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    NBR Acer forum - technical help success stories

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by TeeJay 44, Mar 4, 2008.

  1. TeeJay 44

    TeeJay 44 Notebook Deity

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    First of all, a huge round of thanks to all the people that have contributed positively to the Acer forum. We wan't this spot to offer the soundest, best advise out on the WWW for Acer. Bar none. Special thanks to Hoggie for the motivation for me to actually start this thread (I beat you to it mate :p ).

    This thread is under construction but it's aim is to show the world and give special recognition to:

    1. Good Acer folks that are always there to help. The plan is to give you guys the respect you deserve. I have noticed that rep points are few for some of the members that give the best advice and in turn get no or little thanks.

    2. People that request help from the Acer forum and then have the decency to thank the member(s) for their efforts when their problems are resolved.

    Plenty of the forum members go out of their way to truly help resolve a problem with sensible and wise advise.

    I am truly honoured to be a member of this forum. Lets see it grow from strength to strength.

    Cheers,
    Theo


    To start the ball rolling, here we go:

    "Well Congrats to all.....Another successful upgrade to a T5300. Everything works perfectly, performance is spectacular compared to that celeron. Thanks to everyone for help. YOU ALL ROCK. I am now proud to have a 3680!!!!!!

    I wonder if you could upgrade the wireless card to a wireless N...just an after thought.

    I LOVE MY NEW LAPTOP......."

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=206137&page=10

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    Hey Krazy, congrats on the sticky!

    Excellent job, I'll be following you advice and will be upgrading the wifey's 3680 in the near furture!

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=206137&page=6

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    I would like to report another successful upgrade of an acer aspire 3680-2682to a Core 2 Duo [email protected]. My computer now has a longer battery life and also is better overall in performance. Anyone want to buy a Celeron M [email protected]?

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=206137&page=5


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    Thanks Evolution! I opened the bottom of my laptop, removed a chunk of dust that was blocking the air vent with my fingers, and now my CPU speed is pretty stable! I just played 20 minutes of CS without getting any lag!

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=2962010#post2962010

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    Re: Latest Synaptics driver modded for Acer MediaTouch

    thanks man, ur a really big help

    for a while there i was pissed cuz synaptics wasnt compatible with winamp (i hate wmp) and i found the acer arcade button useless. now thanks to u, i can really use these buttons. lets give a big :) to this guy folks

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=218872

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    TeeJay 44, Mar 4, 2008
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  2. hoggie

    hoggie old boy

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    nice one mate :)
     
    hoggie, Mar 5, 2008
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    TeeJay 44 Notebook Deity

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    More to follow. I just have to find the posts where problems were solved and the original poster appreciated and acknowleged the advise given.

    Thanks for the correct help given and problem(s) solved seems very rare.

    People mainly use and rarely give something back or appreciate help given. That's the WWW.

    Will keep looking for decency out there :)

    Cheers,
    Theo
     
    TeeJay 44, Mar 6, 2008
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  4. hoggie

    hoggie old boy

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    with thanks to Krazy my wife now has a laptop which is faster,cooler and has longer battery life.
    she had a celeron m530 she now has a c2d T7300. :D

    thanks goes to Krazy for starting the upgrade thread and giving me some thing to do on these cold winter nights(researching cpu's).

    Cheers Krazy your a diamond :notworthy:

    Thanks
    Phil.
     
    hoggie, Mar 8, 2008
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  5. TeeJay 44

    TeeJay 44 Notebook Deity

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    Good one Phil. That's life. All it takes is someone to stick their neck out and post positive stuff to help instead of moaning.

    @ krazy: Yet another success story. Good one mate. You started the ball rolling and we will back up to the hilt. Best Acer upgrade thread on the web bar none.

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=206137

    Cheers,
    Theo
     
    TeeJay 44, Mar 8, 2008
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  6. Evolution

    Evolution Vox Sola

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    Two days ago I provided my own technical help in the form of replacing my now dead optical drive (DVD-rw\DL). The original optical drive that came with my notebook was a Panasonic OEM drive (Matsh!ta) these drives are rubbish (google them if you don't believe me) and usually only last a few months to 1 year at the most, I was lucky in that mine lasted ~14months. The drive failure I don't really blame on acer because HP, Toshiba, Sony and other manufacturers use these drives and users are getting the same problem of the drive laser failing after a few months. These drives should be avoided at all cost!

    Anyway I replaced the original optical drive with a new Samsung(SN-S082H) DVD drive and it works beautifully. Upgrading was easy with my specific series in that I only had to remove 1 screw to actually get the optical drive out of it's bay. Then all I had to do from there was remove the drive caddy from the old drive and put it on the new drive and slot it back into the drive bay. Turned on the notebook and it was immediately detected in the BIOS as well as windows.
    All of this was made easy because I have the service manual for the 5100 series. I cannot stress how important having the service manual is as it takes alot of the "guess work" out of the equation.

    The next upgrade I want to do is hard drive but I am waiting to see what SSD prices look like when crucial.com releases them.
     
    Evolution, Mar 8, 2008
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    Van Capri Notebook Consultant

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    It realy is a nice idea to start a thread such as this, it motivates the people to be thankfull in the future...

    btw. i am still willing to thank the person who is eventualy in the future be able to solve the realy bad sound distortion issue ;)
     
    Van Capri, Mar 8, 2008
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  8. TeeJay 44

    TeeJay 44 Notebook Deity

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    THREAD : Latest Synaptics driver modded for Acer MediaTouch

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=218872

    THREAD STARTER : Discrucio Anima

    CREDIT AND THANKS DUE TO: Discrucio Anima

    THANKS FROM: CMWelsh

    "thanks man, ur a really big help

    for a while there i was pissed cuz synaptics wasnt compatible with winamp (i hate wmp) and i found the acer arcade button useless. now thanks to u, i can really use these buttons. lets give a big :) to this guy folks"
     
    TeeJay 44, Mar 10, 2008
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    To get this thread rolling I need your guys help. If you know of a posters problem that you have successfully solved then please PM me.

    Cheers,
    Theo
     
    TeeJay 44, Mar 10, 2008
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    End of my posts. Basically, most newbies take and give nothing back.

    Will see in a month's time.

    Cheers,
    Theo
     
    TeeJay 44, Mar 13, 2008
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    hoggie old boy

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    hoggie, Mar 13, 2008
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    hoggie old boy

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    hoggie, Mar 14, 2008
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    krazyphire Notebook Consultant

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    Wow I've never seen this thread until today. :). Thank You all very much for your gratitude, and I hope we can all continue to be a help to the acer community. :D
     
    krazyphire, Mar 21, 2008
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    TeeJay 44 Notebook Deity

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    Resurrected.... Go guys, you are offering the best advise on the planet. Bar none. :D :D

    Dont be shy to keep this thread going. Post your links and sucess stories. You deserve it. :cool: :cool: :cool:

    Cheers,
    Theo
     
    TeeJay 44, Apr 7, 2008
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