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hi again, some of the mini ones i have looked at have a graphics card allready fitted but i would need to fit my wireless card so then again i might be safer going for a full size tower and the ones i am looking at all have windows 7. are the micro motherboards more prone to faults or anything like that ? thanks again.

hi, sorry, i tried the old one and same issue, im starting to think its an issue with the motherboard or the processer as it wont tollerate a graphics card being added regardless of the psu being more than capable and now the issue with on board sound so i have decided just to live with it for now, i have looked at some re-conditioned desktop "dell" pcs on ebay, ones that have been in offices and workplaces and alot of them have a superior spec to what i have just now and some are giving a years guarantee also, alot of them im looking at are the smaller "mini tower" (which i assume have the micro mother board) at the moment i have the normal size tower but that also has the micro motherboard - if thats what you call it! Am i better to just go for a full size tower with full size motherbaord? are there and dissadvantages to the micro motherbaords? are the full sized ones better ? i just like the look of the miniture sized tower. cheers.

i am attempting to re-install this laptop back to a factory state for a friend, xp is stored on a partition of the hard drive rather than on a seperate disk (which is ALOT easier! but anyway). what i need to know is how to do this as i dont know how to get into the re-store feature, can someone give me step by step instructions please ? thanks

hi, managed to format it then re-install windows 7 but no luck, problem still persists. im at a loose end on what to do now...

when you say fully formatting how is this achieved ? cheers

i think i will just re-install windows, if that doesnt stop the crackling issues then god knows, i forgot to say the computer had a new power supply unit fitted before windows 7 was put on, it was only fitted to power the graphics card that the computer seemed to reject. could it be the power pack thats causing interference? cheers

hi again, i tried what you suggested, d/c from internet then turn off firewall etc but no joy, i have just realised that i have had windows updates set to important only so i am downloading optionals to see if theres anything in one of them that on the off chance may cure the issse. one other thing that has been happening since installing 7 is when watching video on you tube i occasionally get a message relating to "shockwave flash player" (i think thats what its called!) and "stop / continue pluggin" ?? cheers!

hi again, yes i have tried that in hope it would solve it, no luck, still crackling. perhaps my computer just doest like windows 7 ?

hi, no it didnt make any difference, it still crackles, i dont have malwarebytes and i have allready tried the vista driver from the acer website, the computer rejected it.

hi, thanks for reply, its a 32 bit and it come with service pack 1. i went into device manager and the driver version was 6.1.7601.17514, i then uninstalled it and rebooted the computer, as it started back up it made the windows sound. i then went back into device manager and the same driver number was there ?? thanks

hi, the computer is an "acer aspire M1610" it was intended for use with windows vista but i got rid and put xp on it and have since upgraded to 7.it has 1024mb ram and as for the sound it is the realtec hd audio. i posted previous that i also tried to put a graphics card in for superior graphics and do away with on board but that ended in failure regardless of trying all the points that were mentioned on here and couldnt get to the bottom of it so have put up with on board graphics and now this issue with the sound. if it helps the cracklings with everything, startup tone, media player, you tube. thanks

hi all, as above although it may seem strange! since instslling windows 7 a few weeks ago the sound is very crackly, the sound is on board, i have been into device manager and windows says driver is up to date,its the best driver for this device and working perfectly, i thought possibly a bad connection in the jack point on the rear of the computer so plugged into the unused jack point on the front, same problem then i went and bought a brand new set of speakers...same problem !! ?? the speakers are usb powered also. help thanks

hi ken, i can confirm i disabled the on board drivers and uninstalled old drivers before updating to newer ones. could memory be the issue as it only has 1 gb and 1gb is the miminum for a 32 bit windows 7 operating system so could it be the case that all the memory is being used up for the operating system ? thanks. thanks

hi again, again no luck. could it be the "intel celeron cpu 430 @ 1.80ghz" thats just not good enough? cheers

hi again, we used the drivers that come with the graphics card then we were given the option to update to the latest driver so the driver was the most up to date for the nvidia card.