Comments on: Original Acer Aspire One hard drives crash at the sound of Bono’s voice

By: Dajerutneusa

Dajerutneusa — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 02:17:00 +0000

Come on guys, remember whatever physics we were taught even in high school, how a singer at the right note, pitch, volume, or whatever can break a crystal wine glass.
How and when Joshua had the horns blown and shattered the walls of Jericho. Ultrasonic and sb-sonic noises are nothing to be messing with!

Besides, SSD’s remind me of the RAM disks of the old dos days, and when I bootted up it was from a 1.44 floppy stuck in “A” drive/slot. If SSD’s can be trusted to retain forever software installed, fine, but if not, not fine. And with how many GIG’s most software eats up now a days SSD’s better have more room than the 16G I have noticed on some uniits.

By: Dajerutneusa

Dajerutneusa — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 02:17:00 +0000

By: rey gonzales

rey gonzales — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:34:45 +0000

i have lost my sound driver and i bought two recovery drivers and still no sound. please help me figure out my administrator pass word

By: rey gonzales

rey gonzales — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:34:45 +0000

i have lost my sound driver and i bought two recovery drivers and still no sound. please help me figure out my administrator pass word

By: Sam Gilon

Sam Gilon — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:52:07 +0000

I suggest that you format the HDD, install Windows XP Professional SP3. Get all the drivers from the Acer website. I had miy Aspire One with Windows XP Home plus some other stuff it came with, and it was a piece of @#$%. After the reinstallation it's perfect.

By: Sam Gilon

Sam Gilon — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:21:59 +0000

I had the same proble, this time with the Andre Rieu orchestra playing “Brazil” full blast from youtube. Looks like the hard drive got into some kind of resonance and was making crazy noises. The screen went blue with some warning messages. I had to remove the battery for the thing to stop.
Once I reinstalled the battery and restarted the laptop everything went back to normal.
I then tried the same again and heard the same kind of noise. luckily I managed to switch-off the laptop speakers immediately and the noises diappeared.
Are Acer aware of this “magic”?

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:27:15 +0000

Hmm… It Happened To Me Not Playing U2 Songs But Using The Internet On Wi-fi Then Weeks Later Using My Cricket Modem
Lesson Well Learned Stay Away From Acer!

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:27:14 +0000

Hmm… It Happened To Me Not Playing U2 Songs But Using The Internet On Wi-fi Then Weeks Later Using My Cricket Modem
Lesson Well Learned Stay Away From Acer!

By: Acer Aspire One User Notes, 8 Month Summary « Desert of the Mind

Acer Aspire One User Notes, 8 Month Summary « Desert of the Mind — Mon, 18 May 2009 02:32:30 +0000

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By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:50:42 +0000

I own one of these and it flakes out /crashes all the time. There are two recurring problems. One, it will just boot over and over again. I figured out you can do a restore by holding ALT-F10 during the boot process. Never store important files on this computer you will lose them. Second, I'm currently looking at a completely dead Acer One. The power light is on but no one is home. It won't do anything.

Lastly, the support is a joke buy the stores warranty if you feel compelled to own this PC. I'm out $350.00

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:26:12 +0000

This is EXACTLY why any netbook I have now, and any netbook I get in the future will have an SSD. Hard drives are so 20th century. It's time to give these dinosaurs a rest. In five years (TRUST ME) hard drives will be a dying breed. SSD or other storage mechanism will have completely replaced it, and the only hard drives available will be used and refurbished units.

By: Harry

Harry — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:17:00 +0000

Thinking about the traditional laptops that I know about, most have the speakers far from the hard disk, which apparently makes good design sense.

Going through the links in that article, I found this youtube link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

which shows a similar problem in high end Sun RAID hardware. A guy shouts in front of the disks, and performance drops. Funny thing though. The environment is already very noisy. So I guess it is sudden sharp sounds that do this, rather than constant background noise.

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By: whomever

whomever — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:24:32 +0000

Word.

I was very disappointed to watch the industry move away from SSD and adopt HDDs nearly universally. It goes against the intent of the netbook. HDDs use more power, and are prone to failure from moving parts, and the extra capacity is unnecessary. Sure, SSDs are more expensive on a per-gigabyte basis, but if netbooks used them more, it would help drive the price down and capacities would eventually catch up anyway.