Acer Aspire 5740G Owners Lounge

[Krys]

Hello to all the users of the Aspire 5740G

First of all, thank you for all your good hints, that convinced me in choosing the very fine laptop, and also for the good tips for it's use.
(And excuse me for my bad typping, I'm not really fluent in English)


I'm totally happy about this computer, well sure using the trackpad is quite a hell when you are not use to it.
If some people reading my message are still not sure about this laptop ... well buy it !!!

I only have one little problem with video reading (I speak full screen at max resolution)
When i read files (720p and 1080p) no problem : Image is perfect, no lag.

But when i read from DVD (with VLC or WMP) I found the image not to be pretty or clean. I don't know how to explain it but it's no sharp, it's little bit blurry.
Is it normal because after all, the resolution of a DVD is 720x576 and I try to "Upscale" to 1360*768
Or is there something I should do ?
(All my drivers are up to date)

Hope you understand me ( )

And thank you for your help !

[Andrew87K]

Hi all fellow 5740G users

I bought the laptop last week, so far so good. No complaints really except of battery life. I read some posts here that battery lasts over 3 hours on power saving just browsing internet. I tested it today, with a very low activity on laptop, just msn with some browsing and I managed to get only 2 hours 21 minutes, all settings set for max battery life. Latest bios version, no epower management installed however. Could it be it? Thanks for suggestions!

[klubakas]

Hello folks, finally i bought this laptop and kinda read ~120 pages, but still can't find hoe to OC gpu. Downloaded the soft that is written in first page and dunno where and how many set those MHzs.. Attached SS.

Anyone? may sound stupid, but still can't figure out.. downloaded AMD GPU ClockTool v0.9.26.0 and dunno where and by how much should i increase..?

[lacienega]

My DVD player runs really sluggish and skipping frames when I watch some homemade movies that I've burned. The DVD's run smooth even on my 4 year old Dell with onboard graphics...

I remember I had that problem before with my old laptop running win XP...I was able to fix it by changing the secondary channel (DVD Drive) from PIO to DMA mode in device manager under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers...but guess what? I don't have any channels at all listed on this acer...

anybody has any channels listed there? check my screen shot...

[klubakas]

never mind, found out on a page.. oh and by the way, installed launch manager and it works just fine..

[downloads]

Hello folks, finally i bought this laptop and kinda read ~120 pages, but still can't find hoe to OC gpu. Downloaded the soft that is written in first page and dunno where and how many set those MHzs.. Attached SS.

Set 650MHz for core and about 850MHz for memory, use "set clocks" button and you're done. After you've finished gaming use "restore default clocks" button. If everything goes fine you may increase both values until you either see artifacts (probably little dots- that's memory) or computer stops responding (that would be core)

Hello to all the users of the Aspire 5740G

(...)

I only have one little problem with video reading (I speak full screen at max resolution)
When i read files (720p and 1080p) no problem : Image is perfect, no lag.

But when i read from DVD (with VLC or WMP) I found the image not to be pretty or clean. I don't know how to explain it but it's no sharp, it's little bit blurry.
Is it normal because after all, the resolution of a DVD is 720x576 and I try to "Upscale" to 1360*768
Or is there something I should do ?
(All my drivers are up to date)

Hope you understand me ( )

And thank you for your help !

There are two possibilities either the source that was placed on DVD wasn't that good in the first place (sometimes it doesn't get remastered and is in essence VHS on DVD) or you got used to HD I have similar feeling having watched a HD movie with everything less-than-HD.
Still you may want to test K Lite Codec Pack and use Cyberlink decoder as default for DVD.

My DVD player runs really sluggish and skipping frames when I watch some homemade movies that I've burned. The DVD's run smooth even on my 4 year old Dell with onboard graphics...

I remember I had that problem before with my old laptop running win XP...I was able to fix it by changing the secondary channel (DVD Drive) from PIO to DMA mode in device manager under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers...but guess what? I don't have any channels at all listed on this acer...

anybody has any channels listed there? check my screen shot...

