Acer Aspire 5740G Owners Lounge

[Spaceside]

It's impossible without SetFSB.

DAMMIT!

Oh well, it was worth a shot

[jataprok]

The link works- I'm using those drivers as we speak.
Maybe you should consider cleaning the system (some kind of driver sweeper) and re-download and re-install new drivers again.

Hey downloads, how did you install them, I mean did you uninstall previous drivers and then install the new ones or directly installed the new ones or used some kind of driver sweeper?

>.< witcher 2 is too slow running on my old drivers. >.<



Btw can some one post the results for Witcher 2. how 5740 runs it?

[garfieldncheese]

The only thing that's useful in this package is SATA driver (SATA AHCI controller) so it would be better to install the package and then remove whatever it adds from autostart and disable services.

thanks for the info. wat exactly is it useful for?? (sata ahci)??

[downloads]

Hey downloads, how did you install them, I mean did you uninstall previous drivers and then install the new ones or directly installed the new ones or used some kind of driver sweeper? (...)

Official ATI recommendation was to install on top of the old ones unless you've had problems in which case driver sweeper or similar tool was recommended.

thanks for the info. wat exactly is it useful for?? (sata ahci)??

SATA AHCI controller can be seen under "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" in device manager and it (indirectly) controls your DVD and more importantly HDD so it's advisable to use the most recent version (although some might argue that it's better not to upgrade if you have no problems with it- I can see a point in that too)

[Taylort]

My first post here hehe
I just wanted to share some thoughts about cleaning this laptop, which I did yesterday. A good ideea is to clean the cooler out too, meaning that open the cooler's case (4 black tiny screws), open it as much as you can and blow some air from the back, so the dust from inside the radiator elements comes out. I also manually cleaned with a tiny brush all the fan's palettes.
Doing this my temperature dropped in Idle by 6 degrees Celsius from 54-55 to 46-47, and in-game from 76-78 to max 60 degrees, overclocked.
Note: I Have the I3/HD5470 model, and I didn't apply any special thermal compound, just a regular one used in electronics .

[newuser3]

Guys, sorry if this has been already adressed, but today I tried updating my ati catalyst control center from the stock one to the one from ati site.- ( catalyst install manger 11.9 )

I am getting the BSOD while installing the ati display driver component.

I shows that the drivers are installed. And the screen is in crappy 800x600 res. So i uninstall the drivers and it now the display is fine.. aero working fine all back to normal, but when I use the catalsyst software, It says that no drivers are detected.

Can any 1 tell if the link given in the very 1st post works? or do I have to folllow any steps.

TIA

i have the same bsod from 11.5. i install 2 times new drivers and everything works great. i have Pl version Win7, mayby this is the problem?

[klubakas]

Hey downloads, can you from now on add some date stamps near the drivers(like date when they will get updated) on first page? If it ain't hard for ya. I believe for some of us it would be easier/comfortable.

[downloads]

OK I will mark them this way from now on.

[jataprok]

i have the same bsod from 11.5. i install 2 times new drivers and everything works great. i have Pl version Win7, mayby this is the problem?

I downloaded the latest drivers catalyst suite 11.10 and updated on top the existing (I think *corrupted*) update. It installed fine without any bsod.

Talking of the same BSOD, The one I got is 0x116 TDR timeout error on atikmpag.sys. NO specific fix has proposed for it yet. But It seems that it is a common error and that updating the latest drivers is doing the trick.

Btw I also updated to the latest BIOS 1.28. May be it played a part in updating correctly, we never know.

Happy gaming!

[garfieldncheese]

i just tried connecting my laptop to a 40 " lcd tv via hdmi. everything works fine but i noticed that the display appears to be very dark. how do i change it. i tried adjusting colour settings of the tv and the laptop but i somehow manage to make it look worse. if anyone games via hdmi could you please give some simple instructions?? it would be very helpful
@ jataprok: ccc11.10 isn't out yet. are you talking about beta drivers??