I have an Acer Aspire 5630 and the USB ports do not go off when Windows is shutdown, hibernating or when it goes into slleep (standby) mode. They only go off when I disconnect the AC power. I just bought an external USB drive as my internal is almost full, but I don't want to have the external drive on 24/7. Disconnecting the drive is a bit inconvenient as I use the laptop with an external display and keyboard and keep the laptop itself hidden behind my desk. I updated the BIOS to Ver. 3.60, but I don't see settings in the BIOS for USB ports. Can these ports be turn off programatically. Do I need a special Acer Application or drivers to turn off the USB ports? I removed all the Acer Management bloatware that came with the laptop. Are there any jumpers inside the laptop that need to be changed? Any Suggestions?

Thanks in advance..

So, long story short I have a very sick Acer Aspire 5672 in my possession. Attached is an image of what is wrong. What I would like is for someone to tell me what ICs I need to pick up to replace the asploded ones.

If someone could crack theirs own, and obtain the identification information on the tops of these that would be amazing! Obviously, I can't because two (Blue and White) and of the tops are irreparably damaged, and the third (Red) is mildly obscured making the identification information ambiguous. I could probably work on the red one for longer and get it, so the real priorities are the blue and white ones.

Note on picture: It is from pre-exploding, but I assure you, they have definitely seen better days.

This is very much appreciated!

Hiya,

I have a short quesion, I have had my Acer since new (about 2 years), not having any problems with it whatsoever, until recently, when it decided that upon displaying dark (black, grey etc) background it will intermittently flash white vertical lines across the screen.

Since it is out of warranty I have had it looked up by a repair company, which have said it was the screen connection cables that were at fault. That helped the problem for about a month, after which it reappered.

I have repeated the process then - the company replaced the connections, but this time it didn't help at all.

As this is happeneing randomly I am now asking, what could be the casue of such a fault,, if anyone has any idea. If there are any questions I will respond to the best of my knowledge.

I have made a short video that shows exactly what happens
http://cyberx2002.co.uk/VIDEO0002.mp4
Cheers for any help.

I did a bad thing and reformatted my acer travelmate 5720, deleting the factory partition in the process. luckily, i had saved the data from a previous issue with the computer (as posted here http://www.notebookforums.com/thread228971.html), so i have the data saved on an external HD in a folder called 'acerdata'.

is there any way that i can restore the partition with this data on it so that i can restore the computer to factory settings using the ALT+F10 method? having reformatted it using a windows CD, tons of the hardware drivers are missing etc so I regret that i didn't remember that acer had the built in restore...

Hi all,

I just bought and ACER 5532. It has 3GB of ram, a 1.6GHz AMD Athlon 64, and a HTI Radeon HT3200 graphics card. I am having and issue watching HULU on this thing. It plays pretty smooth when you have it in the small window, but anytime you go full screen it just jerks and stops My old gateway that only has 1.5 GB of ram with the same connection and such pays smooth in both the small window and full screen. The ACER has the full 16:9 view. Is there something the graphics cards is doing to make this happen? Is there anything I can adjust?

BTW the old gateway is xp and the new acer is 7.

Thanks for the help in advance.

Kevin

Hello!

I have a new Aspire 8935G with Realtek audio (AL889, if I read it well) and I'm not able to use digital output.

I tried using a common stereo jack to RCA cable, using just the left (black) RCA to plug into the digital COAX input of my ampilfier, but nothing came from the speakers.

Do you know how to setup the digital output of the Aspire?

Thanks a lot!!

Hi All
I've acquired my daughters old acer extensa 5620 but the motherboard is apparently kaput. I can't find a replacement anywhere, so, does know anyone of a different model that will fit this chassis?
Any advise gratefully recieved.