That was XP specific issue that is no problem under Vista or Win 7. It may be a problem with recording quality- some drivers have batter correction while the others don't so it's possible that DVD drive in Dell is just better in this respect. Use K Probe on one of DVDs you have problems with and post a screenshot.

[ElBow513]

Hello all, I've owned the 5740G-6979 for over a month and yesterday I experienced the pink dots and green dots everywhere. I plugged in the HDMI port to my TV and the screen was perfect on the TV but still pink and green internally. I restarted the computer with the HDMI unplugged and the screen was black. I updated BIOS to 1.22 and the latest ATI CCC drivers but my screen is still completely black but fine with the HDMI output. The backlight of the LCD isnt even on, its not even powered it seems. It seems it doesnt recognize I have an internal screen. When i try and switch modes with projector (duplicate or extend etc) it only detects my TV as my lone display. Under the displays page of ATI CCC there is only the TV no internal screen. Any ideas? Can I reinstall some sort of driver? My web cam doesnt work either. THANKS SO MUCH!

[Puhpuhan4o]

Thanks for the battery-question answer ,was helpful
Now i Have 1 more thing to clear out:
What are the HIGHEST SAFE Temperatures for the Core and GPU?
I have CPUID Hardware Monitor and GPU-Z (special for GPU) that can track the temperature scale. So what are the highest safe temperatures for both the Processor and the GPU ( you can also tell me the optimal ones).
Just need to know at what point should I start yelling and worrying that my laptop overheats. Thanks again, you guys are helpful, thank you for being there

[downloads]

Hello all, I've owned the 5740G-6979 for over a month and yesterday I experienced the pink dots and green dots everywhere. I plugged in the HDMI port to my TV and the screen was perfect on the TV but still pink and green internally. I restarted the computer with the HDMI unplugged and the screen was black. I updated BIOS to 1.22 and the latest ATI CCC drivers but my screen is still completely black but fine with the HDMI output. The backlight of the LCD isnt even on, its not even powered it seems. It seems it doesnt recognize I have an internal screen. When i try and switch modes with projector (duplicate or extend etc) it only detects my TV as my lone display. Under the displays page of ATI CCC there is only the TV no internal screen. Any ideas? Can I reinstall some sort of driver? My web cam doesnt work either. THANKS SO MUCH!

I'd recover Windows using recovery partition to make sure it's no software issue, which it doesn't seem to be unfortunately and if it doesn't help RMA the notebook.

Thanks for the battery-question answer ,was helpful
Now i Have 1 more thing to clear out:
What are the HIGHEST SAFE Temperatures for the Core and GPU?
I have CPUID Hardware Monitor and GPU-Z (special for GPU) that can track the temperature scale. So what are the highest safe temperatures for both the Processor and the GPU ( you can also tell me the optimal ones).
Just need to know at what point should I start yelling and worrying that my laptop overheats. Thanks again, you guys are helpful, thank you for being there

You don't have to worry about overheating- this notebook has a very good cooling system but still you can assume that id GPU is below 80*C it's OK, same goes for CPU although getting it up to 80*C is easier but only possible when recoding video or in stress tests. Optimal temperatures are impossible to determine- don't worry about it- your average and max temps depend more on where you live and what's your room temperature than on anything else. Acer (or Wistron eho actually makes this notebook for Acer) did a good job designing the cooling system.

[Krys]

There are two possibilities either the source that was placed on DVD wasn't that good in the first place (sometimes it doesn't get remastered and is in essence VHS on DVD) or you got used to HD I have similar feeling having watched a HD movie with everything less-than-HD.
Still you may want to test K Lite Codec Pack and use Cyberlink decoder as default for DVD.

You were totaly right !
The DVD i tried was a cheap (but genuine) one, those you buy at 30€ for 5 movies.
Yesterday I tried my collector version of Lord Of The Ring and the lastest springsteen live DVD, and the image is waaaayyy better !
Well buying cheap DVD has a price ! I won't go fullscreen on those.

Thank for the help !