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Geek Culture / My laptop, Acer Aspire 5520g, broken again..

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GamerDude
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2008 10:16 Edited at: 2nd Oct 2008 10:17
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K, here is list of problems:

-taking hours to load
-userint and dll errors


small list but serious problems!

tried acer, but they gave me crap support
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GamerDude
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2008 11:58
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fixed: dvd drive was loose and it had cd in, xp reinstalled and wks great!
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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2008 12:04
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The only advice I can give is to be a touch more careful as to what you download and/or click on. Consider who made this "freeware" and why. I have downloaded a "video editing suite" before, only to find it runs the splash screen then tries to download all sorts of nasties.

Should I continue coding or focus on my art? Vote here:
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NeX, the creator of a billion failed projects.
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Veron
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2008 12:36 Edited at: 2nd Oct 2008 12:37
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They all sound like user-created problems to me.

Give it a defrag, clean out the registry, all that sorta stuff and you should be fine when it comes to speed.
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GamerDude
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2008 12:59 Edited at: 2nd Oct 2008 13:13
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im on crysis multiplayer now! wanna verse?

i cannot join, i have v1.2 oh well

I created one called: GamerDudeDM v1.2. dont wk, cuz of auth
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GamerDude
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2008 13:41
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Great, speedfan saved my laptop from catching fire! speedfaz is a good app!

Oh yeah, who else here hates the acer support line jazz crap music?
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Mahoney
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2008 22:40
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Quote: "Oh yeah, who else here hates ALL SUPPORT EVAR? "


Fixed.

And yes: either get AV (avast! recommended), or be more careful. Also, get NoScript for Firefox. It helps a fair bit (if not a lot).

Windows Vista Home Premium Intel Pentium Dual-Core 1.6 Ghz 1GB DDR2 RAM GeForce 8600GT Twin Turbo
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Veron
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2008 22:43
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Quote: "Oh yeah, who else here hates the acer support line jazz crap music? "


Jazz is actually quite good, calming music.
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GamerDude
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2008 07:18 Edited at: 3rd Oct 2008 07:19
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i have avast and guess what, 90% complete and only 1 trojan thx for the recommendation. I hate the jazz off acer, i cant get it out of my head thx anyway

PS: why did my wip site thread get locked?
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Veron
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2008 07:23
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Jeku posted the reason.
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Jeku
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2008 08:20 Edited at: 3rd Oct 2008 08:22
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A - You have posted tons of threads in the span of a week, several of which are very similar. Not breaking a written rule but definitely annoying.
B - You double post all the time, even when told not to.
C - The WIP post was basically advertising an empty site and an empty forum. The mods have closed down threads advertising copy-and-paste sites before, and we've been relaxed these last few months.

Cut down on the new threads please and try not to annoy the mods.


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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2008 13:47
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Take care of your laptop dude, get a decent internet security as well.

I may as well add my own problem to this thread, my Acer Aspire 6920G's keyboard has suddenly gotten a bit fussy, it will only work if the screen is a certain angle or if the laptop is leaning forward a bit. Weird, it seem to start happening after I used the internet around my friend's house yesterday, went home, turned on the laptop, started writing and then funky keyboard. It's not a huge problem, I mean I'm at Uni using the internet on my laptop right now and I'm having no problem what-so-ever now.

You sir have the moral ambivalence of a mutated shrimp!
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GamerDude
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2008 13:50
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kk jeku, thx

@sepp

lucky u
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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2008 13:53
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The keyboard problem might be a damaged ribbon cable. If you can remove it easily (some laptop keyboards are held in by little spring loaded clips at the edges) you might be able to replace the keyboard without voiding the warranty.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2008 15:00 Edited at: 3rd Oct 2008 15:02
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Ah cool, cheers - nothing major then, I'll get a techinical type dude to sort it out, just to make sure I can still keep my warrantee. I got friends studying a course in this.

You sir have the moral ambivalence of a mutated shrimp!
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Alucard94
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2008 18:08
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You seem to have a damaged keyboard as well, as your grammar seems inaccurate...


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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 6th Oct 2008 14:10
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"techinical" hmmm...I think I'll blame my keyboard this time...but it seems to be working properly now - however I didn't get anybody to check it out, so it it must be the pixies playing winding me up again...damn those pixies. Let's hope they don't do anything else.

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Alucard94
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Posted: 6th Oct 2008 16:06
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Quote: ""techinical" hmmm...I think I'll blame my keyboard this time...but it seems to be working properly now - however I didn't get anybody to check it out, so it it must be the pixies playing winding me up again...damn those pixies. Let's hope they don't do anything else.
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Sort of meant GamerDude.
So did the computer get fixed or what?


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GamerDude
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Posted: 7th Oct 2008 10:19
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No, my acer is fine now. their support sucks and my grammer is...
... great. thank you
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