Questions tagged [acer-aspire]
Aspire is a line of personal computers made by Acer.
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Laptop only works after sticking in freezer, is there something inside it that I can replace?
I have an Acer Aspire V5, and about two months ago it wouldn't turn on. It did not overheat, there were no power surges, and it wasn't plugged in overnight. I turned it off and in the morning, the ...
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Acer Aspire 5250 won't boot from bootable USB
I took home my friend's Acer Aspire 5250 which currently has corrupted Windows 10. So, I thought of installing Windows XP (SP3) in it using a bootable USB. As of now, it doesn't pick the USB. I don't ...
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Laptop shuts down and reboot when loading system
I received an Acer laptop of a friend and I try to fix it, but I'm out of inspiration.
When the laptop boots and loads its OS (Windows 7) the laptop shuts down and reboots automatically, but doing ...
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How to fix horizontal line on my laptop screen?
I have an acer aspire one d257. I noticed a horizontal line on my laptop screen yesterday. The horizontal line changes color depending on the color of the screen. On a white background, it changes to ...
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Acer Aspire 5750 wifi option missing after Windows-7 SP1 update
I have an Acer Aspire 5750 laptop (32 bit). I updated the Service Pack (SP1) which I downloaded from the Microsoft website.
The SP1 (windows6.1-KB976932-X86.exe) was updated successfully but after ...
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Where are the BIOS password reset jumpers on a Acer Aspire 4810T?
I need to change the boot order on an old Acer Aspire 4410/4810T laptop that I have, but as soon as I hit F2 on startup it asks me for a BIOS password. I have no clue as to what the password is.
I ...
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Touchpad changes tap from click to hold, and right click menu freezes on screen, clears on restart
I have the following issue:
After continued usage of a windows 10 based Acer laptop, the touchpad behavior changes to "tap to hold left click" from "tap to left click". Additionally, as this happens, ...
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Keyboard backlight not working: Acer Aspire R13 R7-372T
I recently bought an Acer Aspire R13 R7-372T Laptop. I noticed that the keyboard backlight was never on. I tried the keyboard shortcut to increase the backlight brightness but to no avail. I tried ...
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2016 and Acer recovery details...no sticker, no DVD, tiny recovery partition =?
A friend of mine bought an Acer Aspire E 15, which came with Windows 10. What I was surprised to see it didn't come with was any sort of product key--no sticker on the bottom like I was used to with ...
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A and X keys not working all the time on Acer Aspire E laptop
So I've been having this annoying issue for a few days now.
I sometimes have to hold one of them, and they slowly get typed in the textbox in which i'm typing, and gradually get more cursive to the ...
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Fixing a found Acer desktop tower : power supply issue?
I found in the street the tower of an ACER desktop computer. Having some free time and willing to learn more on how to fix hardware issues, my plan is to repair it.
ACER-Aspire-X3810
when powering ...
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Is my internal hard drive dead?
I have a 500GB seagate internal hard drive in my Acer Aspire V 15 Nitro. Without dropping the laptop or anything, just letting it to sleep mode overnight, I open it to find no bootable device error. I ...
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Windows 10 wifi not turning on Acer Aspire laptop
This is fresh Windows 10 on Acer Aspire v3-571g.
After turning wifi on in settings (the upper part of the screenshot) Windows still shows that wifi is off (the bottom right corner). Clicking on Show ...
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windows 8.1 high disk usage
My laptop an Acer Aspire E1-571 has always run on 100% disk usage as far as I can remember, the laptop being about 3 years old. I have just run a disk check with CrystalDiskMark
I don't really know ...
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How to enable mic input only in headphone
I am making a project in which I need to give instructions to my program and the program will perform some output as per my instructions.
Everything is working fine as I am able to give commands via ...
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How do I fix windows error 0xc000021a
My PC displays the error 0xc000021a when booting then restarts to recovery mode.
I could not find any of my restore points so I booted into safe mode and disable signature drivers but it still ...
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Where can I find Windows 7 drivers for this laptop?
I recently bought a laptop, Acer Aspire E5-575G 77ze http://www.acer.com/ac/ro/RO/content/model/NX.GDWEX.055
(http://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/NX.GHGAA.002 I can't find the English site)
My ...
