No AcerGuy till Friday
Posted by 
Michael Walsh) on Jan 22 2007 | Tagged as: WordPress
Tomorrow morning (today at this point in time) I’ll be getting on a plane to spend three days in storm-battered UK.
I’m going to do what everyone connected 24/7 should every once and a while. Switch off.
That’s right, no PC for three days. It’s like going without cigarettes when you’re on 2 packs a day, or without seeing your children… the withdrawal symptoms are already showing as I’m actually writing about it.
Still, it’ll give me time to think about the future of TheAcerGuy, the site and, more urgently, the blogging platform (I want to change over to WordPress and give it a real domain).
I like WordPress as it’ll also give me the chance to add categories as there is as much theory (PR involvement in corporate blogging) as there is business practice (4Q results show Acer catching up on Lenovo). And I thought it was just going to be about notebooks…
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on 22 Jun 2007 at 10:15 pm 1
J. Rico (Check me out!) said …
I have an aspire 5610-4648 (what mean 4648?) doesn’t mater the problem is, this notebook comes with Vista, I don’t like Vista, and I install XP, but the camera doesn’t work.
All the devices work fine, I have all drivers from Acer, but I don’t know what happen.
Thanks for your time and patience.
on 23 Jun 2007 at 5:50 am 2
Michael Walsh (Check me out!) said …
Hey J.R.
Thanks for writing in. I’m sorry you don’t like Vista. I myself haven’t changed over yet (time? patience? fear??) but will eventually have to.
I think the problem is that you have the Vista drivers and applications pre-installed and now you need to re-install the “old” XP ones.
You can get these for your 5610 from the Acer support site but NOT BEFORE YOU FIND OUT WHICH ORBICAM YOU HAVE. You can do that by following the instructions here
You’ve also posted this in an unrelated post. It’s great that I can talk with Acer users but we do need to keep the conversations in one place otherwise people might not hear what’s being said.
As far as the model numbering is concerned, that’s a $64,000 question! I’m afraid I am not responsible for this side of the naming business and therefore cannot help you. It would be interesting to know though
on 26 May 2008 at 10:40 am 3
Jhonson (Check me out!) said …
I’ve an aspire 4920 this notebook comes with Vista, I don’t like Vista, and I install dual boot Vista & XP, after that the Alt-F10 and Arcade button won’t work.
Arcade by default would start when it is press even notebook is off.
The 9GB EISA partition is intact but the 3GB EISA partition become Drive F:
Drive C: Vista default D: Win XP E: DVD-Drive F: the missing 3GB EISA with files in it.
All the devices work fine, I have all drivers from Acer, but I don’t know what happen.
Thanks for your time and patience.
on 26 May 2008 at 8:58 pm 4
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
Acer arcade runs off from another windows in the 3GB partition, the arcade button launches the certain MBR from a certain partition, installing XP replaces the MBR again, I believe you had to fix your vista boot after you have installed XP correct? you have to fix the MBR using the eRecovery files, those include the information on booting the arcade partition.
on 26 Jun 2008 at 9:32 pm 5
jeff (Check me out!) said …
hi i bought a acer 8920 gemstone blue laptop the problem is that when i play blu ray films it shows big black bars on the screen.how do i get the full 16.9 ratio and watch them full screen.
on 26 Jun 2008 at 9:35 pm 6
jeff (Check me out!) said …
on the 8920 laptop how do i get to remove the black bars when i watch a blu ray film,i checked the settings but no 16.9 option.
on 26 Jun 2008 at 11:08 pm 7
Michael Walsh (Check me out!) said …
Hi Jeff,
It’s because the Blu ray films you have are filmed in something called “cinemascope” which is basically even wider than widescreen as it has an aspect ratio of 2.35:1 rather than 16:9.
You can read up on it here.
Not all films are in cinemascope, but those that are, will always have those horrible black bars.
on 27 Jun 2008 at 1:18 am 8
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
there is a solution, manually stretch the video vertically to fill the screen(might look bad if the aspect ratio are too far apart) , to do this, change your desktop resolution to the corresponding aspect ratio to the video itself, then disable the nVIDIA flat panel scaling.
on 03 Jul 2008 at 3:00 pm 9
Stan Johnson (Check me out!) said …
I have a acer 6920 and it has vista, can you put a dual boot on it, xp and vista. We have software for our tv channel that is not vista compatible. And what will I need to get it to work properly.??
on 03 Jul 2008 at 5:44 pm 10
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
did you try run it as windows xp sp2 (right click - > properties - > Compatibility tab) if that does not work, you can find lots of dual boot instructions online
on 29 Aug 2008 at 5:18 pm 11
Jhonson (Check me out!) said …
I have an Aspire 4920 dual boot Xp & Vista. I would keen to know did anyone know where to get Empowering utility for Win XP?
Please.
Thanks.
on 05 Oct 2008 at 1:28 am 12
lee jones (Check me out!) said …
hi there please help i have a 6920 and for life of me cannot get a blue ray disc to play in it. Is this a problem with laptop or vista. Please help
on 05 Oct 2008 at 3:54 am 13
J C Ouellet (Check me out!) said …
Hi I need help I have an Acer Aspire 8920.
I have problems with the CD, player, my player works wel on all of my CD’s except one which ia a DVD of
body worlds Exhibition of Human Bodies.
I get an error of DVD region It reads as follows
unable to play this DVD because it does not match the region code of your disc player.
Please insert a disc created for your region or change the region code of your disc player.
This DVD works on all other players that I have.
on 05 Oct 2008 at 7:47 am 14
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
lee jones, can you be a little more specific?
J C Ouellet, I am not sure if it is legal to remove the region code, but I do know a way(at least I think it works)
download a trial version of “DVD Fab” and do a “Main Movie” copy, there you will need a additional blank DVD disk 4.7GB to burn. this burns a copy of your DVD just the Main movie, no main menus, region problems etc.
hope that works for ya
on 06 Oct 2008 at 8:44 pm 15
J C Ouellet (Check me out!) said …
Thanks a lot will try this.
Regards…JC.