http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ The Acer Guy Forum » Recent Topics en-US Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:17:14 +0000 bbpress 1.0.2 q http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/search.php http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/acer-bios-descriptions#post-10709 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:46:25 +0000 puck 10709@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>On other websites for motherboards and laptops I've owned, the vendor has described what the updates in the BIOS did on a functional level. For instance, an HP bios update on my wife's older laptop enabled use of 4 GB sticks of ram. Does anyone know of a place for pure BIOS discussions? The acer website is generally lacking in any detail. I'm specifically looking for 7736z info. </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/battery-for-aspire-1-d275#post-10703 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:36:14 +0000 Coastie3202 10703@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>This past weekend I bought my wife an Aspire 1 D257. After charging the battery, I turned it on, noted that the battery was 100%, unplugged it, and gave it to the wife to use. In less than 2 hrs the battery was dead. What? No way I say. But true.</p> <p>The reviews I read on the D257 indicated up to 8 hours of battery life. I would have been happy with 4 hrs, but can't handle less than 2 hours.</p> <p>Solution? I would like to find an extended life battery (i.e. 6 cell) for the D257, but so far I am unable to find a source.</p> <p>HELP ME PLEASE! Cry for assistance before I have to take it back to Walmart for my money back. </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/acer-t671-cpu-support#post-10552 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:49:42 +0000 brianthesnail 10552@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>Hi guys<br /> i have a acer aspire T671 which is a spare pc. and it currently uses a pentium D 915.... however i have a spare celeron E3300 dual core cpu which is significantly more powerful than the pentium D 915.. however when i tried to use the E3300 on the acer T671 motherboard it wouldnt boot and the screen stayed black !<br /> the motherboard in question is a acer "MRS600M" model... however my question is " would updating the bios allow me to run the celeron E3300 on this board "<br /> as we know updating/flashing the bios updates the motherboard so it can support newer processors and hardware.. so do you think the bios update would work ?<br /> note : the motherboard in question has NOT been flashed previously and it supports ddr2 ram and has a pci-express x16 bus(slot)<br /> any help will be much appreciated<br /> cheers guys </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/acer-going-into-attack-mode-in-2012-says-chairman#post-10647 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:37:37 +0000 brinkley1988 10647@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>On Tuesday, Acer chairman JT Wang warned the opposition that his company has moved away from purely defending its position in the market as seen in 2011. Instead, Acer is now in full attack position and poised to deal a vicious blow from four specific angles: ultrabooks, netbooks, tablets and smartphones. The chairman made his virtual war cry during Acer's ceremony for the Lunar New Year.</p> <p>Acer's strongest blow, according to JT Wang, will be on the ultrabook front. The company will reportedly launch four new models in 2Q12 alone, and then an additional, unspecified number of ultrabooks sporting a tasty pricetag of $699 to $799 USD the following quarter. Acer president Jim Wong added that the company will adopt a passive strategy over pricing, that going forward, user experience and demand will become the major selling points rather than a competitive price tag.</p> <p>In the tablet sector, Acer plans to steer clear of the high-end and low-end markets ruled by Apple's iPad and Amazon's Kindle Fire respectively. Instead, Acer will attack via the mid-range avenue priced between $299 and $499 USD. Currently this specific market has an estimated shipment scale of around 10 to 20 million units, but that may change once Apple reportedly introduces the iPad 3 which addresses both the mid-range and high-end markets.</p> <p>As for Acer's netbook assault, the company assumes that developed countries will sway towards the ultrabook form factor. However the shipment volume of netbooks in emerging countries is still growing, allowing Acer to maintain its 45-percent worldwide market share. But eventually that will come to an end, as the netbook and ultrabook sectors are expected to merge into one happy segment within the next 18 to 24 months.</p> <p>Tuesday’s report did not offer details surrounding Acer's smartphone assault, so stay tuned. </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/travelmate-7530g-turning-off-sleep-mode-randomly#post-10632 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:36:56 +0000 Twaggy 10632@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>my partner's laptop randomly turns itself to sleep mode or on occasion actually turns off. She uses it for playing games at times but it also turns off/sleep mode while just looking at the internet or playing music. It is always connected to a power supply as the battery died sometime ago. I thought it might be over heating but it also turns off shortly after starting up, and the vents are dust free. Ive also tried to turn off sleep mode/hibernate and it still continues. </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/aspire-6930g-111v-or-148v-battery#post-10616 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:38:32 +0000 batfink 10616@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>Hopefully someone here will set me straight, but before someone says replace the battery with the same voltage as the old one, I'll explain why I'm cautious...