Acer Aspire 8930G Owner's Lounge

[oyelafrecuenciadecae]

Hi, can anyone help me with a serious problem i got with my 8930g: it does not power on.
I bought it in june last year, upgraded it to windows 7 and used it with very few problems until last week, when all of a sudden it abruptly powered off and would not turn on again. I tried the static release trick that i read somewhere, but i fear my problem is more serious. On the pc no lights come on. On the power unit the green light still comes om fine. Battery was also fine just before the crash. I suspect some fuse went inside the pc or the motherboard has a problem. I'd like to fix it myself rather than sending it in. Can anyome give me some advice? The only thing that happens when i plug the power unit into the pc is that there is a very slight ticking noise from near the on/off switch, about as slight as a pocket watch. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Curehead

P.s. Warranty expired

(sorry for my bad english)

Hi. I had the same problem. The wire that the AC in with the laptop electronics might be damaged. You just need to re connect it and it will be back to life.

[oyelafrecuenciadecae]

Hi 9830g owners

I want to replace the original cooling fan (Sunon maglev ZB0508PHV1-6A)
because its a sucky fan.
(by the way.. does anyone know what the speed is of this fan?)

I found the following fan on the internet :
Acer FAN.SET.VERTICAL.3600RPM.LF :
::: ACES Direct ::: Acer FAN.SET.VERTICAL.3600RPM.LF (23.AP50N.001)
it fits for acer 8920g & 8930g.

I have a few doubts that this is the same fan like the original in the notebook..
Though the original fan goes under a different part n° than the FAN.SET.V.. one.
Also nothing any sunon fan's can be found on the acerparts website. Just the Fan.set.vertical like you see here: (Hardware Cooling - Worlds Greatest Site for Acer Spare Part

In case these are 2 the same fans, would it be a good idea to connect the fan wire to and usb cable so it could blow continously, instead of stopping all the time..?


Edit: Forgot to ask what temperatures ur GPU reaches while gaming??

thnx!

Hi, I want to replace the fan too, anyone here knows another compatible fan? Thanks

[Talon88]

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Can You take a photo of the Wire?

Thanks...!

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(sorry for my bad english)

Hi. I had the same problem. The wire that the AC in with the laptop electronics might be damaged. You just need to re connect it and it will be back to life.

[M3darkangel]

Well I was amazed at what I just found inside my laptop.

Guilty as charged, I swapped my 500GB HD with a 250GB SSD which may have helped heat my laptop.

anyway... playing fallout 3, my laptop shuts down.. no warning just turns off. feeling the back of the laptop and its VERY warm. The fan was going barmy so its definitely a heat problem. looked at the side and back vents they seem clear, took back off and the fan has a little dust on it but should be ok. Then I read on another forum about build up of lint under the fan. The fan is only held in by 3 small screws so i removed them, removed the fan and..... WOW look at all that fluff. My poor laptop, how the hell was it supposed to keep itself cool when it cant even breath! I hoovered this out (beware of any hoover which has static build up) and i thought id also check the heat sink on top of the GPU. I was wondering about putting an aftermarket fan on this but clearance was a big issue. Being me i fumbled with one screw thinking it would be too tight to remove anyway but it was VERY loose. noticing this i checked the rest and they were all loose. I've nipped them all up tight which should help the heat transfer from the gpu to the heat sink.... now i'm wondering. If the screws were all loose anyway will the thermal paste/pad contact have been sepperated just slightly and will need to be renewed.

[mjmacnab]

Well I was amazed at what I just found inside my laptop.

Guilty as charged, I swapped my 500GB HD with a 250GB SSD which may have helped heat my laptop.

anyway... playing fallout 3, my laptop shuts down.. no warning just turns off. feeling the back of the laptop and its VERY warm. The fan was going barmy so its definitely a heat problem. looked at the side and back vents they seem clear, took back off and the fan has a little dust on it but should be ok. Then I read on another forum about build up of lint under the fan. The fan is only held in by 3 small screws so i removed them, removed the fan and..... WOW look at all that fluff. My poor laptop, how the hell was it supposed to keep itself cool when it cant even breath! I hoovered this out (beware of any hoover which has static build up) and i thought id also check the heat sink on top of the GPU. I was wondering about putting an aftermarket fan on this but clearance was a big issue. Being me i fumbled with one screw thinking it would be too tight to remove anyway but it was VERY loose. noticing this i checked the rest and they were all loose. I've nipped them all up tight which should help the heat transfer from the gpu to the heat sink.... now i'm wondering. If the screws were all loose anyway will the thermal paste/pad contact have been sepperated just slightly and will need to be renewed.

Thanks for this post. I'd recently defluffed my 15 month old 8930G but had omitted to take the fan out, having seen this I decided to do just that and had the same problem, loads of fluff in the exit vents off the sides of the fan. Whilst in there I checked the screws on my graphics card heatsink but they seem tight enough to me, so I left this well alone. I'm hoping you've now solved the slight heating issues I've been experiencing recently.

You get rep from me. Cheers.

Murray

[laurentg0]

Hi 8930G owners,

This is my 1st post on notebookreview, and I hope someone can help me
with my card reader problem.

So, I'm running my 8930G under Vista Premium 32bits SP2.

The first time I inserted a sd-hc card in the card reader,
the driver installation took place, then ...nothing

The drive never appeared in Window explorer, even after "display updating".
I tried another sd card, an old mmc card without success.

I rebooted the notebook with the sd card inserted, nothing happened.

I upgraded the last drivers from Acer site, then from JMICRON site, and still when I inserted Sd cards nothing Happened

Totally desperate, I even phoned Acer support
They proposed to reinstall everything from scratch (as usual...)

Well, if someone already faced this problem and solved it, please tell me how.

Regards,

Laurent

[RickyRix2009]

I'm wondering if anyone has had the problem with the file CompPtcVUI.exe?
I've noticed recently that i've been suffering from a slow CPU and when checking which processes are running this file is constantly using up my CPU. It is located in the Acer Bio Protection folder. I don't know what is causing this program to start up or what I can disable to stop it running. I currently dont use the Bio Protection on my laptop and would like to stop this file running without deleting it.
Any help would be most grateful

[shakennstirred]

I'm wondering if anyone has had the problem with the file CompPtcVUI.exe?
I've noticed recently that i've been suffering from a slow CPU and when checking which processes are running this file is constantly using up my CPU. It is located in the Acer Bio Protection folder. I don't know what is causing this program to start up or what I can disable to stop it running. I currently dont use the Bio Protection on my laptop and would like to stop this file running without deleting it.
Any help would be most grateful

how much cpu is it using, as i have just checked mine and this file is using 0% on my 8930

[RickyRix2009]

Sometimes it goes as high as 70-75, then back down to 0. Most of the time it sits around the 40-45 range. I'm thinking of just uninstalling the Bio software as I don't really need it

[mjmacnab]

Sometimes it goes as high as 70-75, then back down to 0. Most of the time it sits around the 40-45 range. I'm thinking of just uninstalling the Bio software as I don't really need it

First, if you've made your system restore disks, then you might as well delete it as you can easily enough restore it later if you decide to use it. If you haven't, and you want to play it safe ant avoid deleting it (just in case), then have you checked that Bio isn't starting up at bootup even though you don't use it? Presumably if the process is running then Bio is in some kind of auto start mode? I know it's part of the eData Security Management module which includes Fingerprint related software, so it seems it definitely relates to Bio, if that helps?