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Laptop repeatedly shows BSOD, likely due to faulty wireless network adapter. What are my options?
Apologies for the long post but I am trying to be thorough.
I have an Acer Aspire V15 Nitro (Model: Aspire VN7-591G) laptop that I bought on November 2015. It came with Windows 8, which I immediately ...
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Set up two external monitors on my laptop (aspire v3)
Hi everyone i am going to buy two fullHD monitors and i would like to plug them into my laptop but i am not sure if this is possible.
To be specific i have an Acer Aspire V3-572G-76UP that came with:
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Acer Laptop touchpad disable right-click on touchpad (Windows 10)
The Acer aspire laptop has the ridiculous idea that the right half of the touchpad should be a right-click when two fingers does the same thing. Really, UI developers? At least give me a clear way ...
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Acer Aspire V3-772G with WIN10 default boot device missing
my 2 years old, out of warranty, Acer Aspire V3-772G with WIN10 is giving me a message ‘default boot device missing’.
I tried to take out the battery for a few seconds, take out the HDD and gently ...
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How to rename a UEFI boot entry?
I have some trouble with renaming the default UEFI boot manager entry on my acer laptop. When I bought the laptop there was a weird Linux distribution installed on it called "Linpus lite". I then ...
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DDr3 or DDR3L for Acer Aspire 5745G
I have an Acer Aspire 5745 G. I am planning to upgrade the RAM from 4 GB to 8 GB.
Specs:
Acer Aspire 5745G 2010 model.
Core i5 430M processor, Acer ZR7 mobo, Intel HM55
Current working RAM: 2*2GB ...
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Unable to detect bluetooth devices with windows 8.1 laptop using bluetoothview
I am using a tool called bluetoothview (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/bluetooth_viewer.html) on my Acer Aspire VN7-791 Laptop with Intel Wireless Bluetooth Adapter under Microsoft Windows 8.1 (x64) ...
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Can I install DDR3L memory into Acer Aspire V3-571G?
I am looking forward to improve my Acer Aspire V3-571G a bit. It currently runs 2 x 4Gb 1600 Mhz DDR3 modules, but I wish to install 2x8Gb modules.
I found two DDR3L low-voltage 1600Mhz chips, but I ...
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Bluetooth device missing
Today I tried using my bluetooth and realized it was missing.
I went to my "Devices Manager" and it wasn't showing any Bluetooth devices.
However, following the instrucions in this question, I ...
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Acer ES1-411 stuck on boot screen - Windows 10
I have an Acer ES1-411, of a customer, with faulty HDD. I swiped old HDD with a newly bought one, but the Windows installation gets stuck on the boot screen, after first restart. I used a bootable ...
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Windows 10 Automatic zoom
Today, when I turned on my laptop, after a few minutes Windows automatically start zooming in and out. For example, when I scroll some windows like explorer, Chrome or any other application it starts ...
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Will resetting Windows 10 also reset drivers for touchpad and keyboard?
If we reset the laptop, will it get back to the original touchpad and keyboard driver settings?
What happened is that, when I turned off the touchpad settings, the touchpad driver was automatically ...
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Acer Aspire 4736Z BIOS Bricked (failed flash bios update)
So as the title says, I bricked my laptop. I'm not that good at explaining but let me try. I reformatted my laptop and installed the drivers given by the acer support driver and manual site and ...
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Aspire E5-571G-55ST RAM slots issue
I have Aspire E5-571G-55ST laptop and tools like CPU-Z and Speccy show that I have 2/4 slots used... Even Windows Task Manager shows that I'm only using 2/4 slots... But when I opened up the laptop to ...
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Does Windows 10 slows Acer Aspire E5-411-C3K3 notebooks?
So I have an Acer Aspire E5 notebook and I recently reformatted it. I installed Windows 8.1 (in Legacy Boot -- I actually don't know what difference it makes) and I want to update to Windows 10. I ...
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I shutdown the laptop but when I turn it on, all the programs which were open are still open
It happened 2 weeks ago and still happens everytime I shutdown my laptop,when it turns on all the programs are just as i let them before shutdown.
