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Since a few months I'm having problems with my Aspire 1600. After a while the machine starts to stutter and when I'm running a program that displays my cpu usage, I can sometime see it sky rocket to well over 100%. I thought it was an overheating problem (I still don't rule that out) but when running HMonitor I don't see the cpu going over 70’ C and my HDD goes to 30’ C. I don't think these are disturbing values so I don't think my cpu or hdd are broken.

I think I can rule out the possibility of a virus infection cause my laptop has never seen the internet. All software is scanned on my pc bofre it heads to my notebook. My HDD has about 17 gigs left so I don;t think there could be any problem with that either. I always defrag my disc every week and keep my notebook very clean (use Ccleaner).

My system is off waranty so I don't want to pay myself crossed eyes for something that I could have resolved myself (or with help of u ;-). Does anyone have a clue about what the heck is wrong with my notebook? I've read allot about the 1600's overheating and that the thermal paste Acer used was crap. But these cases allways had the machine drop out when it overheated and mine doesn't drop out: it starts to stutter. Also, when I watch a dvd it happens. But it doens't happen when is use less resource hungry stuff.

Again, iff anybody could give me a clue, I'ld apriciate that.

[medic43]

I have the Acer 1691WLMi, and strangely I experienced possibly similar problems. In my case the symptoms were similar to having the cpu slowed right down, I was getting stuttering, which sounded like a bad speech stammer when it was playing back any wav files etc, and also when I was running more than one task at a time. ie. everything running slow.

My problem started when I was trying to install a game, when I had problems reading the second install CD due to a faulty CD (Now changed) as a result the laptop hung a couple of times, and that was when the stammering started. I was on a caravan holiday when this happened, but on returning home I simply used a previously burned backup cd which I had done a few days before and this fixed it for me.
So I can only assume that the registry speed settings for the cpu got screwed up somehow, and no amount of messing with the CPU speed in the Acer Power manager would fix it.
Very strange!

[BudSpencer]

I have Acer aspire 1600 and i install de latest omega drive. My problem is different like this. I read the faq page and he mention some laptos crash when try to watch a video or dvd. This is my problem, i go to acer webpage and dowload the only bios they have and i have the same problem. My question is if sombody that have the same laptop it has solved this. thnx.[color=#ff0000][/color]

[GNetX]

Originally Posted by BudSpencer

I have Acer aspire 1600 and i install de latest omega drive. My problem is different like this. I read the faq page and he mention some laptos crash when try to watch a video or dvd. This is my problem, i go to acer webpage and dowload the only bios they have and i have the same problem. My question is if sombody that have the same laptop it has solved this. thnx.

Acer have not released a BIOS update that specifically addresses this issue and the issue will remain whichever BIOS you use if you use a recent ATI driver release. The only resolution is to use an older graphics driver - the ATI driver on the Aspire 1600 support page is the latest version of Catalyst which doesn't have this issue. Unfortunately, any more recent versions than that one will suffer the video stutter issue. However, most game fixes and updates in the latest drivers don't affect the Radeon Mobility 9000 which is in the Aspire 1600, so using the latest drivers has little advantage.

Please let me know via PM if you would like any more help on this issue.

GNetX.