AS6920 Owners Lounge

[Halo360Fan]

Good to hear that problem's fixed.
I've heard that 180.70 is a decent driver, plus our 9500M GS is listed in the original INF.
Worth a shot.

are you talking about dox's driver?

[TehSuigi]

No, I'm talking about the actual 180.70 release here.

[Halo360Fan]

180.70 gave me a about 2 more FPS but then halo 2 would not work lol. Halo 2 only likes my stock drivers lol. So i'm back to my stock drivers.

[TehSuigi]

Nothing wrong with those.
Have you tried some of the other Acer 32-bit releases?
I did a huge comparo of WHQL Acer-released drivers here.
I've been running on 176.26 since.

EDIT: Oh, and if anyone has $300 they don't mind spending, someone's got Acer-BIOS 9600M GT MXM cards on eBay.

[LKR123]

Ok so i have a problem,

This happens only once in a while but it is very scary when it does because I use my computer alot these days so anyway,


once in a while when i turn i my acer (when i push down on the power button) it looks and sounds like it is booting but after about 3 seconds it turns off. Then the second time i push the power button, the button lights up and the screen will glow and the lights on the sides will light up but it doesn't boot. and then i hold the power button to turn off and i push it again and it turn on and boots fine.

this keeps happening once in a while, like once every 3-4 weeks or so


but now this just happened and its turned on and everything works fine but it says, no battery detected although i didn't touch the battery?!

so, should i worry? i bought 2 years worth of warranty from the store and they will cover any hardware problems (i've had this for little over 3 months)

[AdVitam]

Hello everybody!

I have more than one problem with my girlfriends 6920G.

I have expierienced many of problems other people had here: turning on computer display doesnt show anything, not waking from sleep, not creating recovery dvd but thats all fine, You can wor around that.

Some people had stated that problem here but without answer. So it this:

After some time of usage girlfriend started to complain about sound problems - disorton,twiching moments of losing signal . It happend with out any visible reason, then after some time everything goeas back to normal. I tested lapy myself to get bigger idea of why it's happening. Instaled some games, everything was runing fine good frame rates and then at some random moment sound sort of twitches and framerate goeas down hugly. After some time it go's back to normal. For example i tried Left 4 Dead(and other Source games) , around 70 frames even at intense parts of game , then after some time it drops down to 3-20fps and then after some minutes goeas back to 70 and then starts again,loops... Tried different games with different engines, all the same.. And sound becomes bad too. So it's related .

So far searching internet havent helped. I found that it's common problem but without answer

This is what i know:
Temperetures of laptop is fine, i even tried overclocking it it barelly goeas to 67 celsius at load (for example 8600mGS in my hp goeas to 87 ) ,4 different video drivers original and acer, tried sound drivers no luck. I know that restarting computer helps , but just for a short time , reinstalling Vista at least Acers original OEM doesnt help, dont botther. Downclocking doesnt help. Laptop usally is on external power.

So if anybody have a clue please help, really don't want to send it to repair shop.

[gazzacbr]

its xmas soon and i feel like i should spend some money (on me)
has anyone done a gpu update with one of these? (replacing 9500M GS in 6920G)

http : / / cgi.ebay.co.uk/Nvidia-MXM-Graphics-Card-GeForce-9600M-GT-Laptop-9600_W0QQitemZ170284410479QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCC_Video_TV_Cards?hash=item170284410479&_trksid=p3286.m63.l1177

i am pretty good with repairing stuff but would not really like to be the first to try.
(sorry, site wont let me post hyperlink)

[TehSuigi]

@LKR: Sounds like hardware failure to me. Go hit up your retailer for a replacement.

@AdVitam: Welcome to the forums! You're right about the sound being weird at times - make sure you're using the Acer-provided drivers for that. As for framerates, the thermal compound provided by Acer isn't too good - it's the CPU that overheats from the load, not the GPU (Source games can be taxing on both). If you're using monitoring software, keep in mind that some popular ones like to read the temperature about 15 degrees lower than actual.

@gazzacbr: No one's done an upgrade to the 9600M GT, but in theory it's possible. If you've got the time and money, by all means go for it and post back here to let us know how it went!

[gazzacbr]

ok thanks TehSuigi, when you changed your cpu, was there much more to taking out the gpu? is it only paste that i would need, any special tools? i may just buy one anyway and do later. is there any chance that an even faster replacement will become available or maybe that is the limit for gpu's that will fit? i assume that those ones on ebay will fit a 6920g?
ps TehSuigi, i have been running vista 64 on mine for several weeks now, (dual booting with xp for games) but no probs at all programs or drivers

[TehSuigi]

It didn't look like taking the GPU was too much more of a hassle. Once you've got the shared heatpipe off, it looked like there were only a few screws to remove before you could pull the MXM card from its slot.

No chance of a faster replacement becoming available - the new MXM standard is being implemented, and it's completely incompatible with the current one. Which means that 200 Series cards will not be usable in any current MXM notebooks.
Unless you can find a 9650M GT GDDR3 with a compatible BIOS. Highly unlikely, though, and you can always overclock the 9600M GT to 9650M GT levels.
The ones on eBay are MXM-II cards, likely pulls from a 6930G or 6935G. And since those two still share the same board layout and thermal set-up as the 6920G, it should fit easily.

Thanks for the info about 64-bit Vista, btw. I'm planning to upgrade when SP2 comes out - I just did a clean install about a month ago when I got my CPU, and I'm not fond of the idea of doing it all AGAIN.