Hi, I'm wondering if anyone has encountered these problems I have with my 8204 or is there something I can do to solve these problems or do I have to bring it to Acer service to have them sorted out.
I started using my 8204 (bought in May) more in July and I noticed that it started playing up. First with the MSN live, when I'm typing it was really slooow in showing up then it started to lag. At one point it lagged so badly that it seemed to have frozen up and even the time on the taskbar stood still!
Then I played some movies that's in my D Drive and it was fine then out of the blue it came up with error messages like "Haali Media Splitter....etc., when I restarted it to play another movie it would play just fine or it could come up with another error message like the "Windows Media Player can't play this file. This occur when another program or operation system component encounters a problem but does not communicate the nature of the problem to the player" (yet, there are no other programs running at the time). Sometimes I played the same movie for the first time, it played well without any error showing up. The second time, it could come up with "ePower .......etc" or telling me that there's insufficient memory (when I know I have more than enough) or the processor is insufficient (which is a laugh as I know there's no problem there). That's when I wil not be able to play the movieagain. This problem seems to be intermittent. My 8204 has a mind of its own so it seems!
The other problem is during startup, it would open up the startup screen then it gives me a black screen for awhile and then flips back to the startup screen again which I have to wait again before using any of the programs. Sometimes as it opens up the startup page, it would show the error "epower management dmc.exe" or shows the grey box message without any text like it's trying to show something but decide not to then disappears again.
I have rebooted a few times hoping that it will get rid of the problems but it hasn't. I don't have much technical experience and if anyone can give me some ideas of what to do to have these problems sorted will be much appreciated. My 8204 is still under warranty so I'm wondering if it will be better if I just let Acer sort these problems out. Any ideas anyone?
The other thing is, where my left hand rests on the keyboard to type, that part has gone a darker grey black colour - is that normal on the 8204? Does anyone have this problem too? Is there something one can do to clean that up?
The other thing is when I tried to do a defrag. for the first time since getting the 8204, it was doing it then it seems to freeze on 1% and nothing seems to be happening after that. After waiting it to go further for about one hour, I gave up on the defrag. - is this normal and why is that?
Thanks!
I started using my 8204 (bought in May) more in July and I noticed that it started playing up. First with the MSN live, when I'm typing it was really slooow in showing up then it started to lag. At one point it lagged so badly that it seemed to have frozen up and even the time on the taskbar stood still!
Then I played some movies that's in my D Drive and it was fine then out of the blue it came up with error messages like "Haali Media Splitter....etc., when I restarted it to play another movie it would play just fine or it could come up with another error message like the "Windows Media Player can't play this file. This occur when another program or operation system component encounters a problem but does not communicate the nature of the problem to the player" (yet, there are no other programs running at the time). Sometimes I played the same movie for the first time, it played well without any error showing up. The second time, it could come up with "ePower .......etc" or telling me that there's insufficient memory (when I know I have more than enough) or the processor is insufficient (which is a laugh as I know there's no problem there). That's when I wil not be able to play the movieagain. This problem seems to be intermittent. My 8204 has a mind of its own so it seems!
The other problem is during startup, it would open up the startup screen then it gives me a black screen for awhile and then flips back to the startup screen again which I have to wait again before using any of the programs. Sometimes as it opens up the startup page, it would show the error "epower management dmc.exe" or shows the grey box message without any text like it's trying to show something but decide not to then disappears again.
I have rebooted a few times hoping that it will get rid of the problems but it hasn't. I don't have much technical experience and if anyone can give me some ideas of what to do to have these problems sorted will be much appreciated. My 8204 is still under warranty so I'm wondering if it will be better if I just let Acer sort these problems out. Any ideas anyone?
The other thing is, where my left hand rests on the keyboard to type, that part has gone a darker grey black colour - is that normal on the 8204? Does anyone have this problem too? Is there something one can do to clean that up?
The other thing is when I tried to do a defrag. for the first time since getting the 8204, it was doing it then it seems to freeze on 1% and nothing seems to be happening after that. After waiting it to go further for about one hour, I gave up on the defrag. - is this normal and why is that?
Thanks!
