Acer Aspire 8935G 904G50Bn

I have one of these heaps of dung.

I managed to get an extra £100 off the already cheap deal because they miss sold it as a QX processor. The ATI card/Intel processor combination is not powerful enough to cope with playing blu-ray- without serious stutter. 4Gb of DDR3 is pointless on a 32-bit system. Vista on laptops has always been a joke.

I got nowhere with Acer even though I also took out the extended warranty - like most big companies in this day and age, customer service is run by a bunch of people who cannot get proper jobs.

So I stuck two fingers up at Acer - I am still waiting for them to pay my invoice!

I have the two drive version (not sure if all 8935's have an active spare drive bay, if you have the 500gb model) but it may be worth investigating. I shoved over all my important stuff onto drive 2, ripped drive 1 out and wiped all that ACER BLOAT off with a drive scrubber. Did a fresh install with Win7 Home Premium 32bit, downloaded all the drivers and loaded them in order of importance (like in the old days with 95 & 98). Then run driver genius which updated everything other than ATI graphics and Intel chipset (arser have blocked them from installing in BIOS). Most of the Win 7 drivers on the official acer site are well out of date.

I take it all back, it's just died again. Definitely an inherent fault with the Q9000 model.