Acer Aspire 1710 Review - Page 50

Thanks DFScotland, Now this baby looks like it will fit the TANK!

Now if I can only get Targus to exchange the Model #CPT400 for the #TLE400 ... since there are the same price.

We will see.....

ANyone try PQI memory in this thing??

Here is a followup for those who were wanting to remove the NVidia GeForce FX Go card and run with the integrated Intel 865G graphics. From browsing the Acer spare parts sheet for the Aspire 1710, I saw the following part under video:

VIDEO BD.BRIDGE.INTEL865G VG.A1509.005

You would need to order this part most likely since this would contain your attachment for the LCD cable. This is also the board that probably ships on the Aspire 1710 models that did not ship with a GeForce FX Go add-on video card.

I know there were people wondering and one person who wanted to actually do it, so I hope this information is useful.

I just thought I would also share that I just installed the brand new Pansonic UJ-830 Super Multi Drive, the fastest mobile drive currently and it supports DVD-RAM, in the Acer Aspire 1710 with the following speeds:

3x DVD-RAM
8x DVD-R, DVD-RW
4x DVD-RW, DVD+RW
24x CD-R
10x CD-RW
8x DVD-ROM (READ)
24x CD-ROM (READ)

If you have the UJ-820 Super Multi model, you can easily replace the drive by removing the cover bezel (since they would use the same bezel faceplate anyway) and placing it on the new drive. If you don't have a Panasonic Super Multi Drive, you would need to order the cover bezel (faceplate) under the following part number:

42.A15V7.003 COVER.BEZEL.DVD-S'MULTI

This is great news though since it allows this drive to be easily upgraded in the future (to future Panasonic Super Multi drives) with the correct faceplate that matches the Aspire 1710.

Also, if you have the Pioneer DVD-Dual drives, there may be a new model of that as well. You should be able to use those faceplates as well as long as you are upgrading to a new Pioneer drive, etc.

42.A15V7.004 COVER.BEZEL.DVD-DUAL.PIO.

Hope this information is useful for those interested.

Sorry , i was not here for few days
You can get it here http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

Hey guys. Im back.... only this time with BAD NEWS and needing help. I drop it... HEY Im small and its SOOO big. Anyway.... now I get the endless cylce of boot, blue screen, boot, blue screen. Sometimes I can get as far as actually opening and starting to run diagnostics.... but it wont run for more than 2 mins including post and boot before it Blue Screens me to death and reboots.

How should I begin to troubleshoot this? Thanks! Oh and Merry ChristMass and Happy New Year.

Also.... if my HD did die and thats all.... has anyone put the new 400 Segate in this? Will it work? If Im gonna replace a drive Im gonna get te biggest I can get!!

Hey Guys

New ForceWare drivers 71.24 are out http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/

I will run & post some benchmarks after i wake up.

ZZ

Rachel, i rekon the best way to go about this is to first decide what the problem is, hard disk, memory whatever it doesnt matter. If its the HD its simple enough to replace as is memory, mightve only fried one channels worth which is reporting errors. If it were me i'd try and replace the hard disk with any old one lyin around that you know works and see if your still getting errors. If you do still get errors then you can rule out hard disk failure. Next i would try checking the memory, take 1 dimm out and run it with only 1 and then swap em round, see which one is faulty. I dropped mine once and it was reporting three quarters of the memory instead of all of it, it still booted but i'd screwed half of one stick. If its neither hard disk nor memory i'd get on to acer and see if their peeps can tell anything from the error code. If they cant help i'd RMA back where it came from and just foot the bill if you havent got the warranty extension. I would think its probably just the hard disk. As for the seagate, i tried one a couple of days ago and its fine in the 171X.

Cheeeers,
Dave

1710 graphics card upgrade

I have a 1710 and looking into upgrading the graphics card to the 128MB GeForce FX Go 5700. What I understand this can easly be done, is this correct? I thought I read a post about a difference in motherboards so I got concerned. Didn't want to spend the money, then be out of luck.
How difficult is the swap?
What I found, this is the part number...can someone confirm this is correct.
Any idea in cost in the U.S.?
Thanks

yeah mate, i've just upgraded my 1711sci up to the nvidia geforce 5700 128mb solution and unfortunately they dont come cheap. The graphics card itself costs £240 which is $460 but you've also got to consider that you need special screws to mount the thing as well which arent cheap either, £20 or $38. Also, they are on backorder and seem to be pretty hard to come by, it took me 2 months of endless calls to track mine down. I've actually done the upgrade myself and it works fine, but you also have to upgrade the bios and there is also a part you have to remove from the laptop, the vga bridge, where the lcd cable plugs in to a small daughterboard. Theres no difference in the way they attach to different motherboards, theyre all the same, so just get the part and it will fit. To be honest, with hindsight i wouldnt do it again, its too expensive and its not the easiest of things to do and you also void any warranty that you have on your machine. If you wanted a laptop with that sort of graphical performance you shoulda bought one with a powerful gfx card already, its not worth the hassle trying the upgrade route

that benchmarks on 71.24 sux

the 71.24 drivers were intended for only the 6 series and nothing else.