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Windows 10 can't boot after encryption
I used diskcryptor to encryption my C: drive, the process is done by using default encryption setting. However my Acer aspire v nitro laptop won't boot and stuck at the attempting repair screen. I ...
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My laptop won't connect to wifi
I have Acer V5-571 with windows 10.
it works very wellbut now it says it can't connect and the other people with me can connect. I have the password correct so I can't figure out what's wrong. I ...
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Acer Aspire E1-570 Black Screen, Faulty Bios?
Good morning everyone. I am having a bad time trying to fix my laptop Acer Aspire E1-570. I have a black screen of death, when I press the power button the fans start spinning for a second and then ...
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Cant access BIOS or boot after pm-hibernate on Ubuntu 15.10
ACER ASPIRE 4560-Sb601 - Ubuntu 15.10
I executed the command "sudo pm-hibernate" on Ubuntu 15.10 and could not access BIOS or boot anymore.
Grub2 appears, but boot stops with the following ...
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Aspire ES1-511 Power Cable Causes Shutdown
I have an Aspire ES1-511 laptop on battery and if I plug in the charging cable that came with the laptop it immediately shuts down. This started happening after upgrading to Windows 10.
What could be ...
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Laptop fans unexpectedly spin at full power
I have an Acer Aspire V17 Nitro (VN7-791G),
the almost 2-year old model, so the rip-off model in fact:
GTX-860 2GB, 16GB RAM, 1TB HDD, 256SSD, Intel Core i7-4710HQ. Hardware information:
My fans are ...
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Is there a way to fix my charger so that it charges my laptop, or must I buy a new one?
My Lite-On PA-1900-32 charger has ceased being able to charge my Acer Aspire Timeline U laptop. I cannot think of any immediate reason for this to be the case. For a while, charging was sketchy and I ...
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Acer Aspire One - Console Opens on Boot "Unable to open Display ' :0.0'
My mother just gave me her Laptop (Acer Aspire One ZG5) and showed me the following:
I tried to change the hostname, which should be a solution for this problem, but I've noticed that I havent got ...
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VN7 792G Black Edition with windows 7
I have managed to install windows 7 on VN7 792G Black Edition.
The last thing what's left is sound.
Realtek ALC255 sound card is not recognized, but It is detected on PCI bus.
I have been trying to ...
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Windows-7 Acer Aspire 5738 laptop simply turns off
My laptop simply switches off on its own...and I mean switch off without warning or anything...as if someone cut the power supply so the computer did not show any warning etc.
And this happens only ...
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Battery is shown as fully charged but does not feed the laptop
My laptop is a young Acer V11 Touch (V3-112P-P2E7). Yesterday I used it regularly on battery mode and I left it charging overnight. This morning's surprise is that the laptop only works when connected ...
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How to enter UEFI BIOS on Acer Aspire One, when windows 10 has disabled F2?
Web searches show that F2 is the key to enter BIOS on Acer Aspire One and it was working fine when my system had windows 8. When I upgraded to Windows 10 recently, I see that F2 is not working. I ...
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No Bootable Device Error after keyboard replacement
I have an Acer Aspire S7 and recently replaced a faulty keyboard. During the replacement, I stupidly did not disconnect the battery and may have corrupted something in the process.
After the ...
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Can I rename "All apps" on Windows 10 start menu back to "Accessories"?
"All Apps" on the Start Menu is not an intuitive name for me, so I would like to change the text to "Accessories". Is there a way to do this using the windows registry, or some other means? My OS is ...
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Sound playing through speakers when headphones are plugged in
My computer model is an Acer Aspire Timeline U currently running Windows 7 Enterprise.
My headphones are in perfect working order, but recently when I have plugged them into my laptop, the sound ...
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How do I disable touchpad tap-to-click on an Acer Aspire v3 572?
Running Windows 7. I want to turn off the tap-to-click feature without disabling the whole touchpad.
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Significant drop in battery life on new laptop
I got an Acer Aspire V Nitro about 4 months ago and I've noticed a really large drop in battery life lately, despite attempts to fix that.
Unless I really need it (games, which I rarely play, or ...