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Bad_Dude, << Jerks that bought drives online and return them to our store or exchanging drives at our stores. >> i don't care what brand i get as long as it is NOT DEFECTIVE, so i asked for the exchange without specifying the serial number pattern. i received another acer, and came home...

<< Acer and Aopen are two different companies. >> not according to the aopen homepage. aopen homepage from the linked page, << AOpen manufactures computer components as part of the successful $7 billion Acer group. >> prior to getting on this deal, I didn't know acer had optical drives. i...

intel ata companion says dma is on, i also tried with promise ultra100, which automatically turns dma on when supported devices are detected. the drive was detected as dma 2. of course, having looked at the cpu utilization, i know it couldn't have possibly been in the dma mode. i remember...

I am not sure that I am allowed to do this without getting permission from the author, but I will do it anyway. If someone knows that I am not allowed for any reasons, the AT policies, or else, let me know please. I would like to ask others who received the acer to verify these problems shared...

first, thanks to MysticMan1 for the deal. I received my unit today, it is acer, manufactured in jan. 2002, firmware version p.mj. I tried 2 discs to test. the machine is cel 1g, i815 chipset, onboard ultra100 IDE (slave on ide1). 1st disc took 5:31, cpu usage close to full (88-100%), in...

you could take the hard out if you are careful. I replaced mine with 20g hard several months ago. I am not aware of any usb cdrom drive that works under dos. i got this laptop two years ago, it was $1200 (refurb.) and I am still using it, though I would buy a better laptop with a bigger screen...