Acer Aspire One Netbooks

As I have surfed with an Aspire One for quite a long time, I was asked to write or tell the whole personal value it had provided in any form. Instead of an insight into my life, I am going to add some specs in general for a later review.

The best of all netbooks, of course, will be my one - but really the same as all the same aspire one models . The brand has been born in Taiwan, grown worldwide and different from everyone that has been sold already it is yet being sold in growing varieties. Acer Corporation is an incorporation of computer systems and hardware, because the brand is being enfolded in meaning as the genus of maple trees was and it is incorporating the sugar of energy regulations by now. ACER is an abbreviation as well for European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER), directing to the European Body of Electronic Communication Regulators (BEREC) and fitted with an endless number of unique capabilities, crowned symbolically by an Armored Combat Engineer Robot, created by Mesa Robotics.

Acer Incorporated is a multinational computer technology and electronics corporation for IT services. Acer Group is headquartered in Xizhi, New Taipei City, Taiwan. Subsidiaries are Acer America Corporation, Acer Computer Australia, Acer India, Gateway Inc., Packard Bell, eMachines and E-TEN. Acer Aspire may be one of manyfolded series of desktop computers, notebooks and one of the eleven Aspire One netbooks.

This subnotebook/netbook tolerates 8 and 16 GB SSDs and obligationally 120/160 Gigabyte as well as 250 GB hard drive disks. Possible operating systems are Linpus Linux Lite, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 Starter, powered by 3-cell batteries with each of  2.2 Ah, 2.4 Ah, 2.7 Ah, 2.9 Ah or 6-cell batteries of 4.4Ah, 5.2 Ah or 6.6 Ah. The central processing unit with 1.6 Ghz and the Intel atom processor of 1.66 Ghz, N270-N280, carry through the web with incomparable speed. The latest fit of 1.7 GHz AMD Athlon II with the neo memory of 512 MB, 1 GB, 1.5 GB, 2 GB will prove unreachable reliability of electronic power, compressed on one small mainboard inside. The display sizes vary between 10.1 in (26 cm),11.6 in (29 cm), 8.9 in (23 cm) 1024×600 and 1366×768 LCD_TFT resolution (with HD glossy LED LCD input of 89% or 100% ). The fully sized keyboard and touch pad, a camera with 0.3 Mp Suyin or 1.3 Mp Liteon and integrated Webcam , all they guarantee smart handling and mobility throughout each working day with three USB ports and a 5-in-1 card reader that is yet fitting every purpose. The VGA video-out port, 3.5mm audio jacks, the Realtek 10/100 Mbit/s LAN, Atheros 802.11b/g WLAN and ethernet connection provide with a unique informational, fast and practicable companion for even 3G and UMTS networks. Finally the weight as well as its size suit every small pocket.

Unknown Device/Device Driver/Unbekanntes Gerät/Treiber Update

Updates for Fujitsu computers and laptops are located on their support sites, filed under drivers and downloads. Fujitsu FUJ02B1 driver downloads differ by product/model/operating system, but the files' name is the same. If this driver isn't being installed by a driver update program or the device manager, an ISO image file of FUJ02B1 written onto CD ROM or floppy disk will help.

If it isn't yet recognized by your device, it may be necessary to open one of the Flash BIOS ISO image .zip files after their download and to move the single, unzipped files to cd, disk or to input the directory path to the .BUP file into the OS_System/MS DOS. To install both ISO files (BIOS and FUJ02B1) should activate the FUJ02B1 driver and won't leave an unknown device.

ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Series in HP Compaq nc6000 without AMD Athlon

My ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Series graphic card had run optimally with an Intel Pentium IV CPU and nVidia graphic driver with neither a Ge/NForce processor nor graphic card.

