Acer Ferrari 3200 review (just a few pics/couple benches) - Page 43

my ferrarri 3200 got some scratches coz i often put it in the bag.
Is there any way to get rid of the scratches ?? repaint or car wax maybe ??

thx for ur answer

Hi, can you explain how you installed the DNA graphics driver and what clock settings you set to get the Aquamark at 29219.
Thanks

Try some quality car wax (no polisher!) and it will probably help. I wax my Ferrari occationally and that has helped keeping it nice & scratchless

re:wikedlam

You can dowload the latest dna drivers at http://www.dna-drivers.nl/ , all I did overclocking-wise was set the clocks to 475gpu245mem. I probably could have overclocked it more, but I'm more worried about improving battery life and was just testing to see if there was any improvement in my scores. As a side note, you can also easily overclock your cpu using clockgen, (it wasn't overclocked for the aquamark score, but I'm sure it would help) I run mine at 1900mhz all the time no problem, and again, I could probably go higher but it's fast enough for me.

Thanks LithiumCharles for the info, by the way, can you tell me what voltage you got to set on your ferrari to gain the extra battery life? I read the link you posted but just want to check what you got out of the tests.

Thanks again

RE:wikedlam

On battery I set the mutiplier to 4.5, reaching a modest 900mhz at .8v (the lowest setting allowed). And as an update, I can get about 3hr42min without wireless and no music, and around 3hr17min listening to music and with wireless on. It is fairly easy to reach these settings without trouble(at least in my trials) and I would assume you should see similar gains.

thats astonishing, 3hours 42mins wow.. and someone on another topic was slating AMD64 for having a crap battery life....

VGA problem?

Hi, guys.

I'm new here and with my Acer. I bought it almost two months ago and so far have been experiencing some problems with graphics.

After installing original Acer video drivers, the computer crashed and did not recover - I had to format it. This repeated several times every time after installing the video drivers. Then I found out about the Omega drivers. Everything has been going quite fine so far, but today a blank milk-color screen appeared and the Windows did not load again. Now I've disabled the video drivers and everything goes o.k., except the blue MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION window and that fuzzy one after coming back from the Standby regime (I know this has been already discussed, so you don't need to repeat yourselves) appearing sometimes.

I wrote several e-mails to Acer, they asked me to send the notebook to them, because there is probably a problem with the graphics card. Unfortunately, I definitely can't send the computer now, and since you, guys, seem more proficient and reliable than the Acer Customer Service is, I decided to ask your opinion.

My Acer 3200 is a standard one:
AMD 64 1.8 GHz
512 RAM
ATI Radeon 9700 128 MB
80 GB hard drive
Windows XP SP2 OS

Thanks a lot for replies.

Regards,
Algirdas

Just out of curiosity algirdas, does it only happen when you are on AC power, I only ask this because the card is underclocked when running off the battery and it would let us know if it is merely a stability issue with the card at stock speeds.

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[quote=algirdas2004]
After installing original Acer video drivers, the computer crashed and did not recover - I had to format it. This repeated several times every time after installing the video drivers. Then I found out about the Omega drivers. Everything has been going quite fine so far, but today a blank milk-color screen appeared and the Windows did not load again.

I have encountered such kind of problem before.I think you should check the memory with MemTest86 V3.1. It is the problem of the bad memory not the graphics driver. I hope this can help you!

There's now a test version of RadLinker out that fixes this standby issue:
http://driverheaven.net/showthread.p...265#post495265

I expect it to be included in the next version of the Omega drivers, but you should install it now to see if it solves your problem too.

I could hardly tell when such things happen. It seems they appear randomly, sometimes running on battery, sometimes - on AC power. Sometimes the blank or blue screen appears just after loading Windows, sometimes - after several hours of normal work. It's really hard to predict when something similar will happen...

Thanks everyone for replies. I will try the MemTest, more news will follow then.

Regards,
Algirdas

anyone played Half Life 2 on a standard 3200?? How does it perform??

yesterday night i was curious if i could surpass 30000 points on aquamark .. so following all the helpful guides of overclocking in this huge topic and the one found on extreme overclock i started setting up my 3200

through powerstrip i set the core speed at - 486/246 mem
then put my power scheme to always on and then used clockgen and set my HTT to 208.03 which put my CPU clock speed at a nice 1872Ghz.... and so we begin, after a few failed attempts.. i finally got it working at these settings and i am happy to say i broke the 30000 mark on aquamark coming in at 30284 (GFX=3738 CPU=7975)

but anyway i want to say thank you to snorre and whoever else put up helpful tweaking guides because if you didnt then it wouldnt of been possible for me to reach my goal...

Install WinXP

hi
i can not do i clean install with out the f*** reinstall program/disc change the ntfs to lovely fat32 system can someone tell me to do it without that!
Can i download winxp from the net and install it with my serial or it that crazy?

And i dont see the amd power alternative in the energyalternatives. I have sp2 installed and i have the amd power now and drivers for the cpu, i have the amd dashboard to

And can someone public the newest drivers for the ferrari 3200 and links!

Thanks for the good forum

Hi

I just receved my ferrari 3200 now I want to update the BIOS, but don|t know how, (no disket) is there anybody willing to explain the procedure??

You have to download WinPlash or something, you can flash your BIOS when your still in windows. Im sure there is a downloadlink for that program on the same page as you found your bios. The support site of acer.

Yes, it runs smooth in 1280x1024x32 with high detail settings.

Wow, that's really awesome - congratulations!

Thanks, it's always a pleasure to be of help