Posts by alan.jenney

Sadly, it seems I am not eligible, even with lots of family in the USA.

Quote: Originally Posted by spooky75 Any progress here?.. :-) Acer eventually suggested that they could not fix the problem and offered a replacement in the form of a different high-spec model with a...

Unfortunately, Acer do not publish information about what each BIOS revision fixes. Speculative upgrading is risky, but I already tried a few different BIOS updates over time. One of them toasted the machine and I got a replacement...

NHC has been giving more consistent results than SpeedFan. I'm more or less convinced that there is some issue with the logic in the ACPI control software or the embedded controller on the mainboard about certain temperature...

I don't have experience of getting into the mess that you've achieved, but the following may very well be what is going on from what you write in your first paragraph about your disc working fine in another machine: In the Acer BIOS...

I don't have experience of that particular model, Acer Aspire 9410, but "ease of install" depends on whether the space is available through one of the user accessible ports on the base of the unit. The battery, memory and...

If a laptop does not include Bluetooth, often a manufacturer would put a blanking plate instead of a switch. In contrast, nearly all the Acer laptops come with a physical momentary action switch whether a module is installed or not. If...

Incidentally, the NHC software shows that there are a number of thermal zones in the laptop. Some are used for determining the fan speed. In my case, what are visible are... CPU0 and CPU1 - from the intel cores, TZ00, TZ01, TZVR and...

Spooky75. I'll cross my fingers and hope that mine behaves itself using hibernate. To get the temperature up high enough, I do the following: o Set the processor to "Maximum" in the Acer ePower utility if you are running...

The immediate answer is no. I'm using hibernate as the second-best way of knocking off the machine to save power without restarting it. It's not as speedy as standby, but it's a workaround for the time being. As for the problem...