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post #981 of 1272
1/7/05 at 10:35am
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Originally Posted by fskidd
I am using 2 X Kingston 1G DDR400 with my ferrari and works perfect. You should not doubt the quality of Kingston.
Part number please!
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post #982 of 1272
1/7/05 at 1:51pm
Hi, been reading this forum for a while after stumbling across it looking for updated firmware for the DVD drive! As it happens snorre, have you found anything yet? Damn region locks eh?

I've used SP2 since day 1 with no problems or the BSOD (acer recommend you uninstall the stock bluetooth drivers before upgrading to SP2) - saying that as soon as i got the machine i formatted and stuck my own copy of xp pro with "updated" drivers off the acer website so maybe theres an issue with the acer disks they supply.....

Was there any reason why Acer shipped the 3200 with xp home in Fat32? (i'm sure this has already been covered but this thread is huge!). Is it possible to install with another copy of xp home(in NTFS) and change the product key (with a key changer) to the one supplied with the notebook? Just seems abit long winded converting from fat32 after installing windows.
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post #983 of 1272
1/7/05 at 6:05pm
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Originally Posted by snorre
Part number please!
KVR400X64SC3A/1G

I have used for more than two months without any problem. I have also checked with MemTest86 without any errors.
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post #984 of 1272
1/7/05 at 6:11pm
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Originally Posted by fskidd
KVR400X64SC3A/1G

I have used for more than two months without any problem. I have also checked with MemTest86 without any errors.
Cool And you've confirmed with e.g. CPU-Z that the memory really run at DDR400 speeds too?
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post #985 of 1272
1/7/05 at 7:02pm
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Originally Posted by snorre
Cool And you've confirmed with e.g. CPU-Z that the memory really run at DDR400 speeds too?
Sure. I have checked it with CPU-Z and Sandra 2005.

The parameters are 3-3-3-8.
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post #986 of 1272
1/7/05 at 7:50pm
YES!!! I've bought one now!!!

I've been following this thread since it started, and have saved and saved, and today, now I finally bought it!!! 11.997,93 DKR [1,612.65€] (Hi Snorre, your my country neighbour! Hehe.

I'm so thrilled However, I read that there's come a heat/fan issue, where it starts at 39 Celcius instead of the old 49 degrees. That's a shame. If my Ferrari 3200 has an earlier BIOS, would it be wisest not to upgrade. I cannot see the big advantages of upgrading to the newest. Does anyone have another opinion they'd like to share??
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post #987 of 1272
1/7/05 at 10:51pm
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Originally Posted by jimmyT
Hi, been reading this forum for a while after stumbling across it looking for updated firmware for the DVD drive! As it happens snorre, have you found anything yet? Damn region locks eh?
Nope, I'm still looking for it.

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Originally Posted by jimmyT
Was there any reason why Acer shipped the 3200 with xp home in Fat32? (i'm sure this has already been covered but this thread is huge!). Is it possible to install with another copy of xp home(in NTFS) and change the product key (with a key changer) to the one supplied with the notebook? Just seems abit long winded converting from fat32 after installing windows.
I don't know why Acer ships WinXP with FAT32 on their laptops, but it's pretty simple to convert it to NTFS afterwards though just take a look at this:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...onvertfat.mspx
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post #988 of 1272
1/7/05 at 10:57pm
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Originally Posted by MadsD
YES!!! I've bought one now!!!

I've been following this thread since it started, and have saved and saved, and today, now I finally bought it!!! 11.997,93 DKR [1,612.65€] (Hi Snorre, your my country neighbour! Hehe.
Congratulations!

I've made a similar thread over at Hardware.no's forums here that might interest you:
http://forum.hardware.no/index.php?showtopic=242658

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Originally Posted by MadsD
I'm so thrilled However, I read that there's come a heat/fan issue, where it starts at 39 Celcius instead of the old 49 degrees. That's a shame. If my Ferrari 3200 has an earlier BIOS, would it be wisest not to upgrade. I cannot see the big advantages of upgrading to the newest. Does anyone have another opinion they'd like to share??
What BIOS version does yours come with? I haven't upgraded mine yet, and I have still the first version released. I don't see any point upgrading untill Acer has fixed this fan issue though.
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post #989 of 1272
1/8/05 at 4:19am
Hey snorre, I just got my Ferrari 3400 over the christmas. It works great and all, and I've been conditioning the battery like your instructions from the thread. I've also changed the stock hd to the hitachi 7k60. One question though, I was trying to enable the A.B.L.E (or A.B.E.L) for the hd using the feature tool, but it needs a floppy disk. How did you enable your? Did you do it without floppy? or with an external floppy? Also, do you or anyone know any good notebook coolers? I thought the coolermaster coolpad is pretty good, but I'm open to suggestion. The laptop gets pretty hot after a while. I guess the higher speed processor generate more heat, it makes me wonder if the Ferrari 3200 is a better decision. Anyway, no complaint to the laptop overall.
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post #990 of 1272
1/8/05 at 9:30am
If you've upgraded to a Hitachi Travelstar 7K60 hard drive you should enable A.B.L.E. (Advanced Power Options) with the Feature Tool that is included on the Ultimate Boot CD.

