has a...