Comments on: Packard Bell Easynote BG45-U-300 Overview

By: Matt Martin

Matt Martin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:21:36 +0000

You get what you pay for… Dell do have good service great units to - I worked as a professional technician for a while and wouldn’t touch a HP as the majority of units are glitchy.

By: John

John — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:01:51 +0000

Hello. I have removed my vista and now it is windows 7 64 bit on it. I have also 2,5 Gb ram. it is much better then this win vista with 1 GB ram that was on it from netshop. It was not function at all. it took 10 minutes for it to start up. I send it back to Packard Bell and told them that it was not possible for me to use. They returned it to me and should also let me pay 160 dollar for their control of the laptop. I will never buy a new laptop from acer / packard bell because of their customer support.
I will instead of them use HP and Dell. Both of them have a fantastic customer support.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:59:25 +0000

Has anyone ever managed to upgrade the processor on a BG45? What socket does it have… or does anyone know what other processors are compatible?

By: John P

John P — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:57:10 +0000

Hi Folks. What Windows 7 option did you use to upgrade you BG45? Mine came with Vista Basic and it looks like the Win 7 Home Premium Upgrde does the trick but I have seen some sites saying that you need Vista Home Preium for that uopgrade pack to work. I am keen on moving to the 64 bit install so know I need to do a clean install - again does the Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade version allow that?

Thanks

By: Warren

Warren — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:38:21 +0000

I upgraded my 4GB BG45 to Windows 7 64bit about 5 months ago, its been spot on and I found this forum particularly useful as i utilised the hotkey ATK APP successfully to resolve my hotkeys not working after the upgrade. Strange thing is recently the volume control using the fn and f6/7 no longer controls my audio. I’ve tried upgrading the driver and still no resolution. All other functions work ok so i am puzzled.

Has anyone else experienced this problem and if so, do you know a solution?
Cheers
Warren

By: mcallim7

mcallim7 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:38:48 +0000

More upgrades on my BG45

I have been running Win 7 64bit for 6 weeks now with no issues, i was concerned that i would have to use 32bit, but no the 64 works a treat, looks like it’s time to upgrade the ram to 4Gb

Also tonight i upgraded the WiFi (again) this time i found a SparkLan N Draft card which only requires 2 Ariel points

http://www.oxfordtec.com/uk/MiniPCI-EXPRESS-Wireless/c42/p204/SparkLAN-WPEA-110N–802.11n-a/b/g/N-draft-2.0-2.4/5GHz-Dual-band-2T/2R-Mini-PCI-Express-Module,-Atheros-AR9280,-chipset,-also-compatible-with-most-HP/Compaq/product_info.html

Initially after install the connection speed changed to 130Mbs but after resetting my Router (WAG325N) it went straight to 300Mbs
I will let you all know if there are any issues/updates

By: Nigel

Nigel — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:55:48 +0000

So do you mean it’s just the same content as I have on the recovery discs?

If so I’ll probably just delete it - I have the recovery discs as well as ISO copies of them on another computer.

By: Matt Martin

Matt Martin — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:18:04 +0000

I wouldn’t delete the restore partition if you are unsure of how to recover a PC without one. However if you plug in an external DVD drive you can create Recovery Discs. Once you have them you can delete the partition. Its probably more handy to keep that recovery partition there though for those unexpected times when you need to restore quickly. Its only 10gb.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:39:01 +0000

Hello,

I have an Easynote… Do you know what’s on restore partition?

Can I just delete it, or maybe back it up somewhere else? It would be good to have the extra space, but I still want to be able to recover the laptop if it goes wrong again (last time I recovered it I used an external DVD drive, but I’m not sure if it reads anything from that 10GB partition).

Thanks,

Nigel

By: mcallim7

mcallim7 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:51:36 +0000

Me again.
Im glad to report my EasyNote BG45-U-300 is now running at 108Mbps using my new wifi adapter, we do have a minor niggle though as the 108 speed only comes on when required due to increased traffic flow, however is is not always very quick to change from 54 to 108 when watching the status monitor in the background,
Does anyone know if there is a way to have the 108 speed always on?
thanks in advance