If you tried to use pre-Vista drivers then that's a sign. See if they issued Vista drivers.
We picked up 2 Acers and operation has been flawless. However we rejected the Norton offer, installed Free AVG and don't use IE. Tell me about your use.
And ... not a single lockup or blue screen. Remember the above and that I didn't load any old drivers.
Bob
I have a acer laptop 5100-3357 model. I have had several problems. i will list them in sequence:
1. a few weeks after having my laptop i have had a few bluescreens after trying to use a webcam (that worked fine on my windows 98 pc) with msn messenger.
2. a couple of months later my laptop started freezing on me and wouldn't allow me to log in onto my username. This happens to be a common problem with acer computers & also with all the users of my laptop. to be specific it would freeze up a lot while loading the desktop but it would happen very randomly.
I am now considering switching to windows xp b/c someone i now has an acer laptop with windows xp and it works great, please help.

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