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I bought an acer Aspire 5742Z laptop (with a Intel HD 128 MB GFX card) back in May 2011 and I think I'm starting to see a problem with the screen. I first noticed it last night and again this morning. Intermittently the screen seems to lose saturation, that is the picture seems greyer/more washed out than normal. It comes and goes lasting for only ten or so seconds at a time.
Is anyone aware of any issues with the model laptop or the graphics card that might cause this?
Update
I've just checked the Windows Update history and a new driver was installed on the 14/12/2011. I've rolled this driver back to see if that has any effect.
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My laptop shuts down.
It happened several times so far, and there is a pattern; after I leave it for an hour or so, power saving activates, and then I start using it again for 10 - 15 minutes when it shuts down with no prior warning.
I'm pretty sure that it's not an overheating issue, because I keep it in a fairly cold room, and the laptop is not hot at all after shutting down (it can get much warmer, without shutting down).
I use Windows 7 so that could be the problem, because I never had this problem while using Windows XP. The laptop is an Acer Aspire.
Do you know if there are some settings in Win 7 that can be changed to stop this?
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I am using Acer Laptop one day before my Hard Disk is not detected in BIOS and not booting it's shows Insert Boot Disk and I am try another H.D.D it's boot perfectly in my Laptop but,I want detect and recover my data on not detected hard disk. I am not experience about Hard Disk please, can any one help me how to recover my data from not detected Hard Disk.
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Would it be better to use a USB or a SD card as use for ReadyBoost? I run windows 7 on a acer aspire laptop.
It has a built in SD-card reader, and usb 2.0 ports.
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Can I replace a SODIMM SDRAM with SODIMM DRAM in my Acer aspire 5742g?
I want to update my memory, but all this types are confusing me.
I looked at my computers memory and it says it has a SODIMM DDR3 SDRAM, i checked what they mean, but I am now looking to buy, and the only ones i found SDRAM are normal DIMM rams which are for desktop computers.
Does anyone has any idea?
EDIT: DDR4 to DDR3
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I just got a new Asus Aspire Revo, put the batteries in the wireless keyboard and mouse, but I can't get the system to recognize either. What am I doing wrong?
Note: There are next to no instructions with this product.
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Acer Aspire One has a 13 GB Recovery Partition.
Is it possible to backup this partition to a network share?
If so, how do I do that?
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The Acer Aspire 7738 has a large blue light emitting power button, top left on the keyboard. Its light is rather distracting and I want to turn it off.
How can I disable this light?
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I have a fan on my laptop that doesn't turn on often enough. The computer doesn't crash, but becomes very laggy.
When the fan turns on the computer starts running fast again.
How can I keep the fan on? I use Acer Aspire 5733Z on Windows 7. I tried SpeedFan but it couldn't detect the fan.
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I have been trying to enable Virtualization of my cpu to run a 64 bit guest OS. Anybody having an idea ?
EDIT : My cpu supports virtualization. http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=35562 the problem is I couldn't enable it. Setup screen doesn't have any option to make it! I'm currently using Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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My Acer Aspire 1810TZ laptop suspends fine but wakes up on any slight key-press. I would like to disable this behaviour. I read that it involves disabling something in the /proc/acpi/wakeup but SLPB does not seem to be listed at all.
root@1810TZ:/etc# cat /proc/acpi/wakeup
Device S-state Status Sysfs node
UHC0 S3 disabled pci:0000:00:1d.0
UHC1 S3 disabled pci:0000:00:1d.1
UHC2 S3 disabled pci:0000:00:1d.2
UHCR S3 disabled
EHC1 S3 disabled pci:0000:00:1d.7
UHC3 S3 disabled pci:0000:00:1a.0
UHC4 S3 disabled
UHC5 S3 disabled
EHC2 S3 disabled pci:0000:00:1a.7
EXP1 S4 disabled pci:0000:00:1c.0
PXSX S4 disabled pci:0000:01:00.0
EXP2 S4 disabled
PXSX S4 disabled
EXP3 S4 disabled
PXSX S4 disabled
EXP4 S4 disabled pci:0000:00:1c.3
PXSX S4 disabled pci:0000:02:00.0
EXP5 S4 disabled
PXSX S4 disabled
EXP6 S4 disabled
PXSX S4 disabled
However, the relevant bits seem to be detected from dmesg.
[ 0.357628] ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line)
[ 0.357749] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input0
[ 0.357754] ACPI: Power Button [PWRB]
[ 0.357817] input: Lid Switch as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input1
[ 0.359319] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
[ 0.359390] input: Sleep Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0E:00/input/input2
[ 0.359394] ACPI: Sleep Button [SLPB]
[ 0.359475] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input3
[ 0.359479] ACPI: Power Button [PWRF]
Not quite sure what to do next.
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I watched several videos on YouTube, went through a lot of overclocking forums and websites, but I am yet to find a "correct" answer to this question.
Some agree with the "pea method" where you apply a pea-sized glob onto the center of the CPU and then mount the heat sink over it and let the pressure of the sink spread the thermal grease evenly across the surface.
Others tend to gravitate towards the "business card method" of evenly spreading a thin layer of thermal compound across the CPU surface using a business card.
And then I read something about needing to apply more thermal compound to laptop CPUs because they don't have integrated heat spreaders.
I'm confused. I own a Acer 5542G notebook with an AMD Turion II X2 M500 CPU and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 GPU. This computer has been overheating a lot lately (even playing Minecraft for a few minutes would trigger a system shutdown) and I just recently took it apart and cleaned it.
There was no dust accumulating on the fan grill, so I removed the thermal compound, cleaned the CPU surface and applied some new compound. I used the "pea method". My CPU has a rectangular surface so I applied two little pea-sized dots.
After I did this, I ran CoreTemp and here's what I saw (idling temperatures):
That's a lot of heat! I'm guessing I screwed with my application of the thermal paste. I'm hoping anyone who owns an Aspire 5542G or a computer with an AMD Turion X2 M500 processor that has experienced the same problem could help me out here. Thank you.
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My laptop seems to have reach its lifespan. Its an Acer laptop so I guess that's normal. But I'd like to hear your opinions about this.
My laptop is only 2 years old. I haven't heard the fan spinning like crazy not until these past 5 months.
What I did:
- Hoping that its just the applications that I have installed that's consume the life of my laptop from the background. I used PC Decrapifier to uninstall some of the things that I don't need.
- Reformatted my computer but only the primary partition since my files are on the second partition.
- Bought a cooling pad.
None of these works.
I noticed the fan spins so hard when:
- I have a lot of browser tabs open.
- Full screen mode a flash video that I'm viewing online.
- Using VLC to watch encoded videos. There's this thing called minicoder http://sourceforge.net/projects/minicoder/ to reduce the size of videos without affecting much of the quality. I'm suspecting that it needs additional software(to make life easier for the hardware) even though the video is working fine in VLC. VLC consumes about 300,000K and above(as seen from task manager) while watching videos (.mkv).
The problem:
Laptop suddenly turns off when the fan spins like crazy for about 20 minutes. I'm always checking to see if its already too hot(using my fingers to feel the side of the laptop) but its not so I continued watching and then poof! computer turns off.
Laptop won't turn on immediately when I turn it on after it turning off by itself. The light for the power goes on but its turns off immediately. I have to wait for about 10-20 seconds before it boots up without problems.
So how do I go about this? Is this just normal for Acer laptops after about 2 years of heavy usage (8-12 hours a day)? My usage is heavy but I normally only have a text-editor(sublime) and browser open(chrome).
Here's what I got from HW monitor:
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