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post #1261 of 1526
5/5/05 at 1:19pm
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Originally Posted by Bazzio
What's your BIOS firmware version?
The latest version 3A25. Your suspision on the BIOS may be right because the same memory modules installed on a desktop with ASUS motherboard using Intel 865x chipsets runs at full speed. I hope that it is just a BIOS issues and also hope that Acer to fix it soon
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post #1262 of 1526
5/6/05 at 3:40pm
hi jorg, the largest capacity graphics memory the 1710 series can take is the geforce 5700 128mb. No other cards for the 1710 series apart from the smaller 64mb version have been or will ever be made for this machine seeing as it is now discontinued. No other fit in this machine so you'll have to live with the 128
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post #1263 of 1526
5/7/05 at 6:20am

1711 Service manual

Hi all!

I'm (almost happy owner of 1711 SCI, having several problems previously described in this great topic, such as replaced (so far once) %$$% inverter or overheating CPU.. After getting finnaly to the last page, I decided to do something good to my soon-to-be-out-of-warranty lappy. But to do so I need one more thing... DWS, could you please mail me your url to 1711 service manual (meehaw@poczta.onet.pl)? After trying to pull out keybord I'm getting desperate

BTW, the inverter problem is probably something more than it may seem from previous posts... I bougth my lappy in USA, hovewer I live in Poland and my inverter was replaced here... And after a month the blinking started again... It was in february and after one week of fear the problem naver happened again , but I still live in fear . I guess that inverters all over the world MAY have that problem.. But IMHO it's because of high temperature (at least im mine) - so I believe in the end it IS some kind of tech mistake...
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post #1264 of 1526
5/7/05 at 12:41pm
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Originally Posted by Mike_D
Hi all!

I'm (almost happy owner of 1711 SCI, having several problems previously described in this great topic, such as replaced (so far once) %$$% inverter or overheating CPU.. After getting finnaly to the last page, I decided to do something good to my soon-to-be-out-of-warranty lappy. But to do so I need one more thing... DWS, could you please mail me your url to 1711 service manual (meehaw@poczta.onet.pl)? After trying to pull out keybord I'm getting desperate

BTW, the inverter problem is probably something more than it may seem from previous posts... I bougth my lappy in USA, hovewer I live in Poland and my inverter was replaced here... And after a month the blinking started again... It was in february and after one week of fear the problem naver happened again , but I still live in fear . I guess that inverters all over the world MAY have that problem.. But IMHO it's because of high temperature (at least im mine) - so I believe in the end it IS some kind of tech mistake...

Mike, look through the topic. There's a link somewhere to a very detailed manual.... Don't have the manual anymore cause it stood on my old HD. Your problem is a world wide and is more a design mistake as a technical mistake. The 1700 serie was taken out of production after being there for only about a year, so that says enough i think....
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post #1265 of 1526
5/8/05 at 5:11am
a friend of mine send me the panasonic uj-840 from japan, first of all I can't use the same bezel of my dvd drive, second, but not the last..... the notebook don't recognize the drive uj-840!!!!!
in italy we say..... VAFFANCULO!!!!
some other have the same problem?
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post #1266 of 1526
5/9/05 at 5:52am
how much are the batteries for the acer
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post #1267 of 1526
5/10/05 at 3:57am

Still no manual...

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Mike, look through the topic. There's a link somewhere to a very detailed manual.... Don't have the manual anymore cause it stood on my old HD. Your problem is a world wide and is more a design mistake as a technical mistake. The 1700 serie was taken out of production after being there for only about a year, so that says enough i think....

There are two links, but first one is for user manual (not so useful with this particular problem) and the second one is for only Chapter 6 (FRU), and I need whole manual .


And taking 17xx out of production might be solution for Acer, but not for me.. I really like this machine, and I would like it to serve me a bit longer...

BTW, I checked my CPU temp - and it's ~60 degrees after 5 minutes of idle. WTF? Hope this is only lack of thermal paste - I THINK I am able to put some on CPU without actually destroying something... (any hints would be welcome ).
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post #1268 of 1526
5/10/05 at 8:03am
Ok, take care with pulling off the CPU cooler. Be sure to lift it off straight and gently. Cause in the 2 times i did it, the cpu was still stuck on the cooler. My heart skipped a beat but, lucky me, the pins where not bend. And first read the manual on the Artic Silver site. http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_instructions.htm
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post #1269 of 1526
5/11/05 at 11:45pm
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Originally Posted by unic
I have the 1712 and just upgrade the memory with OCZ PC-3200 DDR400 Enhanced Latency 1GB (2x512MB) Dual Channel Kit CAS2 (OCZ4001024ELDC-K) but CPU-Z memory timing shows 166Mhz instead of 200Mhz and FSB ratio of 5:4 instead of 1:1. I know that there is previous post about this but I don't remember if there is any resolution. Anyone have DDR400 installed and can verify that if it is running at full speed. Thanks.

Steven
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post #1270 of 1526
5/12/05 at 9:36am

Heat...

Big THX, Bazzio. I yesterday did replace compound on CPU (it was some silicon-like, sticky white shit) with Arctic Silver V. For now there is no difference in temps, due their site I should see the effects by the next couple of days.

