Had to concede defeat on the laptop running Windows 7. Don’t get me wrong, loved the OS, but just could not handle to pathetic video performance.
Even games like Solitaire were unplayable, utube vids were 1 fps (or slower) etc. in short the machine was close to unusable in any meaningful definition. Problem is the video hardware was obsolete even before Vista came out, and no drivers have been produced for anything newer than XP, and they failed to load correctly in Vista.
Re-formatted the HDD last night and reloaded the original ACER factory build from the recovery CD’s. Tonight I need to connect it to the interweb and download a shed full of updates, but I think I will download the ‘offline’ XP SP3 to the thumb drive, and at least install that first…!
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