Acer Aspire 1710 Review - Page 59

Um, USB2 is 480Mb/s on the wire. That doesn't count overhead, O/S
latency, etc., etc. USB drivers typically reserve 10% of the bandwidth
for overhead. If you have audio devices on your USB bus a lot more could
be reserved.

- Eric

"UPS" stands for "Uninterrupible power supply". Generally it's a big battery,
with electonics that convert battery power into output power. The battery
output is (relatively) stable, independent of the input power. The input
power just charges the battery.

Flaky power can indeed cause all sorts of bizarre problems - including
premature death.

- Eric

Just a couple comments. The inverter board (a little skinny thing) is mounted
right at the bottom of the lid. I've noticed mine runs uncomfortably hot
to the touch all the time. Would you folks check yours? Fold the lid
part way shut and touch the bottom piece on the lid assembly. Mine
consistently runs quite a lot hotter (by touch) than the CPU ever does.

Most failures in electronic parts are due to thermal stress - heating it up,
cooling it down. The greater the temperature range and the more times
you cylce it up and down the sooner the part will fail.

So I tend to leave my stuff on all the time, to minimize thermal cycles. This
may prolong the life of the inverter.

I also have to wonder about a design that 'normally' runs a part that hot,
with no cooling provision.

It doesn't surprise me that they fry.

- Eric

Oh boy, get rid of the thermal pad.

The contact between the heat sink and the CPU is critical for good cooling.
The "grease" you use makes a BIG difference.

The best one to use is Artic Silver (not any other "silver" product - many
of them do NOT contain sufficent silver).

Yes, you do. You need to install the drivers for these from the Acer site.
I don't remember exactly where I got them (I keep copies on my hd).
If you can't find them post again and I'll dig them up.

- Eric

I already had ordered the Artic Silver 5 (classified as the best). I'm just waiting for it to arrive.

As for the green bars question, anyone knows anything?

Yes, my one gets very hot too. I burn my finger when I press it against the screw (metal being a much better heat conductor than the plastic).

Xis,

Try loading the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. AC'97 Sound System Software (Ver. A3.53) http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers...k/as_1710.html - I think it worked for me.

Regards

One questions guys: Is the CPU in this a socket 478?

Yes, my inverter board also gets very hot. I noticed that from the first day I got my 1714.
And I agree that the thermal cycles can reduce a lot the life expectancy of the part, so I have it on all the time.

But it's not only the thermal cycles. Whenever you turn on your machine, for a few microsecs very strong electric current ( some tenths of Ampere) pass through your machine. That also reduces the life expectancy of the machine, but that is a common rule for every electrical device.

Also the light detection that I mentioned in previous post, is the AUTO DIM. I have it always disabled.

Yes, the Acer Aspire 1710 uses Socket 478 processors.

[Also the light detection that I mentioned in previous post, is the AUTO DIM. I have it always disabled.[/quote]

This Light setting in the BIOS everyone keeps mentioning only deals with the machine if it is on battery. In other words, if you are plugged in and pull the cord, then the machine will dim the LCD with this option to YES; otherwise, it will keep it on full brightness even on battery power if set to NO.

Therefore, if you want to extend battery life slightly and don't mind the slighly reduced brightness of the LCD, then you should leave this at the default setting: YES.

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FYI

- Eric

Thanks for the information. My inverter board gets also very hot. Do you know of any way to reduce the temperature in that tricky part? I do not want to replace the inverter again in the next months.

Looks like my screen's going the same way as others ....
Getting darker at the top and getting a buzzing from just below the screen

Overheating Problems

Hello guys, I'v read on this forum more than a few posts saying that they had some problems with the Acer Aspire 1712 model laptop having some sort of heating problem.
I am one of the many that will join the club. My problem is not monitor related like most but my computer overheats for some strange reason...

My problem is the following: my Aspire 1710 (says so on the PC but it should be a 1712) powers off at randomn times during the use of any gaming software.

After some time I figured that it could be a heating problem since the computer powers off instead of rebooting like it it had encountered a blue screen of death.
In my case no blue screen or any other "abnormalities" come up, it just turns off.

I have downloaded SpeedFan, a simple program that detects heat in the HDD and CPU (i think... it says TEMP 1 instead of CPU temp) zone.
My CPU temp when the computer is at rest is of 60 C but it rises to 70 C when I start to open web brousing software and other programs such as eMule.
If I try to play any game, after some 10 or 20 min the temperature rises to around 80C. If I keep playing the computer will eventually power off.

All of the fans seem to work fine and they are rid of any major dust formations. (there is still a little bit of dust, but it's only small small pieces on the fan blades)

It is very strange because this problem just happened from one day to the other. The only thing that I have done to my pc was connecting to windows update and downloading some security updates.
The day after that it started to have these problems.

I was wondering if anybody has had anything similar happen and if there was anything you guys could think of that would cause this problem.

By the way, can somebody post their "normal" temperatures for this laptop, at "rest" (without basically doing anything with the pc) and "under stress" (using games or other programs that have igh usage of the cpu) please!

Thanks!

by the way... my GPU at rest is at 54C -55C which is 10 degrees over the ones that I have seen posted here...

Just dig it up , i post more than enough about my temp's.

ZZTOP77 u posted on page 70 the following:

"Temp on CPU after few h using 36-42C
Temp on HDD 40-55C ,,,,, after few gigs file transfer up to 61C
Temp on GPU 45-50C ,,,,, after heavy gaming up to 75C"

are these the temps you normally get? Also, did you do some modifications to your computer, such as using Artic Silver thermal paste?

Just for compairesons can you tell me your base specs (CPU, ram, etc) please.


BTW I have a Pentium 4, 3.4 Ghz, 1 Gb of Ram, 120 Gb HDD, Geforce 5700 128mb ram.

Probably my fan is broken somehow... even if it runs, because i get CPU temps that are much higher (60-70C when after a few hours of doing nearly nothing).

Heh

See ? dig some more

I did use Cooler master kit . I pull of my CPU by accident within clean up the dust & then i was running from store to store & it was the best what i find in that time , if they have , i will get Artic silver 5

Temp :
web browsing : CPU 37 - 41C , HDD 50-54C , GPU 46-49 C
Gaming , hard using : CPU up to 54C ( never saw over 55C ) , HDD up to 56C ( never saw over 59C ) GPU up to 76C ( never saw over 80C )

Just for compairesons can you tell me your base specs (CPU, ram, etc) please.

Maybe you run a lot red lights too, if you can't see red text
Sorry brother for that loud , but i can't help my self

BTW it looks like you have 1714 , not 1712 , you got faster CPU ( & warmer ) & later DVD±RW & that's it
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add some pic
That pic is @ 30sec. updates ,(on new HDD) its about 11H running ,i did web browsing ,gaming ,files transfer ,all kinds bench tests .Its all in one
I did change my HDD last week , so my HDD temp raise a bit , but new HDD is faster & thats why i got it