<br /> I bought this Aspire 6930G (model 583G25Bn) a while back, as a refurbished unit. Therefore it didn't come in the original packaging and it's possible that the battery was pulled from another unit. Back then the battery would only last around 30 minutes then the laptop would switch off without battery warnings. I only had a 30 day warranty so got a replacement battery from the supplier, which lasted about an hour initially but fairly quickly went the same way as the first battery. Now the battery will last around 5 minutes before the laptop just dies, so it's a case of keeping it plugged in all the time. Otherwise this has been a good machine.<br /> So I was looking at buying a replacement battery and noticed that both 11.1V and 14.8V types are listed for this model. So, can anyone clarify which is the correct type? I'm unsure whether the 11.1V that I already have is correct and I doubt the supplier would have even bothered to check if the right battery was supplied. The DC rating on the laptop is 19V, 4.74A, if this helps at all. I checked on the Acer online store and they don't list the 6930G, but the 6920G, which I assume is the same, but they don't state the battery voltage, only that it's 8 cells and 4800mAh, which I think may be the 14.8V type </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/aspire-8920-blu-ray-player#post-10601 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:24:49 +0000 ziik 10601@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>i Have a Aspire 8920 that original came with Vista. Lately I have upgraded to Win7 Ultimate. Now, when I try to play a blu ray movie, the windows media senter opens but I get this message telling me to install a playback application that supports blu-ray disc.<br /> I have been searching at Acers home page for some answers but I cant fint it.<br /> Personaly I though that I would need to upgrade my windows media senter some how?<br /> Any one have any ide what the problem might be?</p> <p>By the way, I am also trying to open blue ray in the VLC media player. Last version. But no luck. It whant work either.</p> <p>Regards form norway:)</p> <p>By the way, sorry if my english is a bit rusty :) </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/wireless-network-issue#post-10600 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:37:06 +0000 zlick 10600@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>Recently, when I turn on my Aspire 5820tg, no networks are found and a red X is over my signal bar. I check to see if wireless is turned on. It is. Device manager says the all drivers are up to date and my adapter is working. Then it starts working after a day, and stops again after being turned on. Any ideas what is wrong? </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/bios-problem-on-acer-8920g#post-4786 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:55:03 +0000 jimcoun 4786@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>Hello all,</p> <p>I tried to upgrade my Bios but it failed and my laptop doesn't boot. The screen is black, LEDs are on and screen is black.</p> <p>Can you help me fix the BIOS and make my laptop work?<br /> I'm really sad and confused.</p> <p>Thank you and I think you will help me find a solution to my problem. </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/bios-update-failure-1#post-10410 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:47:26 +0000 Gibber 10410@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>When I try to update my new M3970 to the current BIOS from the Acer site the flash update process fails with a response:</p> <p>ROM file ROMID is not compatible with existing BIOS ROMID</p> <p>I have successfully installed previous BIOS updates to the same computer, and I downloaded this three times to ensure it was not corrupted in transmission.</p> <p>Any suggestions? </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/acer-aspire-8930-fan-problems#post-10595 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:47:56 +0000 Larsonator 10595@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>ok, so i got home from work today, eager to play one of my favorite games.<br /> I started and my laptop just turned itself off. So i investigated. i got a hardware monitoring program, and i noticed that my GPU temperature was slowing increasing.</p> <p>upon further investigation i noticed that the cooling fan wasn't spinning either.</p> <p>This is where it get weird how ever..</p> <p>The cooling fan will run and work perfectly, keeping my GPU cool while i am in start up or the bios. But as soon as the laptop loads windows, it just stops running, and doesn't start again allowing the GPU to heat up (surprisingly the CPU temperature remains rather normal considering the GPU and CPU share the same cooling fan).</p> <p>The fan settings in windows are set to active, and i am running windows 7. This problem has only just started to occur.</p> <p>Does anybody have any idea's as to what is happening and how i might fix this?</p> <p>Lars. </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/acer-aspire-one-no-power-after-bios-upgrade#post-10565 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:16:27 +0000 MYACER2012 10565@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>maybe you can help me<br /> i traied to upgrade my bios ( maybe it was worng bios ) the computer stack and it will not go off<br /> i take out the bat and ac but after i put them back it didnt turn on<br /> i try to put usb with zg5ia32.fd + flashit.exe<br /> press esc+fn + power but it didnt start<br /> it didnt go on<br /> the usb didnt start<br /> the ac is ok it charge mobile phone from usb of the aa1<br /> so charger is ok<br /> can i fix my aa1<br /> is ther is any thing i can do? </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/swap-dvd-rw-drive-on-a-6920g#post-10573 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:45:16 +0000 dlaslett 10573@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>Hi folks,</p> <p>My wife dropped my Aspire 6920g, damaging the DVD RW drive in the process.