Acer Aspire 5740G Owners Lounge

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Thanks. It cooled down after the first hour for some reason. I mentioned getting the weird pink dots on my screen before, then I downloaded the ATI driver and haven't seen them since until literally just now when I clicked on these forums lol. Any suggestions? (If i click on the taskbar they go away immediately but still annoying)

Also just now I was using Google Chrome and all of a sudden it froze, had the speckles of pink right next to my cursor, and I had to hold down the power button to reboot. Anyone know what that could be?

No idea. Run some 3D tests. If there's a GPU/VRAM problem it's more likely to kick in during those. Also try another browser, use Flash 10 instead of 10.1 beta (or the other way around if you already use 10.0 )
If there is a problem you need to be able to pin-point it so that Acer support has no way out of this- so you need a set of circumstances that is going to cause this problem every time. It's also possible that it's a mixed issue- Flash + GPU drivers used for hardware encoding + certain browser- that's why I recommend trying different Flash versions and browsers.

This notebook have had no video BIOS update included in 1.16 BIOS unlike Aspire 5942 that had video BIOS updated for HD5650. Maybe there's sth wrong with memory timings on some units?
There are surely different memory chips used on different units as the overclocking results show. There's no way the same memory chips with the same cooling system can go up to 900MHz in one notebook and 1100MHz in another.

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Lol 3D tests showed nothing, and running TF2 on mostly high settings runs perfect (weird thing is that the pink dots will flash when I spawn like once every 50 spawns, but it doesn't effect anything and lasts <1 second). I'm pretty sure the crash was due to Chrome/Win7 64 bit.

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hd tune pro wont run on my win7 64 bit home pc...

any idea?

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Lol 3D tests showed nothing, and running TF2 on mostly high settings runs perfect (weird thing is that the pink dots will flash when I spawn like once every 50 spawns, but it doesn't effect anything and lasts <1 second). I'm pretty sure the crash was due to Chrome/Win7 64 bit.

I really don't know, all I know is I would be annoyed by that.
If nothing's showing in 3D tests it's most likely not the GPU/VRAM error.
Why don't you wait for next BIOS update and then decide if you wanna RMA or not.
BTW you did update your BIOS, right? (Sorry if I already asked you about that)

hd tune pro wont run on my win7 64 bit home pc...

any idea?

Try HD Tune Pro Trial. I didn't use the free one so I don't know if it works or not.

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I really don't know, all I know is I would be annoyed by that.
If nothing's showing in 3D tests it's most likely not the GPU/VRAM error.
Why don't you wait for next BIOS update and then decide if you wanna RMA or not.
BTW you did update your BIOS, right? (Sorry if I already asked you about that)

You mean the one that changed the battery stuff? Yeah. Also, played more TF2 and installed Sims 3. Both ran fine at high/medium settings. Haven't seen the pink dots in since a day and a halfish ago now. Weirrrrrrrrrd

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Would also like to say that this is a very nice laptop. Only problem I've had with the build is that a few keys on the keyboard need to be pressed pretty hard (the down arrow). Other than that haven't experienced hardware problems.

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Maybe sth is stuck there? Eating chips over the keyboard again, weren't you?
My keyboard works fine. Maybe try some canned air or whatever it's called to make sure it's clean?
BTW I actually like this type of keyboard very much- way better and easier to accustom to than I expected.

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I will try the air stuff soon, but I tried every key right out of the box (lol I hate bad keys) and it doesn't feel like anything is underneath the down arrow. It's really odd because when you press it, it feels like it should work. For some reason you have to press it ALL the way down not like the other keys where you can get away with hitting them more lightly. Either way, not too big of a deal as I have gotten used to using the arrow keys that are on the number pad, which work fine!

EDIT- Nevermind forget the cooler, I just remembered my mom has a nice metal trey that will probably do the job.

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EDIT- Nevermind forget the cooler, I just remembered my mom has a nice metal trey that will probably do the job.

This laptop doesn't really need a cooler- very nice quiet and efficient cooling system indeed- but it could surely use one. There's no such thing as too cool (pun intended )
I'm considering buying one myself- something made out of metal- Zalman and Cooler Master have something interesting to offer.
If anyone has a cooler for this laptop- please do a little comparison of temps with and without it. I don't really know if all the fuss is even worth it- how can you really make 71*C GPU any cooler?

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Yeah I think my problem is playing games with it on my bed/covers lol. I'll try it tonight with the metal trey thingy.

And yes this notebook definitely doesn't need it but I just want it to be completely comfortable and I don't feel like sitting up at a desk haha

ALSO- downloads, I wanted to say thanks because you've helped me out COUNTLESS times now and I have this nice notebook now all thanks to you if I could give you rep more than once in a row I would but NBF wants me to spread it around lol