Questions tagged [acer-aspire]
Aspire is a line of personal computers made by Acer.
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Acer Aspire V5 wifi connection drops & proximity issue
I am having a weird problem on Windows 10 with my wireless adapter recently. My wifi connections perform very poorly when my laptop is not in line-of-sight with the router. As soon as there is ...
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Boot from USB not working - Acer Aspire E1-522
I've been trying to boot a Windows 7 (yup) USB in this laptop, but neither using UEFI nor Legacy boot would work. In UEFI, always boot the HD even if it's last in priority list. In Legacy boot, ...
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How To Recover My Data From Not Detected Hard Disk?
I am using Acer Laptop one day before my Hard Disk is not detected in BIOS and not booting it's shows Insert Boot Disk and I am try another H.D.D it's boot perfectly in my Laptop but,I want detect and ...
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How do I install Windows 7 32-bit on a UEFI-based system?
I own Acer M5 recently and it comes with 64-bit Windows 8. I need it to run Windows 7 x86. I changed the BIOS setting to boot under Legacy BOOT instead of UEFI mode.
I created my bootable USB using ...
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Is there an Acer battery management tool that limits the battery charge? Should I even bother?
I have a personal laptop (Lenovo Z470) at home and what I like about it is that its battery management software has a setting called "Best Battery Health" which makes the laptop stop charging at 50% ...
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How do I find which touchpad driver I need for my Acer Aspire 5720?
I had to reinstall Windows XP on my Acer Aspire 5720 and now I'm reinstalling all the drivers. There are two touchpad drivers -- Alps and Synaptics.
I ran the program Acer provides to detect your ...
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4GB Memory Upgrade for Acer Aspire 5102WLMi
I have bought a 4GB memory upgrade (2x 2GB PC2-5300 SODIMM) for my Acer Aspire 5102WLMi (Aspire 5100 Series) laptop, I installed the two memory modules correctly however with 4GB installed the laptop ...
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How can I properly clean an acer laptop keyboard after a spill? [duplicate]
So it happened; I spilled juice on my laptop's keyboard.
It was only a little bit, but enough to instantly terrify me and make the necessary precautions to ensuring my laptop's safety.
So I did ...
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Acer Aspire s7-391 BIOS recovery
Model: Acer Aspire S7-391; 256GB SSD/4GB RAM; OS: Windows 10
Before going dead, the laptop used to randomly display 'no bootable device found' warning while turning it on. But usually it booted up ...
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Can you upgrade a soldered-in CPU? [duplicate]
I own a Acer Aspire es1-532-c5yw, and it's celeron processor is no where near what I need. I don't have enough money, however, to afford to buy a laptop with at least an i5. I was therefore wondering ...
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How to disable Secure Boot on an Acer Aspire 3 laptop?
I have a new laptop: Acer Aspire 3, model A315-51-318M.
I can enter BIOS by pressing F2 at laptop startup.
On the Boot tab there is the Secure Boot enabled and I need to disable it.
The problem is ...
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Acer Aspire E1-572G won't wake up from sleep
I have this laptop at work, Acer Aspire E1-572G, and whenever it sleeps, it does not want to wake up whatever I do. I put it to sleep by closing the lid or FN + ALT + F4.
I tried of course opening ...
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Why is my memory at 65% usage when I'm not running any programs?
I don't know why my memory is showing 65% usage even though I'm not running any programs.
And sometimes it's stuck.
My laptop specifications:
Acer Aspire VX 15
OS : Windows 10 x64 lastest ...
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How do I correctly apply thermal paste on a laptop CPU with a small surface area?
I watched several videos on YouTube, went through a lot of overclocking forums and websites, but I am yet to find a "correct" answer to this question.
Some agree with the "pea method" where you apply ...
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How can I keep my laptop fan on the entire time?
I have a fan on my laptop that doesn't turn on often enough. The computer doesn't crash, but becomes very laggy.
When the fan turns on the computer starts running fast again.
How can I keep the ...
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Disable Touchpad or PS/2 mouse
i wonder if someone can help me - I've been asked by a friend to permanently disable the touchpad on her Acer Aspire 5175Z laptop.
There's a function key combo (Fn-F7) which disabled it but only ...
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Windows 7 misses keystrokes from internal keyboard after hibernation on Acer Aspire 5820
After waking my computer (Acer Aspire with the factory default Windows 7 install and divers, Windows update running) from hibernation, it is a pain to type, since on average 5-10 keypresses are ...
