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   Sentinel to Father Viv   
   Re: PC stuff   
   16 May 08 18:40:16   
   
   From: darth.vader@empire.gov   
      
   Father Viv wrote:   
   > Sentinel wrote:   
   >> On 16 mei, 10:40, "POD  {Ò¿Ó}"  wrote:   
   >>> Sentinel  once tried to test me. I ate   
   >>> their liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti   
   >>>   
   >>>> For those who care,   
   >>>> a small update on my Acer PC.   
   >>>> I tried out an XP install on the Acer Aspire M3610, which went   
   >>>> pretty smoothly, except for the fact that XP needs some drivers   
   >>>> for the mothereboard which is a MRS600M model.   
   >>>> Alas, Acer does not support XP so they do not offer any drivers   
   >>>> that might help. If any of you know where to find drivers for this   
   >>>> mobo, I'd be a happy camper. Whatever that means!   
   >>> What you do is go into the device manager and look at the hard disc   
   >>> controller, then if it's Intel, or AMD, NVidia or SIS, you just   
   >>> download those chipset drivers... Else take the side off and have a   
   >>> look for white paintwork on the board to identify it.   
   >>>   
   >>> Else get one of these utilities that identifies all your hardware.   
   >>   
   >> Thanks for the tips; I'll do some investigating this weekend.   
   >   
   > Download CPU-Z or PCWizard... they'll tell you what's what and what's   
   > not...   
      
   Thanks, Father!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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