</p> <p>I have bought a replacement drive quite cheaply from ebay, but am now struggling to find out how to remove the old one. I've googled and youtubed to no avail.</p> <p>Has anyone done this before, or can opint me int he right direction?</p> <p>Thanks All!</p> <p>Dave </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/aspire-t135-onboard-graphics-driver#post-10572 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:27:44 +0000 ManxDave 10572@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>I have an old T135 desktop with onboard graphics only. The HD failed and I have rebuilt from scratch except I cannot get the graphics drivers to install.</p> <p>On the official site there appear to be 2 versions for my model the NVIDIA and the ATI. I have tried both and the installer fails with a message stating something like - no comaptible hardware or software is detected.</p> <p>Any help would be appreciated. </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/finding-a-new-battery-for-my-computer#post-7483 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:15:21 +0000 dvruger 7483@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>OK Acer, you really dropped the ball on this one. DO you really truely even read the emails sent in?<br /> Here is what I sent to you:</p> <p>I've called several times now about a replacement battery that will not charge at my computer. At your suggestion I've:<br /> Updated the BIOS<br /> Re-calibrated the battery (or tried to)<br /> Un-installed the battery in the device manager and let it reinstall.</p> <p>All of the above have failed.<br /> Of three different batteries, two simply won't show as even being attached to the computer, the other showed it present and charging, but failed to actually charge. None of them once drained, have had a bit of power put back into them.</p> <p>My original battery though wore out, will still show as attached, and charges, just won't hold more than 5-10 minutes worth of charge any more.</p> <p>I need a battery for this computer, or it's worthless. Why won't the replacement batteries charge but my original battery will?</p> <p>And here is your response:</p> <p>Thank you for contacting Acer America. I’ll be happy to assist you with this issue.</p> <p>As per the serial number (removed) your system is out of warranty.</p> <p>Daniel, after reviewing your email, I understand that you require a new battery for your computer. </p> <p>Daniel, you can purchase a new battery from the following link. || <a href="http://us-store.acer.com/category.aspx?modelID=131&amp;ModelName=Aspire%25208930G" rel="nofollow">http://us-store.acer.com/category.aspx?modelID=131&amp;ModelName=Aspire%25208930G</a> ||</p> <p>For further clarifications please feel free to visit our website: <a href="http://support.acer.com/" rel="nofollow">http://support.acer.com/</a></p> <p>Thank you for contacting Acer.<br /> Have a great day!</p> <p>Respectfully,<br /> Acer America<br /> Online Technical Support</p> <p>Did I not already tell you I needed a battery? Yet I also need one that WORKS!</p> <p>Anybody else had issues like this that can lend me any advice? </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/how-good-is-iconia-6120#post-10570 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:26:17 +0000 nullsilazone 10570@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>Hi to everyone.</p> <p>I have been reading reviews over months to choose the best laptop. nothing strike me on the CES2012 but I have already kind of leaned to the ICONIA-6120.</p> <p>in most amazon reviews they issue about how to lower touchscreen stop functioning relative fast.</p> <p>can anyone share it's experience with this model.</p> <p>thanks! </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/upgrading-a-processor-on-5335#post-5198 Sun, 16 May 2010 12:02:45 +0000 whoppery5k 5198@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>can the processor on a 5335 be upgraded too a dual core??</p> <p>i have a celron and would like to get it replaced. also what processor if any will fit?? </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/4gb-in-to-aspire-one-happy2-n57ch2b-n570#post-10568 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:49:35 +0000 TomYam 10568@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>According to Intels website the Atom N570 is supporting 4GB ram.<br /> I have a - Aspire One Happy2 - N57Ch2b Atom N570 1.66Ghz</p> <p>According to this youtube video, one viewer claims he has done a 4gb upgrade.<br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqQ3kdtUNFc" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqQ3kdtUNFc</a></p> <p>What memory should I use for upgrading to 4gb? </p> <p>Following are suggestions from forums that I found around the net:<br /> Corsair CMSO4GX3M1A1333C9 4GB 1X4GB DDR3-1333 CL9-9-9-24 204PIN SODIMM Memory?<br /> Kingston 4 GB SODIMM (Kingston KVR1066D3S7/4G)?</p> <p>But no secondary confirmation that it works.<br /> Or if there is a BIOS limitation to it.</p> <p>//Tom </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/acer-5738z-switch-power-supply#post-10567 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:03:02 +0000 zohaib82 10567@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>I am using Acer 5738Z laptop.