But I don't really believe that the compound itself can reduce temp from ~62 to ~45... What may be other reason for thin thing overheating so badly? Fans are working properly, I can hear it .
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post #1271 of 1526
5/12/05 at 11:46am
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Originally Posted by Mike_D
Big THX, Bazzio. I yesterday did replace compound on CPU (it was some silicon-like, sticky white shit) with Arctic Silver V. For now there is no difference in temps, due their site I should see the effects by the next couple of days.

But I don't really believe that the compound itself can reduce temp from ~62 to ~45... What may be other reason for thin thing overheating so badly? Fans are working properly, I can hear it .
A cpu-cooler replacement helped a bit, but the most temp. decrease i've got was by placing the notebook on two wooden beams. I've used a 2 cm thick beam on the back an a 1cm thick one on the front. That dropped my temps. about 10 °C. Another thing you can check is what type CPU you're using. Is it a Northwood or a Prescott. A Prescott got a higher working temp. than a Northwood. You can use CPU-Z for that, just google for a download link.
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post #1272 of 1526
5/13/05 at 10:11am

Opengl

Opengl Go5700128M Vs SoftquadroFx 1400

Go5700
Test0010 - MovingCamera - 4 View WireFrame, 60.594 (Sec.)
Test0020 - MovingCamera - 4 View SmoothShade, 52.516
Test0030 - MovingCamera - 1 View WireFrame, 17.062
Test0040 - MovingCamera - 1 View SmoothShade, 10.375
Test0100 - Extrude Faces, 60.563
Test0323 - Opacity Performance - Blended, 35.485




Softquadro FX1400
Test0010 - MovingCamera - 4 View WireFrame, 17.75
Test0020 - MovingCamera - 4 View SmoothShade, 9.922
Test0030 - MovingCamera - 1 View WireFrame, 16.797
Test0040 - MovingCamera - 1 View SmoothShade, 10.172
Test0100 - Extrude Faces, 36.984
Test0323 - Opacity Performance - Blended, 12.125

Maxx
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post #1273 of 1526
5/13/05 at 11:41am

Ram

Question about ram:

I've got 512 MB (2x256mb so-dimm) PC2700(166) memory with 533 mhz busspeed. CPU-Z gives a frequency of 106.4 mhz and a FSBRAM ratio of 5:4.
So my memory is working on 64% of its capacity?!? If i buy two PC3200(200) 512 mb sticks will my ratio than go to 1:1? Or will it go to another ratio, but wich one? As far as i know there isn't a way to change the ratio in the Acer BIOS.
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post #1274 of 1526
5/13/05 at 3:33pm
here is mine.
http://www.unicsoftware.com/Aspire1712/ddr400-1.jpg
http://www.unicsoftware.com/Aspire1712/ddr400-2.jpg
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post #1275 of 1526
5/13/05 at 4:04pm
What's your FSB speed? 133 mhz, i guess.
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post #1276 of 1526
5/13/05 at 10:52pm
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Originally Posted by Bazzio
What's your FSB speed? 133 mhz, i guess.
The FSB is 200 Mhz and hence the 5:4 ratio memory speed instead the expected 1:1 ratio.
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post #1277 of 1526
5/14/05 at 10:39am
Sorry my mistake You're right.
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post #1278 of 1526
5/17/05 at 4:27am

heatheatheat

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Originally Posted by Bazzio
A cpu-cooler replacement helped a bit, but the most temp. decrease i've got was by placing the notebook on two wooden beams. I've used a 2 cm thick beam on the back an a 1cm thick one on the front. That dropped my temps. about 10 °C. Another thing you can check is what type CPU you're using. Is it a Northwood or a Prescott. A Prescott got a higher working temp. than a Northwood. You can use CPU-Z for that, just google for a download link.

Hi.

I tried everything you mentioned... I have Northwood, I put the unit on 2 cm legs made from lego blocks , in cool room, on wooden table, with AS V - and I got 56 degrees . This really suxx, I don't know what else might be the problem.. I can't afford sending it to Acer right now (work..). Anyway, big THX for help, Bazzio !


BTW, Where is DWS with my manual ...?
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post #1279 of 1526
5/19/05 at 11:53pm
does anyone know a driver that will work well on my acer 1710 gfx5700 im still currently running the original windows driver please paste a link or web to download from thanks and is there any perfomance increase
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post #1280 of 1526
5/23/05 at 1:02am
FYI - I've been running the Hitachi 400GB /8MB drive in mine for more than a month now.
Works fine.

Every 10 minutes or so it has a faint, increasing sound like the drive is being accessed a lot.
Gets louder for about 4 seconds, then stops. A few minutes later, happens again.
You wouldn't notice it unless you were sitting there and the system was idle. Curious, but
not really annoying. It only gets about as loud as a normal drive access.

The drive is slightly noisier than the Seagate. I could never hear the Seagate, but the Hitachi
I can hear being accessed. About the same sound level you'd hear from a good desktop -
very little.

Haven't run any performance specs. Doesn't seem appreciably faster.

The thing that DID make a perceptible performance increase was changing to memory that
allows 1:1 timing.

- Eric
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