Anybody have the One 725 C-60 Netbook? What`s your keyboard like.

Hi.

Just received my 725, but the keyboard buttons, Fn, left alt, windows key and S and D seem very low, that entire area but those keys are the worst, I took the back cover off, and it`s the area where the cpu heatsink is, so i dont know if the keyboard can be adjusted.

Thanks

John.

 

I have boxed it up to be returned.

John.

 

That's probably a good idea. Will you get a replacement unit or did you dive up on it altogether?

 

I was having problems playing 720p youtube video`s fullscreen, I had the latest flash player 4gb memory and an ssd, I dont think the cpu is powerful enough, gpu acceleration was enabled, so i will be looking for something a little more powerfull

John.

 

Hardware acceleration wasn't working then, because it can do 1080p flawlessly when it does.

 

I had the latest flash, and i right clicked the video in youtube and it said hardware acceleration was enabled, i clicked of the info button and there was a load of dropped frames, so i dont know what was wrong.

I had catalyst 12.8 running as well.

John.

 

Well i thought i would give another 725 a go, i hope the faulty keyboard is not a feature

John.

 

Well, good luck this time

 

Just got my new 725, the keyboard looks fine one this one

Something strange, the hdd in my first 725 was an Western Digital 330GB 9.5mm , my new 725 came with an Seagate 330GB 7mm , and they used a rubber sticky ring to make up for the 2.5mm difference in height which i had to remove before i could fit my 9.5mm SSD

I have not tried the rest of the netbook yet, still setting the software up.

EDIT : HDtune says i have a 4 relocated sector count, on a new hdd , see below from the Seagate website

John.

 

Your right it does player 1080p on YouTube fine, as long as the netbook is not doing anything at the same time. +REP

John.

 

That's blocks. Re-allocated sectors- especially more than one- are a clear sign of the drive failing.
This drive is useless as it is- don't use it for storage or anything important.

You can try to keep it running just to make it fail and then send it back (with a notebook I assume) or simply write it off as it is.
Anyway- it's not safe to keep anything on it.

 

It`s actually "Reallocation Event Count" is it the same?, and it`s went from 4 to 6 in only a couple of hours.

Reallocation Event Count S.M.A.R.T. attribute

John.

 

Not the same but it's about the same thing.
Re-allocation event count shows how many attempts have been made to re-allocate sector or sectors. Reallocated sectors count shows how many sectors were successfully re-allocated and pending sector count shows how many are still left waining to be re-allocated.

So Reallocation Event Count value of 6 can apply to one and the same sector that the drive attempted to re-allocate but have failed to do so.
In some cases SMART status doesn't show pending sectors and re-allocated sectors even though it shows repeated attempts to re-allocate something.

Either way that's a bad thing.
Can you post a SMART status (full set of values)

 

Sorry, it`s boxed up now and it`s going back tomorrow, the space bar on the keyboard was sticking a bit as well, so two for two not very good Acer.

Thanks downloads +REP

John.

 

Well i have a third 725 on order, third time lucky

John.

 

I got my third 725 today, and again this brand new seagate 330gb has 4 Re-allocation event count as well, what is segate playing at

John.

 

I have had that with an external Seagate drive, and even two years later it still works. For me, it went up to 12 I believe, and then stopped. You should stress test the drive for a few hours an see what happens.

BTW, is your keyboard fine this time?

 

John, check SMART status with another application. Sometimes you can get a false-positive due to an error within the app itself.
If it's not a false-positive it means Seagate is crap.

 

I have have an 1tb segate with recalibrating errors, I have a segate xt 250gb with end to end errors, and now two seagte 330gb with Re-allocation event count, i am not having much luck with segate, my first 725 had a Western Digital 330gb in it, but i had to return it because of the faulty keyboard.

The keyboard on my latest 725 seems ok, but i have just finished doing the microsoft updates so i have not used the keyboard much.

John.

 

You probably cannot look at the last digit in the raw value column and conclude that the drive has 4 reallocation events. For instance, that value (612100000004) is exactly the same as F0, head flying hours. Honestly, I think the drive is fine. SMART values are not always entirely easy to make sense of.