See also my post here:
http://notebookforums.com/showthread...650#post458650
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post #991 of 1272
1/8/05 at 11:21am
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Originally Posted by snorre
Congratulations!

I've made a similar thread over at Hardware.no's forums here that might interest you:
http://forum.hardware.no/index.php?showtopic=242658
Yes, I've read some of it now. Not all. GOD there's a lot!

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Originally Posted by snorre
What BIOS version does yours come with? I haven't upgraded mine yet, and I have still the first version released. I don't see any point upgrading untill Acer has fixed this fan issue though.
The machine arrives on thursday, if I'm lucky. :-)
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post #992 of 1272
1/9/05 at 4:50pm

Formatting drives

Hi there.

A simple (stupid? ) question: How do I format a partition on my Ferrari 3200 manually, i.e. without using the recovery and system CDs provided? As all of you know, the Ferrari does not have a Floppy disk drive, so startup floppies do not help...

Thanks.
Best regards,
Algirdas

P.S. Happy New Year everyone!
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post #993 of 1272
1/9/05 at 11:06pm
So far, I only have one BSOD since I reinstalled everything. And the error involved win32K.sys which I attribute (I'm not sure though) to the Digital Fusion compositing software which I tried using. It happened just once. I tried to replicate what I did but the error didn't happen again.

So now, I'm not eager to do windows update just yet :-) keeping my fingers crossed. Next step, install PC games :-)

Although I have one observation, I was looking for the ACER SERVICE partition that the restore CD usually creates, but it's not there. I know it can be deleted after recovery but why is it not there now?? hmmm.

fskidd, it's nice to hear you got them working well. unfortunately I already ordered the 2X512MB DDR 333 but it's ok, I will still be happy :-) since I got a good deal :-)
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post #994 of 1272
1/9/05 at 11:16pm
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Originally Posted by algirdas2004
Hi there.

A simple (stupid? ) question: How do I format a partition on my Ferrari 3200 manually, i.e. without using the recovery and system CDs provided? As all of you know, the Ferrari does not have a Floppy disk drive, so startup floppies do not help...

Thanks.
Best regards,
Algirdas

P.S. Happy New Year everyone!
If you have a separate WinXP CD, you can boot with the CD and do the partition there. If you don't, I tried this option once for booting to Drive C, use the system CD but not continuing the recovery step. I forgot exactly how I went thru it but I was able to access Drive C in DOS mode. I hope this made sense
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post #995 of 1272
1/9/05 at 11:53pm
My Ferrari just crashed few minutes ago while surfing the web on wifi. the BSOD tells about IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. what does that mean???
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post #996 of 1272
1/10/05 at 12:33am
snorre, thanks for all your posts here!

I stuck in two of the Corsair 512MB memory sticks you recommended over the weekend.

$96 each from newegg.com.

Went like a breeze!

bootz
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post #997 of 1272
1/10/05 at 1:04pm
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Originally Posted by rain_director
My Ferrari just crashed few minutes ago while surfing the web on wifi. the BSOD tells about IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. what does that mean???
http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.php#0x0a
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...d_stp_hwpg.asp
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post #998 of 1272
1/10/05 at 9:50pm
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Originally Posted by Bootz
snorre, thanks for all your posts here!

I stuck in two of the Corsair 512MB memory sticks you recommended over the weekend.

$96 each from newegg.com.

Went like a breeze!
Great to hear it

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post #999 of 1272
1/10/05 at 10:26pm
Done, dude!

Bootz
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post #1000 of 1272
1/10/05 at 11:10pm
hey guys
i was just wondering if any of u ferrari owners would either upload or send me the ferrari.wav (startup sound file). am using a differen windows than the one supplied and it just doesn't feel home wen i dont hear the engine sound!

shadinio@gmail.com
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