Can anyone explain what this is? (Preferably in easy-to-understand
words, please :)

I'm having the following problem: an Acer Travelmate 6000 only detects
one particular hard drive, any other hard disk is not detected by the
BIOS.
Unfortunately I need to replace the hard drive that is detected by the

I've given up on Acer support (and I thought Asus and Abit were bad) after a
month of wasted with meaningless and very occasional responses from them and
in the hope that someone in this NG here can help.
A month ago I tried to upgrade the memory on a friend's Acer Aspire T180

My  Acer Aspire 5630 came with Vista Home Premium installed... I think
it is a pig and I would have a faster and better note book with
Windows XP. The one feature that I am impressed with in Vista is the
ability of my note book to find and connect  to wireless services.

I have a acer and just upgrades the memory from a 1gig to a 2 gig so
that i could play the only 2 games i have which nietheer one will on
this..I have FEAR and DIABLO2 ,is anybody else having problems playing
these,I have the windows vista homepremium,ans was told by 2 people

Just recently, i heard sound coming from the laptop. It sounds like
there is a marble in my fan; kind of like the roulette. I suspect is the
thermal module that's making that sound. In addition, my laptop gets
really hot when i use a lot of CPU. I have consulted with a few friends