Acer TimelineX 3830/4830/5830 T/G

[WizZaRAIN]

hey everyone, i have a3830tg and for some reason today when i unplugged the cord the system turns off, i later found that my battery is not detected for some reason. it was after playing dota and i forgot to turn on the fan so it probably went up to 88 degrees C. The battery indicator doesnt even turn on as well so im really confused. I just called acer and i have a battery coming and just wondering if there was a nother solution. (do not know how to open the acer by myself, i tried reading the guide somewhere here but was scared and difficult. Thx)

[Nedemai]

hey everyone, i have a3830tg and for some reason today when i unplugged the cord the system turns off, i later found that my battery is not detected for some reason. it was after playing dota and i forgot to turn on the fan so it probably went up to 88 degrees C. The battery indicator doesnt even turn on as well so im really confused. I just called acer and i have a battery coming and just wondering if there was a nother solution. (do not know how to open the acer by myself, i tried reading the guide somewhere here but was scared and difficult. Thx)

I know when I was playing with the Extended Controller I managed to make the system think the battery wasn't installed or plugged in etc... This caused the battery indicator to blink, change color and not work at all (depending on the values entered) and more or less stop powering the system. It is possible that something similar happened for you.

I ran into an issue with the battery where the system didn't want to stay powered. I fixed this by re-flashing the firmware, since it rewrites the EC as well. Doing this might fix your issue... however if it doesn't there is a chance there is a hardware issue.

Hope this helps.

[rbl_posse]

hey everyone, i have a3830tg and for some reason today when i unplugged the cord the system turns off, i later found that my battery is not detected for some reason. it was after playing dota and i forgot to turn on the fan so it probably went up to 88 degrees C. The battery indicator doesnt even turn on as well so im really confused. I just called acer and i have a battery coming and just wondering if there was a nother solution. (do not know how to open the acer by myself, i tried reading the guide somewhere here but was scared and difficult. Thx)

Sounds like you need to just flip your battery switch. There is a switch behind the back cover that is supposed to prevent the unit from being turned on with the back cover removed.

[Yuna]

Guys, you replace i3 CPU with i5 ES CPU why? To have more performance + have 15 more degrees before shutdown.

But also i see i5-2430 people replacing CPU to i5-2540 - WHY are you doing that? that is pointless IMHO

BTW, which thermal paste of commonly available is better?
AC MX-3, MX-4, Liquid Metal?

Is there a better screen for 3830? I don't know, maybe IPS or 1600x900.

Removing that grill from bottom itself - how much degrees allow to win?

[xman099]

Installed the i5-2540M today and boy does it make a hell of a lot of a difference.. Just seeing the clock speed go up to over 3Ghz made me so happy. However, what I really didn't expect is to see the temps drop drastically after replacing the CPU and applying Arctic Silver 5 instead of the stock junk installed by Acer.

I still can't believe what I'm seeing; the temps dropped to around 25-30c when the CPU is idle. Then, I played Skyrim for 2 hours with the laptop sitting on a cooling pad without turning on the cooler's fan and running at a x26 multiplier and the CPU temps only reached a maximum of 77c whereas with the i3 the temps went up to 85c easily on a x19 multiplier.

Still, it wasn't completely sunshine and rainbows as it seems that after reapplying the thermal paste, the pressure changed and now the GPU reaches 95C under load whereas before it only got up to 80c but then again I might be pushing it a bit too far by having it overclocked to 800/1000.

Overall, the upgrade was well worth it and it was $99 well spent for the 2540M. I'm in love with this CPU. Now I can run multiple VMs like there's no tomorrow. I'll post pictures later.

Where did u get the 2540m for $99? ebay? THanks

[Yuna]

Maybe it was an auction?

[pasoleatis]

I am still trying to find out how to open it. I want to put a quad in it. (4830tg)

[Yuna]

Do not even try - +10W for heat dissipation = all time high temps and high noise

[hoyhey]

Just swapped WD Black 750gb with 256gb SSD M4 and move it to optical bay drive (4830TG) whole system now much faster but i think this reduces battery life by a bit (due to 2nd HDD)

And i encounter a problem of shutting down. Basically, when i press shut down, the screen went black (after windows shutting down... screen). The power still on with the lights indicator and some heat flowing out from the vent. I need to press and hold power button to force shut down

No issue with hibernation

[PepeCZ]

Hi all, small question WHAT ACER ASPIRE 3830TG AND MSATA? Example OCZ Nocti 60GB?
(60 GB, SATA II, MLC, TRIM, SandForce, read 280MB/s, write 260MB/s)
In my country cost this msata only 2183czk/87us, and it's good price on primary hdd only on OS and second normal hdd for data.