</p> <p>I use my laptop 10 hours with continuous power supply and remove battery each time.</p> <p>I want to know do we have any software which helps me to switch on battery power / direct power supply without removing battery from my laptop.</p> <p>- Thanks. </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/how-to-get-tv-picture-on-z5700#post-10566 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:02:53 +0000 winphil 10566@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>I have no User Manual (Where can I get one???) and so don't know how to get a TV picture. I thought this had a built in tuner. I have connected an external aerial as recommended.<br /> Can anyone help please? I'm not very technical<br /> Thanks </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/chirping-noise-when-in-standby-aspire-5551#post-7098 Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:52:52 +0000 justsomeguy 7098@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>I have a new aspire 5551 notebook and I am perplexed by this strange chirping noise coming from the unit when it is in sleep mode. The noise happens at a regular interval. At the same time, the activity led on the optical drive blinks at the same interval. There is no disc in the drive.</p> <p>Thoughts? </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/chromiumos-on-acer-revo-3610#post-10563 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:41:44 +0000 gneville 10563@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>Has anyone done this?</p> <p>I'm trying to find a platform from which to run Netlflix without it becoming a slideshow when the videos turn into HD (as it does in Win7).</p> <p>Many thanks! </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/7736z-cpu-upgrade-possiblities#post-10562 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:08:37 +0000 puck 10562@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>I see the 7736z has a socket P setup with a T4200 inside. What is the possiblity of upgrading this to a t4500 or maybe a t9900? </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/acer-8930-9700m-gt-lags-in-games#post-811 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:34:44 +0000 hyperx159 811@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>Who ever have a 8930, does it lag in games ? </p> <p>It lags in every game when I spend some time after a 30 minutes playing. </p> <p>And it's not the software, cause I formatted it to a vista 64bit and no acer's software installed.</p> <p>I am thinking about heating problems. </p> <p>Is there any help about this problem please ?</p> <p>Thank you </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/a-puzzling-memory-difference#post-4930 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:13:30 +0000 Starnamer 4930@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>OK, before anyone says, I know all about 32-bit OS's only being only able to access a 4Gb address space, but I also know about Physical Address Extension (PAE) which allows a 32-bit OS to access the space above 4Gb. I also know that some memory is reseved for buffers, registers etc so all memory may not be available.</p> <p>Having said all that, I have 2 laptops on my desk at present, an Acer 8920G and a Dell E6400. Both have 4Gb physical memory. The Dell, running XP, reports about 3.5Gb of ram (3620866K) while the Acer, running Windows 7, only report 3Gb (3070M).</p> <p>So the question is why the Acer doesn't appear to be using any of the 'top' 1Gb while the Dell manages to make half of it available?</p> <p>Is there some setting to change somewhere? I can't see anything in the BIOS and have tried enabling PAE (although I didn't really expect that to work as it's meant for memory above the 4Gb limit).</p> <p>Or is the system actually already using the extra and just not reporting it to Windows 7?</p> <p>As the title says, this is more of a puzzle than a problem, since the real answer (if I actually had applications that needed all that memory) is to switch to 64-bit. </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/acer-aspire-8920g-and-51-speakers#post-6842 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:03:31 +0000 brath23 6842@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>Hi everybody, i'm new here and i hope you can help with my problem.<br /> I have a Acer Aspire 8920G with Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit installed. I just bought a new 5.1 Trust speaker system but i only can get sound from front speakers. I installed the last drivers available for Windows 7 from Realtek. I configured the mic and Line-in as audio output in the HD Audio Manager, but still only front play sound in the test. The 6 speakers work perfect under Linux. I googled my problem, but i didn't find any solution for me. I hope someone can help me!!!<br /> Thank u!!<br /> PD: sorry for my bad english </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/aspire-one-d260-black-screen-of-death#post-7464 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:51:00 +0000 lowai 7464@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>I just bought a new D260-2dkk Aspire one. I powered it on and started configuring it to my liking and then shut it down. (Note: I had plugged in an SD card that I was using for Readyboost in Windows 7) . Later when I went to restart the computer the power light came on and the fan comes on for a second or so, but the computer does not boot up and the LCD screen stays black--nothing at all on the screen and it seems to be powered off. I do not see any other signs of life besides the power light, no sign of HDD activity or response to keys, the computer just seems dead. </p> <p>I can power it off by holding the power button down for about 5 seconds. I tried all the usual things for this description from the web/Acer site and nothing has helped. I made sure the system had fully discharged its power (disconnecting all power/battery and holding down the power button for many minutes (I was desperate)) it sat overnight after doing that and still no change when trying it again.