BIOS 3307a out

Discussion in 'Acer Aspire One' started by techiediva, Nov 11, 2008.

  1. techiediva

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    3307A fixed the last remaining problem I was experiencing. I've owned my A150 for just over two months and during that time I would occasionally have a problem where I'd put the One to sleep just before leaving the house. Once I arrived at my wifi enabled destination I'd open the One and find the battery meter saying I have less than 10% battery left even though I knew it was fully charged. A reboot would fix it but who wants to do that? I've tried pretty much all bios releases for the past two months but the problem persisted until I installed 3307A. I've been running 3307A for the past week and the battery meter problem hasn't happened yet even though I've been trying hard to reproduce it. I'm running Vista and I can't discount the possibility of it being a Vista problem even though I've never had it happen on a few other laptops in my possession.

    I'm also getting noticeably better battery life with 3307A. I noticed the extended battery life as soon as I upgraded but I wanted to test it a few times before posting here about it. My runtimes were consistently around 120 minutes with previous bios versions and I'm getting 150 minutes now. I'm hesitant to give all the credit to the bios because I installed flashblock within firefox the same day I upgraded the bios. Flash enabled sites really seem to chew up processor time. I'm using the Fan Control software from this forum and I have it set to kick the fan on at the 70 degree temp. Just idling on flash enabled pages would sometimes kick the fan on. Flashblock has virtually eliminated this issue. I'm rarely above 60 degrees when browsing now. I'm sure the Flashblock plugin has a lot to do with the improved runtimes because the cpu isn't working as hard.
     
    Guest, Nov 20, 2008
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  2. techiediva

    cj_electro285

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    hello, i want to upgrade my bios to 3305. how to do that with a flashdrive? thanks.
     
    cj_electro285, Dec 6, 2008
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