Hi!
> Thanks again, but I have one more problem with the same Acer.
> The sound on this laptop is sometimes very squeaky and scratchy.
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I would go to the Acer web site and see if a newer audio driver is available
for your model. It is also possible that the internal speakers are broken.
Have you tried external speakers or careful (!!!) use of headphones to see
if the problem is still there?
Good luck with your laptop. It should be a lot happier now, and it will have
a longer useful life if you clean the dust out every now and then. Hopefully
one of your fans doesn't fail:
If you have a few minutes
http://greyghost.mooo.com/d800fanrepair/ is the
story of the fan that doesn't officially seem to exist in my Dell laptop. It
too was a lot happier after being serviced.
William