Re: [OT] New toys, new problems?

"Luke Hooft" <blank@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Lukas Mariman wrote:
>>>> "Alric Knebel" <alric@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>> Lukas Mariman wrote:
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>>>>>> "Lukas Mariman" <lukas.mariman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>> Greeting, carbon units!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I just went crazy (again) and got me a new PC.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> After years of upgrading my existing box piece by piece every so 
>>>>>>> often, I wanted to take the other route and got me a brand PC.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I bought an Acer Aspire M3610, which has an Intel Core 2 Quad 
>>>>>>> processor, and comes with Vista Home Premium (and some assorted 
>>>>>>> software included) preloaded.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Naturally, there don't seem to be any physical copies of Vista or 
>>>>>>> anything else that was installed  - instead there's some
bare-bones 
>>>>>>> do***entation that doesn't really help at all, and a few blank 
>>>>>>> "recovery" DVDs.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Still figuring out how I am supposed to make a backup of Vista.
:-/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Anyway, just sharing this touching stuff with you dudes/dudettes.
If 
>>>>>>> any of you have Acer stuff as well, I'd love to read what you
think 
>>>>>>> of it. Any experiences, horror stories etc. :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> BTW, I'd like to formally give Hewlett-Packard the middle finger
for 
>>>>>> not bothering to write any Vista compatible drivers for my existing

>>>>>> Printer (Photosmart 7660) and scanner (Scanjet 3500c). Sure,
they're 
>>>>>> not the latest and greatest, but they're not exactly ancient 
>>>>>> technology either!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How much time and effort is it for a high-profile technology 
>>>>>> multinational to have someone write some drivers for some of their 
>>>>>> own products?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am NOT amused. :-(
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That's an interesting complaint.  When it comes time for me to buy a

>>>>> new computer (which will be before the year's out), I'm going to
make 
>>>>> it an HP.  The reason is that they have excellent sup****t.  Whenever
I 
>>>>> wanted to make a change to my computer, I'd get online for the
online 
>>>>> sup****t chat, and I'd get what I needed to know in a live chat. 
>>>>> Whenever I had hardware or software malfunctions I couldn't solve,
I'd 
>>>>> go online again. They provide this for their customers long after
the 
>>>>> warranty has expired.  If you CALL them for sup****t after the
warranty 
>>>>> has expired, you have to pay a hefty sum.  The online chat is free, 
>>>>> and they've never failed to provide a solution.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I see. Well, I'm not asking for much; just some working drivers would

>>>> be nice.
>>>
>>> Try the online chat.  They'll more than likely get you what you need.
>>
>> Allright, that might be worth a try.
>>
>> You'd think though that there are more people out there with this 
>> problem. Or maybe I really AM the only Photosmart 7660 user left. :-)
>
> Perhaps try the XP drivers if you haven't already? Sometimes they seem
to 
> work with Vista, for certain hardware.

Well, here's an update... Thanks for the suggestions though.

As it turns out HP recommends a certain HP driver that IS included with 
Vista (presumably a similar model) that should work for my printer.

And with some digging on their site I did find some EXE file for my
scanner, 
whatever it is or does, so I SHOULD be set.

I haven't tested either... yet.