</p> <p>I've found articles about doing a "blind flash" or crisis disk recovery of the bios, but they seem to be for other models of Aspire One netbooks as the procedure won't work (I tested the key combinations of holding fn + Esc then turning on the power). Can anyone help with a solution for this model of netbook? Is there another similar method (DYI) to fix this computer short of taking it in for return/repair? </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/acer-aspire-5520-power-problems#post-10556 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:19:29 +0000 teppes99 10556@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>I'm working on an Acer Aspire 5520 laptop that is out of warranty for a non-profit organization. It has a strange power on problem that I have no idea where to start working on. I'm at a complete loss and need some help. Here's the problem...</p> <p>If the laptop is powered off for more than 6 hours it will not power on with the AC adapter plugged in. If I unplug the AC adapter from the laptop, it will power up on battery power. When it is turned on it will run fine on either battery or AC adapter. When it's powered off the battery light is lit, but when I press the power button, the battery light goes out. I unplug the AC adapter and the laptop will power on from the battery and the battery light will come back on. But this will only happen if the laptop is powered off for more than 6 hours, less than that it will power on fine.</p> <p>I've tried removing the battery and powering on with just the AC adapter and it will not power on. I've tried removing the AC adapter and battery and holding the power button for 1 minute, did not solve the problem. I was having this problem before I did a full factory restore of the laptop and am still having after doing a factory restore. I sent an e-mail to Acer's technical support looking for suggestions and all they told me was to reset the BIOS to the default settings. I tried that and am now waiting for 6 hours to see if that solves it. I'm thinking it won't make a difference. I ran virus scans and Malware Bytes, both came up clean. </p> <p>I'm at a loss of what to try next. Any suggestions would be very helpful. </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/no-device-wireless-internet-does-not-work#post-10555 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:21:12 +0000 sunkool 10555@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>I have Acer Aspire 6930g. I had screen problems and sent it for repair but due to cost issues, brought it back without repair. But to my surprise the screen works perfectly well (apparently Inverter and LCD cable were required to be replaced). As soon as I started the laptop, I found that there is no internet connectivity via the wireless, though the Ethernet cable connects me to Internet. When I press the wireless connection key the display reads "NO DEVICE". However the Network card in the hardware reads "device is working" no conflicts. I re-configured the router, turned off and on both the laptop and router, disconnected the device and reinstalled it, updated the drivers, but still it is not working. Please help. </p> http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/topic/windows-7-freezes-on-aspire-6920#post-1875 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:51:52 +0000 blimkie 1875@http://www.theacerguy.com/forum/ <p>Ive been using windows 7 beta since its relase with my aspire 6920 and I found it better then Vista. I only had one issue which wasnt a big deal. When the laptop was running only on battery windows media player sound would cut out temporarily however the song would continue to play. That didnt bother me that much. </p> <p>Now im using Windows 7 RC and I am having a freezing issue. The computer boots up runs fine for about 15 minutes or so then freezes up. When these freeze ups occur I am running the bare minimum of programs. Sometimes it is only windows explorer. At max I may be running Windows Messenger, A Web browser and windows explorer.</p> <p>It doesnt matter whether I use firefox or IE still freezes. Sometimes when these freezes occur I am able to bring up the task manager most of the time I am forced to restart via power button.</p> <p>I installed clean versions of it several times to try to fix the problem. I do a clean install everytime I do not upgrade. I have even downloaded the latest N vidia drivers for my Geforce 9500 M.</p> <p>Other observations; doenst seem to matter what program causes the freezing ill click something on either MSN, Web broser, or windows explorer and it happens. When i check performance on the task manager the RAM is usually fine maybe 20-30% The CPU usage tends to spile during this perios around 80-90% Im thinking this is the problem. AS far as i know drivers for cpus are built in. Correct me if im wrong.</p> <p>I also switched back to XP and It ran alot better however It was taking forever to get all my drivers working. I was unable to install realtek and i cannot live without sound.</p> <p>Wondering if anyone else is having these problems so we can work together on resloving it. I doubt its a hardware issue the laptop is a beast love the design but sometimes I just wanna smash it. I was having the odd problem with freezing when i was running Vista as well.</p> <p>Sorry for the length of this post. Thanks,</p> <p>-Blimkie</p> <p>Acer Aspire 6920<br /> Intel Celeron Duo Core 1.8ghz<br /> 4.00 gb of ram<br /> 320 gb hard drive<br /> nvidia geforce 9500m<br /> Windows 7 RC </p>