After an ATI Controller installation via the HP Compaq nc6000 driver download page for WinXPProf (look up the link of my latest posts) white frames around several start up symbols and basically long buffering of YouTube videos hindered me from enjoying HP Compaq nc6000 videos as before. De-installation of the ATI Controller and re-installation of a common ATI Radeo driver has not yet brought back the video quality of the former nVidia driver, but the common one is compatible with all device components as well - opposited the nVidia driver was corrupted after deinstallation of the ATI Controller of any series.

This ATI driver, catalyst and controller download did not show white frames on my screen, but videos were played only with - partly very long lasting - interruptions and buffering. In contrast, that VGA Driver ATI.zip file on Cnet.com hadn't been recognized by WinXPProf.

Audio Driver Incompability

Conexant audio driver had had destroyed every audio and video driver installation ( the ATI video controller as well) - system recovery was impossible, but reformatting the whole hard disk was successful. My HP Compaq nc6000 is running better than before.

Personal Events and Failures

My latest laptop, HP Compaq nc6000 is awaiting a new system installation, due to overclocking. Agere Systems AC'97 Modem driver (980kb) reported an installation failure, then I downloaded Conexant CX20468-31 AC97 Audio Driver EQ (316kb and 960kb, both released at March 31, 2005) and installed these three drivers/updates. Meanwhile, ADI Soundmax Audio Driver was activated automatically, but all installations were successful finally. After a system restart, defragmentation and registry cleaning everything seemed perfect.

But while MS Windows Scan Disk was executing, the screen suddenly splashed and three penetrating sirens were yelling - therefore I forced the system shut down by the switch off button. The boot process is to be as follows: ROM BIOS executes the logo, splash screen, MSWindows logo, but now the Welcome to Windows log in screen is no longer displayed. Neither safe mode nor network access mode can start up now, although HP's troubleshooting pages suggest that the hard disk is not destroyed yet.

Acer Aspire One z5g AOD150 Disassembly

Now I have removed the last screw. One battery, CPU and CMOS had caused strong traces of oxidization on the rear of the keyboard. For two and half a year I had used it ca. 18 hours daily.

Self-Repair HP Compaq nc6000 Notebook PC

How to locate parts of your laptop is shown here. How to remove/replace/repair parts these videos display.

HP Compaq nc6000 Updates Download Links

Hewlett-Packard's free download pages enable 53 updating programs:

	BIOS,
»	Driver,
»	Driver - Audio,
»	Driver - Graphics,
»	Driver - Graphics - Intel,
»	Driver - Keyboard, Mouse and Input Devices,
»	Driver - Modem,
»	Driver - Network,
»	Driver - Printer,
»	Driver - Storage,
»	Firmware,
»	Operating System,
»	Operating System - Enhancements and QFEs,
»	Software - Network,
»	Software - Security,
»	Software - Solutions,
	Software - System Management,

I gratefully explore all these free goods looking forward to use my over-aged device. WinXP does not only change its outlook, it seems new to me.

Personal Updates

As my Aspire One zg5 AOD150 does no longer start up successfully, I urgently needed a substitute, and I discovered a big deal at Amazon.de for 150€. Proud owner of a real HP Business Notebook, Compaq nc6000, 1.4GH Intel Pentium M, Intel Centrino inside,  30GB hard disk, French keyboard, Win XP/Pro, I discovered on HP's Sites the warranty of s/n, p/n and model identity late: Expired since 2000-01-23, but I am going to explore my refurbished laptop happily inspite of its age.  MS Updates took 15GB of hard disk, HP updates will take 10GB in all.

Download mscf3.5cab file

Took me a long time to find a direct link to the cab file, thanks to jayceooi - for them who cannot synchronize now: http://www.jayceooi.com/2010/02/26/download-microsoft-net-compact-framework-3-5-cab-for-htc-hd2/. This cab file may be installed on every Windows Mobile System  - all programs will run by the appropriate runtime automatically, all runtimes simply coexist in the implemented ROM, unnecessary to exchange registry values.

Windows Mobile /CE

Here, you need an account before you may download the extracted cab file. The arm4 processor is unnecessary for the installation.