Acer Aspire TimelineX 4820TG Owners Lounge

[kefan777]

Can anyone please post a mirror to the new video driver from acer's website, for days I've been getting 18KB max download speed and either Time Warner/My modem sucks because I get constant D/C's. Thanks.

here you go. It dropped mine after 100MB first time too and i got 50/5 connection, so it's rather acer to blame.

MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service

Must be it. So is only the 5820T available in the US, and not the 5820TG?

yes, 5820TG is available from Europe though.

Acer Aspire TimelineX 5820TG-484G75Mnks 39,6 cm: Amazon.de: Computer & Zubehör

I used to have the Acer 4820TG-7805 (ATI 5650 card) last year, it was an excellent purchase and I loved it so much. Unfortunately it got stolen. So I bought another Acer 4820TG but this was model 6847 with an ATI 6550M card and 640GB HDD. I updated the RAM to 8GB.

Anyways, I remember on my old laptop I could reach 8 hours of battery life really easily. On my current new one I can't get any higher than 5 hours at the max. I don't know why, since I installed all the same drivers and the GPU switches to Intel whenever the laptop gets unplugged and I tried my best to close all unnecessary apps and services.

Kind of a stretch, but I'm just wondering if anyone has had any similar experiences as to what could be causing my battery life to be so low with my new laptop as compared to the old one.

Are your settings on the same brightness etc? maybe it's just in the battery itself.

[pepperboyx]

hey guys its me again. do you know what the warranty period is for this laptop? i dropped it by accident and the side is a little chipped. the laptop itself is fine but the DVD drive is a little crooked. and the right hinge is also a bit messed up. will the warranty cover it?

[aylafan]

Warranty is usually 1 year from Acer. I'm not sure if the Warranty cover accidentals.

If you registered for warranty (with the SNID: number on the bottom of the laptop) on the Acer website; you can check to see when the warranty ends. If you never registered the warranty then I have no idea if it still works.
Acer Support

[Bronsky]

hey guys its me again. do you know what the warranty period is for this laptop? i dropped it by accident and the side is a little chipped. the laptop itself is fine but the DVD drive is a little crooked. and the right hinge is also a bit messed up. will the warranty cover it?

Warranty in the US does not cover accidential damage. I think accidential warranties were offered in Asia. US warranties were one year depot repair or replacement.

If you're within your warranty period go to the Acer site and register. I just bought a 2 year extension to my warranty for a little over a hundred dollars.

[Goochpy]

Hi guys, first time posting here!

I'm having a really annoying problem with my TimelineX 4820TG - 6847

When I bought the notebook it worked just fine. Then once a month, it started to have some issues with the ati card. Windows would just freeze, then a small crash and a black screen appears, only to finally work again stating that the "ati drivers stopped working".

Now every time I plug the computer the driver crashes and crashes and crashes, it tries to recover from the crash but then it crashes again. When I use the computer unplugged with the intel card it works just fine. Also works fine (some times) when I use the Ati card unplugged.

Also when it crashes the card fan starts to work at full speed.

Overall, the ati card works some times. But most of the time it just crashes. I'm with the 6550m by the way. Please, please help me!

[aylafan]

You can't have flash, YouTube, games or any graphics acelerated hardware/software enabled when you are switching graphics; this includes Windows Messenger, IE 9, et cetera.

Best remedy is to close them and then restart the laptop.

[iwin2000]

Hi guys, first time posting here!

I'm having a really annoying problem with my TimelineX 4820TG - 6847

When I bought the notebook it worked just fine. Then once a month, it started to have some issues with the ati card. Windows would just freeze, then a small crash and a black screen appears, only to finally work again stating that the "ati drivers stopped working".

Now every time I plug the computer the driver crashes and crashes and crashes, it tries to recover from the crash but then it crashes again. When I use the computer unplugged with the intel card it works just fine. Also works fine (some times) when I use the Ati card unplugged.

Also when it crashes the card fan starts to work at full speed.

Overall, the ati card works some times. But most of the time it just crashes. I'm with the 6550m by the way. Please, please help me!

Update your graphics drivers to the latest ones (released like two weeks ago). Read the posts I've made starting around page 450. I had the same issue as you with the driver crashing on the ATI card (specifically when watching HW accelerated flash videos on a browser though) and I got it resolved. It is most likely not a hardware-related issue so please don't send it off to Acer and waste a couple months getting it back because it probably won't be fixed. Updating the graphics drivers will probably fix it. If not, uninstall the drivers/software completely and then try again because that's what I had to do.

[X e n u x]

Hi, I have a problem in my 4820TG. My cpu temps reaches 105 degrees max! and my graphics reaches 90+ degrees. I believe the fan is the problem cause I can't really hear it spinning or maybe the BIOS? I currently have 1.17 and yea its old. I remember I used to hear the fan spinning when gaming and when I use Ubuntu o_o Can anyone help? Already changed my thermal paste and clean the dust last week but it doesn't change anything..

[iwin2000]

If you can't feel air blowing through the fan duct when your temps are high then you have a problem. I have never had my new laptop (6550M) reach above 95C when gaming and my old laptop (5650) never reached above 80C. If you can't replace the fan yourself then you'll have to send it in to Acer if you have a warranty still.

[X e n u x]

I feel the air blowing but I think its not enough, I just benchmarked a while ago using Heaven and my 5650 reached 94 degrees and the 460m reached 103 degrees core 0 and 105 degrees core 1. I think my warranty has ended and even if I have my warranty, I can't go there cause its 6 hours drive x_x

Is there another way like updating BIOS? o.o Thanks for the reply btw