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How to turn off the Acer Aspire 7738 Power Button LED light?
The Acer Aspire 7738 has a large blue light emitting power button, top left on the keyboard. Its light is rather distracting and I want to turn it off.
How can I disable this light?
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Why does my laptop shut down on its own?
My laptop shuts down.
It happened several times so far, and there is a pattern; after I leave it for an hour or so, power saving activates, and then I start using it again for 10 - 15 minutes when ...
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Stop Touchpad from disabling itself when I press any keys?
I have an acer E1-571 laptop, with an ELAN Smart Pad. Unfortunately the "Smart" pad is a bit too smart. It automatically disables itself while I am pressing any keys. This is useful when typing. ...
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Ubuntu 10.10 running on Acer Aspire 5315 Laptop keeps shutting down unexpectedly
Basically the title says it all - I have an Acer Aspire 5315 laptop on which I've installed 'Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop i386' from a bootable flash drive and while using the system thereafter all seems to ...
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How do we retrieve data from an unbootable computer? [duplicate]
Guys I'm in a big pinch right now. My computer (32-bit Vista Home Premium sp2) refuses to boot up (it keeps crashing with an error code 0x7b). I don't care about the computer right now but I need to ...
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Windows shows wrong resolution compared to display
I have/had a problem with my desktop not showing icons, namely spacing properly in Windows 8.1 and 10.
In the process of trying to fix this, some of the suggestions talked about laptop (Acer Aspire ...
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Replaced optical drive with SSD in caddy, but BIOS freezes (Acer Aspire 5740-5847)
I tried replacing the optical drive of my Acer Aspire 5740-5847 with an Intel SSD (inside a caddy I bought from ebay), but then the BIOS freezes, after showing that it has detected both hard drives - ...
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Terrible noises from subwoofer of ACER Aspire 6930 with Realtek sound chip
After approximately 5-15 min of listening to music my subwoofer begins to make terrible noises. He's just "coughing". That began after 6 months I had this computer.
Now I found out, that I can ...
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How do I reset Aspire E5-571G Insyde BIOS supervisor password?
Problem: BIOS supervisor password that is forgotten.
Manufacturer: Acer
Model: Aspire E5-571G
Architecture: 64 bit
OS: Win 10
Motherboard: Acer EA50_HB(U3E1)
BIOS.ver: Insyde Corp.V1....
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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 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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Aspire 5741g laptop display corruption a few minutes after boot
What could be the reason that my Acer Aspire 5741G laptop always gets corrupted graphics a few minutes after boot?
(Intel Chipset, Ati Graphics)
It happens kernel independent. It happens in Windows ...
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Odd hardware problem that requires a power cycle
I've been having an odd problem intermittently every several weeks with my Windows 7 PC. If I put it to sleep, occasionally, when I try to wake it up, the monitor will receive no signal.
It seems ...
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what to do if a computer gets a blue screen when trying to install windows xp
What might be the reason why I get blue screen when I try to install windows xp. on a laptop. Specifically an Acer aspire laptop with AMD Processor.
What do I do to make it work. Its probably not the ...
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Create Factory Restore Disk for Acer Aspire D250
I have an Acer Aspire One D250 netbook, who originaly comes with Windows XP.
I will install Windows 7 on it, but before I like do create the Factory Recover Disk.
The netbook don't have CD drive ...
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Waking an acer laptop from sleep with the lid closed
I have an Acer Aspire E5-571G laptop that I want to use with the lid closed. Ideally I would want to power it off and boot it without opening the lid, but I dismissed that idea. In any case I would ...
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Windows 8.1 Acer v5 blackscreen how to safe mode
After the Acer logo loads, it turns into blackscreen. How can I go to safe mode?
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I cannot find my VT-X in my BIOS
I currently using an Acer Aspire 5742G Laptop. It has an I3 processing core and according to intel, it supports virtualization. However, i was suppose to enable it right now for my android emulator ...
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High resolution display desktop icon positioning
I am using Acer Aspire S7-391 and I can't position icons to far right and to the bottom of my desktop.
I believe it has something to do with its resolution, which is 1920x1080.
I know I can position ...
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Jack probs with heaphones/earbuds
So I already asked this question, but I couldn't respond to the answers. I can't hear out of the left ear of any headphones/earbuds because I have to push the jack towards the Earth to hear out of it. ...