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i feel more comfortable using a mouse so that's what i use most of the time. what i'm going to
try for this erratic mouse behaviour next is to select (check) the "disable internal pointing
device when external usb pointing device is attached" box in control panel and see if that makes any difference.
listen, the drives you've updated on your system....chipset, video card, dvdrom drive and
network....seems like the exact drives i want to concentrate on for now with special emphasis
on the dvd driver.
the reason being that if something should go wrong, i want to be able to use the system
backup i've created on dvds to reinstall. the way it is right now, i'm just not sure if the system
will be able to boot with these dvds.
the other reason is that i just downloaded the windows 8 consumer preview to try out....haven't
installed yet....but you know they first run a check to determine what "is" and "isn't"
compartible on the system. the result was that i need to install an app to play dvd. this more or
less confirms that there is something definitely wrong with the device.
i used pcwizard to gather these informations, hope it makes it easier to help me out.
1) Chipset--Intel HM55
2) Video Card--Intel(R) HD Graphics
3) DVD-ROM Drive--HL-DT-ST- DVD RAM GT30N
4) Network Card--Broadcom Netlink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
5) Network Card--Atheros Communications AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCIe)
6) Card Reader--Alcor ver 1.0.12.50
Rich
from the very first time i visited the acer 4741 download page, i downloaded the "HWVendor
Detection.exe" utility. problem is, the same four apps shows up all the time....Camera-Suyin,
Lan-Broadcom, VGA-Intel, Wireless-Altheros.
and your interpretation of the msg on the 4741 download page to mean there are no downloads
for 4741 have me a little confused.
the msg on the 4741 download page says:
"This page shows only drivers that are not contained in Windows 7".
well, i took that to mean the drivers listed on the 4741 download page did not ship with the
product but are available for download. pls correct me if i'm wrong.
thanks again for the responses