Once again it has been a long time since I've posted. No projects lately, a combination of nothing coming my way, and a LOT of overtime at work.
Some time ago, I had an Acer AOA150, it came back to me a couple of months ago! Good old Junior (Its name...yes, it has a name!) LOL
I posted on what I had done to it some time ago (320Gb, 7,200 HD, maxed out the ram, blah, blah, blah.
I Acer E-recovery, updated everything and installed my favorite programs. When I was done I found that it wasn't charging the battery any more, once again the BIOS had become corrupt (3rd time since I bought it)
Back to the Acer website to download the current BIOS! I ran the Flashget program, and VIOLA! It is once again charging the battery.
Sometime soon I'd like to start another project, but that will have to wait, I bought a motorcycle and a 4x4 this year, oops! didn't plan on both! LOL, but I have had fun!
Catch you later!

"I Can" man!

Acer AO756-2840

I picked this up yesterday, it's an Acer AO756-2840. It comes with an Intel Celeron 847, and 2Gb of DDR3 10600 ram.

As it turns out I was quite wrong about being able to upgrade the processor, it is indeed soldered directly to the mother board....ARG! Too bad. I will be upgrading the ram and hard drive yet, anything to boost the performance of this very nice net-book.

It will be a while before I can do any upgrades to this one. There are other things that I need to take care of at the moment. Life is good!

"ICanMan"
 

A new ride! Weight update.

I picked this up last week, a 2007 Yamaha XVS1100 V Star 1100 Midnight Custom. 9,000 miles on it, and in perfect condition. The bike already has a hyper charger, Cobra custom exhaust, and has been jetted. What a NICE ride! I've already had it out for a ride (Bringing it home) only 9 miles, I tell ya, it was 32 and windy out, but I enjoyed the ride home! OH YEAH! I can't wait to get this out on a really nice day and go for a LONG ride!
For now, it is covered up and stored, far too cold to et it out and enjoy it at all.
Weight update: I'm staying steady at 207, 56 pounds less than my previous weight. I'm still hoping to shed the last 15 pounds, hopefully when I can get out when it is warmer and get some good exercise...might be a while.
Time to head off!

Later all!


"I CAN" man

Asus K501, Jelly Bean update and the government steps in.!

I picked up a broken Asus K501 this week, not a major repair, it had been dropped and it broke the hard drive. It only took a couple of hours to re-install the operating system and updates and it was ready to go! The only other thing I did was to max out the ram (A disappointing 4Gb) On an interesting note, this is the first "modern" notebook that I've worked on that had 2Gb of ram built into the motherboard? Interesting? It was built in a way that makes it easy to work on, quite easy. Five screws, and the entire bottom panel comes off, GREAT idea guys! REALLY!

  The K501 is a nice laptop if your not planning on doing any gaming on it. The system ratings are low (A measly 3.3 out of 7.9) However, it will surf the web, play video's, and do most anything you ask of it. I only had it in my hands for two days, gone already! Not a machine I would replace my current laptop with, but a nice unit anyhow.

**Samsung OFFICIALLY released Jelly Bean for the 7" Tab 2 (Through its update service) on Friday. It will take some getting used to, but I'm up to the challenge!

As all of you are more than likely aware, Mozilla released Firefox 18 last week, faster, safer, blah, blah! LOL! Get it! It works great!

On another interesting note, the government last week recommended that if you use Java, you disable it for now. There is a security flaw that will let a hacker take over your computer.....no fix released yet!

I'm still busy at work, it will be that way for a while, so my posts will be sporadic, like they have been.