Hi, i have a acer laptop that did have vista on, i have upgraded this recently to windows 7, i have just today bought a new webcam which it says is windows 7 ready plus there are no drivers needed, i can just plug it in and it will work.

sounds nice and easy =]

well, i have plugged it in and it seems to be installing, finds the driver etc, then it says cannot install, then when i go into the device manager and click into the device it sayd access denied, i have tried alsorts to fix it, turned uac off etc and still does same thing, tried in safe mode, i just cannot do it.

has anyone got any idea please, id be very greatful

thanks

james

Hi,

I have a brand new Acer Aspire 5536 Notebook. It came pre-shipped with Vista which I did not want.

So I tried a fresh install of Win7 - formatted drive etc,. Machine takes 5+ mins to boot so I put this down to a compatibility issue and tried XP. However I have the same problem, fresh install with only updates installed and it takes forever to boot (even longer than Win7).

Once booted performance is ok (in Win7 it was near perfect). Any ideas, I am beginning to think it is defective.

Thanks in advance,

Rob.

HI All,

I need "Acer Empowering Technology for windows 7 x64 extensa 5630" for my laptop.

If any body have the software plz provide link.

Thanks in Advance.
Madhu

I haven't been able to locate a Windows 7 x64 version of Acer eRecovery. Any ideas ?

I can get to the basic operating system required for restoring user backup files by inserting the Restore CD in the CDROM. But if I select Restore from the eRecovery menu, after selecting the desired restore file the PC reboots into normal startup mode instead of rebooting into basic operating system for the Restore function.

Hi

I have installed Windows 7 on my laptop Acer Aspire 1660. The problem is that I dont have valid drivers for W7 for my video and sound....

I tried to install the drivers avalaible in Acer webpage. But it displays error

How I can solve it?

Windows 7 tells me to get a better driver from manufacturer, but I don't know who that is for the IDE controller.

Any ideas what to use here ?

Help always appreciated.

Have the same problem trying to figure out what to throw out at home. :scratch:

It was easy to get rid of the Acer games--most of those are trial versions anyway.

But what about these?

Acer Arcade Deluxe - Acer games have been deleted, keep the arcade for videos, music, pictures, or let WMP, Media Center handle these?

MS Office - trialware At some point I may buy MS Office. Do I need these as placeholders?
Activation Assistant
Excel 2007
One Note 2007
PowerPoint 2007
Word 2007 - haven't used, but have some old Word docs may need to open. M$ replaced Word with "Works Word Processor" in MS Works.

MS Office Live Add-in
Office Live Add-in help
Office Live Add-in workplace

Windows Defender - replaced by MSE--still needed?

Vista "My Stationary" - have one letterhead template created from MS Works. rest probably won't get used.

NTI Backup Now 5 - think these two were freebies from Acer "partners" for registering, and solicit you to buy the "full" version
NTI Media Maker 8

Software Informer - must've downloaded this, but don't know if it's reliable, and if it's a good idea to let third-party software update by itself.

EarthLink TotalAccess - must've been a reason this wasn't deleted before, but I can't remember what it is!

MediaRECOVER Lite - another Acer partner freebie in crippled form with prompts to "upgrade"

MS Office 2003 PowerPoint Viewer - will this even work if PowerPoint 2007 trialware is deleted?

Personal Photo Manager Deluxe - think this is another Acer partners freebie. Redundant with a couple of MS photo organizers and Picasa. Keep anyway?

Help: I got the Acer Ferrari One 200 2 days ago (win7 64bit home premium). I noticed it has a hibernation problem. It goes to sleep for no reason. Very annoying. I tried tweaking ALL the power settings but still it will go to sleep for no reason. Hibernation on this laptop is erratic. I emailed Acer about this and still waiting for a reply. Bummer!

I also have a compaq cq40 with almost thesame specs with the Acer Ferrari One. turion x2, ati 780g chipset. My Compaq running win7 64bit Ultimate RC does not have hibernating issues. This really baffles me. Is this a windows 7 bug? or am I having hardware issues? Any help is highly appreciated. tnx