Acer Aspire 8930G Owner's Lounge

[Daking]

I found another problem with the new bios on my system. When i was running on battery and closed my lid my system shut off. Even though i have it set to do nothing. And when I started it up the next day it said there was a shutdown problem. I haven't tried the sleep/resume functions yet to see if something is affected there as i run on ac power most of the time. I wonder if this bios is not fully made for 8930G as my system is the G version. Anyone know what the G version means anyway..

[ejhines]

New Owner Acer 8930g-7665

When I try to start Bluetooth, I always get the BSOD stating memory management is the problem. Has anyone else had this problem and conquered it?

Thanks for any help, ejhines

[DevilzEye]

Hello everyone, I have a question, since there are 14 pages of posts in this forum and everyone seems to obiously have or own one of these laptops, i figure this would be the place to ask

Acer Aspire 8930G-6448 (of course)
The hard drive as stated by many ppl here is a 320GB hard drive, which is partitioned into two 140GB drives. I was wondering, if by any chance i could use the Acer recovery discs to return this laptop to its factory state (with the OS reinstalled, vista ultimate 64-bit, all its drivers, etc.. garbage programs not a problem, they can be removed), but only making one change to its factory condition:: the partitions being REMOVED and changed as loading into ONE 320GB Drive, since using 2 partitions, i end up LOSING about 60GB of availalbe space where-as using ONE 320GB partition, normally only about 5-10GB is lost (for cache).

Basically the quick version: i want to use factory discs to restore, keeping everything the lappy comes with, but only having one partition rather than two. Is this possible?? i'd like to make sure before i LOSE EVERYTHING just to be disappointed lol, that would suck coz it takes forever.

My email is in my profile i believe, if not, go to my homepage and use the contact us link to send me a reply if anyone knows.

Thanks,
DevilzEye

EDIT: i'm also looking for a service manual for this model if anyone knows where one is located online (in case i have to replace hardware in the future)

[nattygreg]

it will come back with the partiions thats how its program
actually you have 1 (15gb)partition 1(3.54gb) that leaves you with C: that is roughly (124gb) the previous two are hidden then you have D: which is (144gb)

here is the good thing I did a clean install and merge the two to one which gives me a total of 279.5gb to install vista business which is light and funtional notice I didnot have my full 320 gb that because the previous two partition are still hidden, I leave them intact just incase I need to restore to factory setting.

but any ways once you use the recovery disk you will get the default factory setting


what you could create your own imaage of your pc and set the parameters like what to do with hard drive


ps does the bluetooth work on your laptop,

i dont remember if i have proile email on this page, its almost 3 am and i'm tired so use the contact page on my web to send me a reply

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[nattygreg]

PS PS

The harddrive is under the largest enclosure under the bottom remove the screws and you see it. the next thing you should know is that there is a second drivebay for you to install a second hard drive you could the second one as strictly data, however i external enclosure for that

[DevilzEye]

nattygreg
see the external enclosure is a bit luggish to cart around as i work in a paper mill, and i take my laptop with me to play games during my many breaks at work (if we're lucky enough), and yes i did notice the second hard drive bay that was SATA, i was thinking about buying a 320GB 7200RPM drive as an added storage, but i would only need it if i couldn't remove the partitions. What i did was i used Macrium Reflect free edition to create an Image of my hard drive, and i took the hard drive out of my Dell Studio 1735 and put it in my Aspire as a secondary to store the image file of my HDD. After using a vista disc to delete the partitions and combine them into like you said, a 279GB partition, i restored the image from the Dell HDD, then removed the Second drive and all is perfect now had to re-install my Steam software though, and that was all so far, and everything else is just exactly how i left it. I will keep this Macrium for anyone local who wants me to replace their hard drive as this program works very fast, and its reliable. Only took me about 2 hours to complete a 110GB image (creating and restoring the image).

And yes nattygreg, my bluetooth does work because i use it with my LG Dare cell phone with file transfer, and i also have a Microsoft Bluetooth notebook mouse 5000 OEM and it works flawlessly even for games

But an external enclusure to lug around with this lappy, eh... laptop is heavy enough, add an external HDD with that and thats more added weight (externals weigh almost 3x as an internal, plus the power cord, data cord, etc..)

[Chezzdevil]

my 8930g came with 1 320 gb HDD. does the 8930g have 2 HDD slots so i can add another 320gb?
also as my 320gb is in 2 140GB partitions, wouldnt that leave me with 140gb,140gb and a 320gb partition if i added another 320gb HDD? it would be useless as i already use 1 for running stuff (C drive) and 1 for storein movies and films and other data(D drive), so the 320 gb(E drive i guess) would also be for storeing data i guess?

i think i might need one as i already filed 50gb lol.


i think avast is better, and for me it detects more viruses.

bought the same wdc hard disk (around 60€) opened the underpanel and just slid it in; a little cmd stuff (partedit, create, assign, format) and nowx iç_ have my 640G machine, real easy, cheap & childplay

Serge

[Chezzdevil]

Hi,

Anyone knows how to get the bluetooth on as a default, I use a bluetooth mouse and that would save me switching and waiting for the bluetooth to come alive

Thanks in advance,

Serge

[chriscatt]

I updated the bios to 1.10 here everything seems fine. Except I ran Cpu-z it still shows dram frequency as 400mhz. Also the same in EVEREST. Strangely mine shows type DDR3 though, unlike the screenshot that was posted earlier here by a different member. Also the bios windows flasher has no backup feature so be careful!

Hi, as I've just purchased one of these laptops I did the bios upgrade becuase it was running the memory slow and now it reports the speed the memory should be running at for the P8500 CPU.



Chris

[Daking]

Hi, as I've just purchased one of these laptops I did the bios upgrade becuase it was running the memory slow and now it reports the speed the memory should be running at for the P8500 CPU.



Chris

Strange that the bios update did not fix that for me. I've tried flashing it twice. Do you have a Aspire 8930 or 8930G? Also under mainboard what week does it show yours mine says Week 38 of 2008..Also mine shows DDR3 Micron Ram, do you have the same brand? The only thing I can figure is I have a T5800 Cpu which runs at 800mhz fsb but I dont think that should not let my ram run at 1006mhz?