Hm

After 2 days i make them work with Doom3 , i must customize NV4_DISP.INFO , in the game was F.U. refresh rate

Now is @llright

PCMark04 4331 @ default o'c on 71.24 .

Bluetooth card supplier?

After two months of hunting I was finally able to find a place that sold this computer, had it in stock, and accepted purchase orders. All the review information in this thread was extremely helpful and let me know exactly what I was getting before it came. I bought it purely for its 17" normal aspect screen ratio LCD. I have bad eyes and need the larger monitor. There is lots to dislike about it, but the tradeoffs were required. If only someone made a 17" normal aspect screen laptop that weighed 8 lbs....

After reading the posts here I am interested in adding the bluetooth mini-pci card. However I cannot find a supplier. Can anyone point me to a company that sells the bluetooth card and antenna? Thanks to DWStrickland for posting the part numbers. Unfortunately the Acer folks I called don't recognize the part numbers.

Ya fix it yet? I think it's most likely the memory got jarred out of place - and
if you powered it on that way, possibly fried some. BTW on this beast the
bottom cover is literally pressing on the memory sticks. I had to remove
the heat spreader bails on my new memory before I could get to cover
back on. So if it hit on the bottom, the memory is probably unhappy.

Suggest you pull the bottom panel AND THE BATTERY. Then remove and
reseat the memory. Obviously the power should be disconnected when you
do this.

If that doesn't work pull one of the sticks and try again, then swap them
and try again. From my testing it doesn't matter which slot they're in -
the system works fine with a single stick in either slot.

If you've never seated memory before you might want to get someone who
has to help.

If in doubt Microsoft has a standalone memory diagnostic utility that you
can burn to a CD and boot into. I don't remember exactly where it is -
took me while to find it on their site. If you can't find it post a message
and I'll hunt it down again.

If it doesn't seem to be memory-related, I'd reseat the CPU. Again if you've
never done it before get some help. Be careful removing the CPU cooler -
twice now when I've pulled mine it's yanked the CPU right out of the socket.

If that doesn't work, run some nondestructive disk diagnostics. I believe
Norton Utilities can do that. Any good disk/partition s/w can do destructive
testing. That will check out the disk thoroughly.

If the disk is okay ... you're probably screwed. Try a reinstall anyway.

If none of these work...send it to service. (-: See my earlier post about
out-of-warranty service - it's something like $440 flat rate, which covers
up to three 'major components'. Extended no-fault warranty is a Good Thing.

Good luck.

- Eric

Why the hell did they discontinue this series? I got lucky enough to get the last refurb off newegg and no dead pixels (knock on wood). I stuck in a Seagate 400G HD which I bought at CompUSA for $200 during the Chrismas sale. I just bought 2G desktop memory for this thing. And the 5700 w128M plays hl2 rather well, in fact I can't even notice the difference when playing on my 8790 with an ati9700 256M. If there is any perf difference, I certainly can't feel it.

If I hear that they discontinued due to lack of market again, I'm gonna scream. Everyone I show this thing to, they are envious. And I get remarks like "Where did you get a 400G HD for a laptop?" Acer needed to put in big bold letters at the top of their ads "DESKTOP COMPONENTS".

Are there any other laptop companies producing or going to produce a laptop to use desktop components. As far as bang for the buck goes,standard sized RAM beats SODIMM in price. That 400G hd cost as much as those new 100G laptop HDs. Am I missing something here that others know about?

The only drawback I see to this thing is the weight. As far as the lan party factor, this thing is great. And bringing you laptop to your buds and ripping his DVD collection is much better with 400G under the hood. Then there is the work factor. It holds all of Oracle quite nicely.

I really hope that Acer realizes the error in their ways, or some other manufacture tries to pick up this ball.

yeh damn acer and their inconsiderate ways. Still, i got mine so i'm happy

Wireless-g Broadband Router

I Purchased this:

Linksys Wireless-B Router
2.4GHZ/802.11b (Model #W11S4PC11)

and I am not sure how to get it working with the TANK!

Do I have to do something, add a program, or turn something on to get the TANK to use its Wireless network?

Any Help/Steps to get this working would be great!

the router should have come with a cd. Install it on your central computer (the computer where your DSL/Broadband router is plugged in) and The 1712 should recognize it.