ACERS can work this way for keyboard removal...
1) Check behind the laptop hinge covers for a small grub screw. This should be on the hinge cover itself. If one is present , take it out (small philips screwdriver is vtal for this and...
Generally you cannot control a GPU fan without a 3rd party peice of hardware.. If the graphics are not glitching, causing the syatem to crash etc don't worry... A fan failure on a GPU generally will cause some wierd graphical glitch...
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However one morning while my gf had the machine on her lap lying in bed the screen went black, it wasn't plugged in so I didn't panic I thought the battery was probably very low.
Not a good thing to with a...
About £95 to repair that... And it is not worth attempting it yourself unless you are competent at soldering - 1 wrong move and you ruin the motherboard.... Don't forget, that the price if done by a competent individual in a shop will...
Give the laptop a good internal clean (strip it down) esp the heatfins and heatpipe assembly and round the CPU and GPU.. It looks like that is overheating when under stress... Also update your drivers for thre chipset and video if you...
Remove the heatsink and fan assembly and get it blown through with some 'canned' air... Also brush it out with a clean dry paintbrush... This is common on a lot of laptops... Also some will trap a 'carpet' of dust within the heatpipe/fin...
