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I just thought I had crashed my Acer Aspire 1712 - I plugged a wrong device into the PS2-port and suddenly the notebook switched off. After that everything was dead. The on/off switch did not work anymore. Nothing. I called Acer...

I just thought I had crashed my Acer Aspire 1712 - I plugged a wrong device into the PS2-port and suddenly the notebook switched off. After that everything was dead. The on/off switch did not work anymore. Nothing. I called Acer...

Quote: Originally Posted by samendolaro It is a great feature which I use all the time. But not here.... It does not work.. It loads and then hangs just before the screen comes on.. I even installed a fresh xp with no...

Quote: Originally Posted by mightybunny Little question can you use the bios update on a computer i bought in belgium? because i cant find it anywhere on the website of acer benelux and also not on acer europe...

Quote: Originally Posted by samendolaro Anyone have any success with the Standby or Hibernate modes ? Seems that 95% of the time the system can bnot recover (screen remains blank) I had some problems with...

Just for the European folks here: you can buy Acer Advantage package which covers a 3 year warranty including damage ($100 if the screen is broken). This cost around $150 to $200 (depends where you buy it). The great thing abouth...

Regarding the noise: I had the 1711 first - this was very silent because the fan does not kick in so often. But the graphic performance was too bad. So I got th 1712. The noise disapointed me a bit. So I got a ZD7020. This was...

I think I am a OS junky After installing Win2K I tried it again with the newest Knoppix version (this is a CD bootable debian based Linux distribution) Everything worked fine. It uses power management so the fan is as usual and...

I got Win2K running on the 1712. The tip came from Acer support - on the recovery disk 1 are all drivers for XP. So I installed all this drivers into Win2K and after doing all updates from MS everything is working...

Quote: Originally Posted by arokis I found drivers only to the 1700 model, and only for winXP, you may try them with win2k, but they do not have to work. Contact acer support on that matter, they have to supply you...