Acer Aspire 8930G Owner's Lounge

[pirijiri]

This is not an actual technical problem but it's really bugging me all the same. On the display of an 8930G there are rubber stripes that run along the top of the display above the LCD screen and on the sides. On the top of mine a part of it has broken off. I know it's only trivial but it's bugging the life out of me. I was wondering if you could get another one from Acer or if you can get one off ebay or if anyone has had this on their Acer.

Much appreciated if someone could give me some pointers. More is just going to peel away at some point and become more unsighty.

Also had this relatively small problem. Two pieces of rubber where gone on the right side, laptop was still sitting stable, but when i pressed the lower right corner of my 8930g i could notice it. I couldnt even find the pieces so i could fix it myself. I too found it pretty irritating nonetheless.

First plan was to rip such a piece of my older laptop, but those s where stuck tight.I cut and superglued it in the correct place. Kind of a band-aid solution there but i worked out just fine here.

[shakennstirred]

looks like i may have got a bad x9100 CPU off ebay
i have been having random blue screens since i fitted it, they can be 6-7 hours after i boot or just 10mins, there is no set pattern and some of them have been when I'm not evening doing anything on the laptop, its just running background programs.
i have put my old CPU back in and not had 1 crash in the 12hrs its been running

[sanke1]

looks like i may have got a bad x9100 CPU off ebay
i have been having random blue screens since i fitted it, they can be 6-7 hours after i boot or just 10mins, there is no set pattern and some of them have been when I'm not evening doing anything on the laptop, its just running background programs.
i have put my old CPU back in and not had 1 crash in the 12hrs its been running

did you run Orthos CPU stress test?

[shakennstirred]

did you run Orthos CPU stress test?

did once for 15mins, but that didnt show anything up
the cpu did throttle back to 1.5ghz to stay cool though
just strange its not having any crashs with my old cpu back in
i had the blue screens in win7 64bit and vista 32bit


on a side note i see acer have put the 1.14 bios back up on there website

[sanke1]

15 min stress test is not enough

Ideally keep the stress test running overnight for 8-9 hrs to judge the stability.
Yours could also have been simple windows file corruption that u got BSODs.

[shakennstirred]

15 min stress test is not enough

Ideally keep the stress test running overnight for 8-9 hrs to judge the stability.
Yours could also have been simple windows file corruption that u got BSODs.

its not about stressing it though, as said it will crash even when its not doing anything
what on 2 different hdd`s, 1 with win 7 and other with vista and how come now the old cpu`s back in the laptops running fine???
if it was file curruption it would still be there even after changing cpu`s

[g60force]

looks like i may have got a bad x9100 CPU off ebay
i have been having random blue screens since i fitted it, they can be 6-7 hours after i boot or just 10mins, there is no set pattern and some of them have been when I'm not evening doing anything on the laptop, its just running background programs.
i have put my old CPU back in and not had 1 crash in the 12hrs its been running

I seriously recommend at least 1 OS reinstall (clean)

[Karlos103]

also did the operating systems update the processer driver ? mine did so now in device manager , under processor it has the x9100 listed twice .
Vista 32 bit found new hardware and installed drivers , works a treat but also after installing chip i did a clean install of windows 7 64bit on my other hard drive ...they are both working fine with this new chip , not stress tested it ...but working fine under normal use like surfing net or just decoding a small film / file .
Do you think you may have a heat issue if it throttle back when it run the stress test , maybe needs better thermal paste , just an idea .
There is a way of reading what the BSOD says but i dont now how to do it , but have heard there is such a way , then you would know what is causing it , surely someone on here can put you in the right direction to finding the way the read it ??? i really think this is the only way your going to find out if it is the chip or a driver issue .
Karl

[shakennstirred]

also did the operating systems update the processer driver ? mine did so now in device manager , under processor it has the x9100 listed twice .
Vista 32 bit found new hardware and installed drivers , works a treat but also after installing chip i did a clean install of windows 7 64bit on my other hard drive ...they are both working fine with this new chip , not stress tested it ...but working fine under normal use like surfing net or just decoding a small film / file .
Do you think you may have a heat issue if it throttle back when it run the stress test , maybe needs better thermal paste , just an idea .
There is a way of reading what the BSOD says but i dont now how to do it , but have heard there is such a way , then you would know what is causing it , surely someone on here can put you in the right direction to finding the way the read it ??? i really think this is the only way your going to find out if it is the chip or a driver issue .
Karl

i used AS5 thermal paste and it was contacting evenly

[sanke1]

Mate your best bet is to re-install windows 7 and then doing stress test. Just to check if CPU is the culprit and not anything else.