Acer Aspire 8930G Owner's Lounge

[shakennstirred]

It is still available on the Canada site.

they have pulled off the uk site for some reason
it was there yesterday

edit i just looked on the canada site and its not there also
u looking on the 8930g? as i dont see it on uk/usa and canada sites

[djpailo]

Strange indeed. They have now removed support for Microsoft XP as well.

[starsie]

it would seem that ACER have pulled the 1.14 bios
any idea why??

Everything seemed to work ok with 1.14, but temperature sensors on CPU's would not refresh under no program. HWmonitor, Everest, Speedfan...they could only read the initial temperature when you started them. After that temperature was just frozen.
I'm pretty sure they found many more problems with it, oherwise they wouldn't pull it.

And NO, Acer Canada DOES NOT have 1.14 either (neither on English nor on French langauage sites). None of the Acer sites do.

AR

[starsie]

Strange indeed. They have now removed support for Microsoft XP as well.

Support for XP was removed quite a while ago.

[Ericel]

Hmm should one revert to 1.13 then perhaps?

[x64Man]

Hi,

Here is some absolutely correct info for people wanting to upgrade their 8930g with Core Duo to Quads.

First of all: NONE of the 8930g notebooks support Q9100, Q9200 or QX9300 Quads. PERIOD! Acer has NEVER MADE a motherboard or BIOS (1.0 - 1.14) for 8930g that supports the MICROCODE of those processors.

That is a checked (physically) and confirmed FACT!
For your own sake - DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY OR TIME.

NOW GOOD NEWS!

IF your 8930g shows the following specs under "MOTHERBOARD" in CPU-Z:

Model: Aspire 8930 PSMBOU-1234567
Chipset: Intel PM45 Rev. 07
Southbridge: Intel 82801IM (ICH9-M)

AND (VERY IMPORTANT!) it is using 1066mhz DDR3 memory (NOT DDR2!), which means that it FULLY supports 1066mhz FSB, then:

You CAN UPGRADE to OEM Q9000 SLGEJ 2.00GHz 6mb L2 cache.

This is how their Quad Core 8930g's come from FACTORY.

As a matter of fact, if your 8930g has the above specs you can use (or upgrade to) any of the following OEM (not ES!) processors:

P7350 2.00GHz
P8400 2.26GHz
T5800 2.00GHz (The slowest one, anybody would want to upgrade =)! )
T6400 2.00GHz (Same turtle as T5800! )
T9400 2.53GHz

and the rest of the 45nm Core 2 Duo family including Extreme with 1066MHz FSB.

And FINALLY:

Q9000 2.00GHz (As fast as you can get on this notebook. Period! )

KEEP IN MIND, that if you are upgrading from slower processors that have 25W thermal design to Extreme or Quad with 45w thermal design you will get a noisier and hotter machine. But as long as you won't try to OVERCLOCK (which InsydeH20 bios DOES NOT support natively!) and clean your vents, you will be fine, even under long full loads.

Hope this answered MANY questions.

AR.

Hi starsie,

I meet these requirements on my AS8930G-6555 and just tried Q9000 (SLGEJ) and no luck, would not boot. Was wondering what BIOS you are running, I have 1.14 on mine but I see it is now removed for download. I have reverted back to 1.13 and was wondering if it is worth trying Q9000 again.

Thanks

[sanke1]

I am using 1.14 bios without any problems.

BTW today i finally replaced my UK keyboard with US one. Works great.

[Agony]

Can someone run 3dmark 2006 on 9600m gt and post the results please ?

DOes anyone knows how to flsh the 9600m gt to 9700m gt ? its the same cards . but i dont know were and how to flash it

[starsie]

Hi starsie,

I meet these requirements on my AS8930G-6555 and just tried Q9000 (SLGEJ) and no luck, would not boot. Was wondering what BIOS you are running, I have 1.14 on mine but I see it is now removed for download. I have reverted back to 1.13 and was wondering if it is worth trying Q9000 again.

Thanks

1.13 and yes, i would try again.

[x64Man]

1.13 and yes, i would try again.

Thanks for the info. I have to go get somemore thermal paste and then I will give it another go.