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8930g issues please help

post #1 of 23
10/2/10 at 4:06pm
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heya peeps

i have an acer 8930g its a pukka machine but my hard drive let go about 6 weeks ago i brought a new drive the same as the one that was in it i had a local computer shop install vista onto the comp but since then it always says there is no battery installed but the battery shows up in device manager i contacted acer and they are saying it is because of a software issues and want another 120 quid to reshadow the drive has anyone had an issue like this before? can anybody shed some lite id be so greatful

p.s have had the battery tested in another 8930 and worked perfect so im well confused
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post #2 of 23
10/2/10 at 4:53pm
Did you have all Acer apps installed? All drivers? Vista up to date?

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post #3 of 23
10/3/10 at 6:31am
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heya jus to let u no vista is upto date with latest sp and all drivers taken from acer site re installed vista twice but still no luck
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post #4 of 23
10/3/10 at 6:46am
What about Acer ePower Management App - got it installed? Did you check in device manager and set computer properties to ACPI?

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post #5 of 23
10/3/10 at 8:06am
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heya how do i set computer properties to acpi the battery shows up in device manager and the battery light on the front of the machine somtimes flashes to say battery charging but it still dont work !!!
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post #6 of 23
10/3/10 at 8:24am
Device Manager -> Computer -> you should see an entry here for ACPI, if not add it.

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post #7 of 23
10/3/10 at 10:30am
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i have checked it is saying acpi x86 based pc and it also say that a acpi mothod controled battery is installed
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post #8 of 23
10/3/10 at 12:38pm
What about the Acer ePower Management?

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post #9 of 23
10/3/10 at 1:03pm
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epower battery managment says there is no battery
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post #10 of 23
10/3/10 at 1:06pm
Now we get somewhere

I would suggest that you try removing and re-seat the followings:

- keyboard
- CMOS battery.

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post #11 of 23
10/3/10 at 1:22pm
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ok little confusedas to why reseating the keyboard would help and i was told by the computer shop that it is not good to remove the cmos battery?
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post #12 of 23
10/3/10 at 1:29pm
Wild guesses /tricks to try out. ACER (with Vista) is notorious for being out of whack when re-installing OS anew where certain drivers are not found.

Some of the threads here in the Section mentioning re-seating the keyboard could have solved the issue with battery not being recognized. CMOS re-seating is a bit extravagant but it is always worth a shot when everything fails.

Any better reasons other than "not good" from that computer shop?

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post #13 of 23
10/3/10 at 1:36pm
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the fella said it can cause thing to not function properl like the touch panel and fingerprint reader not sure if he was being straight with me he had the machine for 4 days and could not get it to recognise the battery
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post #14 of 23
10/3/10 at 1:46pm
I personally never heard, nor experiencing, touch panel and fingerprint reader issue when replacing CMOS battery.

Mind you, it takes some work to get to the CMOS battery

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post #15 of 23
10/3/10 at 2:01pm
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ok will try this 2night n post a reply 2moz cheers mate
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post #16 of 23
10/3/10 at 2:30pm
Good luck Smangle.

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post #17 of 23
10/3/10 at 6:33pm
it seems in our service manuals on main page there is only a 8930 and an 8930q no G
http://tim.id.au/laptops/acer/aspire%208930.pdf
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post #18 of 23
10/4/10 at 9:01am
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Originally Posted by saugen48 View Post
it seems in our service manuals on main page there is only a 8930 and an 8930q no G
http://tim.id.au/laptops/acer/aspire%208930.pdf
When I bought my 8930 almost 2 years ago, it was written somewhere 8930G (do not remember where), but in the instruction manual, and on the comp. it is just listed as 8930. So, 8930G or 8930 = same thing I suppose.
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post #19 of 23
10/17/10 at 6:53am
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still no go

i have tried the things on this thread and still have not had any luck please somebody must have an idea how to sort this or to be able to use pq service partition to restore to factory

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post #20 of 23
10/17/10 at 7:38am
Let's go back one step. Your battery was being tested out and worked on another 8930 - so how about make a snap shot of that other system, install it and tweak it afterward with your personal settings?

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