Acer TimelineX 3830/4830/5830 T/G

[alc027]

My Modded 1.10 Bios can be found here;

1.10 Modded

*** DISCLAIMER *** - I claim no responsibility whatsoever for whatever issue may arise using these files.
I have tested and verified that all of these files work on a 3830TG-6864 Acer TimelineX laptop.

Mileage may vary.

USE AT OWN RISK!!!

You get three flavors to choose from.

Menus - unlocks menus and doesn't touch the vbios
Menus VGA 0.85v - GPU at full load will only reach 0.85v
Menus VGA 0.80v - GPU at full load will only reach 0.80v

As far as I know the VGA mods should work on a 4830TG now... I do not have one to test on however so please let me know once again.

Hi Nedemai,

Thank you very much for this modded BIOS. I'm keen to undervolt and hopefully get closer to solving the heat problem.

I have a 3830TG-2414G12 currently on 1.04. Are there any differences between my model and yours that would prevent your mod working on my machine?

The official 1.10 version has a EC file with it aswell. Is it worthwhile flashing the official package before your mod to gain the benefit from the EC update?

I read there are often problems with trying to rollback Insyde BIOSes to older versions. If I need to return the computer to Acer in the future I will of course have to flash an official 1.10 (3-year warranty included cos the line is about to be deleted ). Do you imagine this would incur the same problems?

General questions to the community:

Do you recommend flashing from within windows using InsydeFlash or from a bootable disk using Flash it? Why one over the other?

Lastly, will the Insyde Crisis disk technique work with our machines? If so what does the filename format need to be for the official binary (P4LJ0110.bin (default) or something else)?

I have tried searching for forum but the function seems to be broken ("invalid_search_string" on every query).

Thanks for your assistance.

Alex

[codyrocco]

I'm not using the built in Windows copy dialogue to measure the speed, since it can be wildly inaccurate. I'm using teracopy to measure the speeds, which is much more accurate, and I'm getting 50MB/s through both.

as i know, teracopy (and windows commander) are bypassing some windows api, write caching for example.
let's make some test using something more basically - a portable linux distro and hdparm -tT /dev/sd_ (sdb if second drive, sdc if third). will give you a clear result for read speed
otherwise, some extensive tests within windows, using hd tune (pro)?

[reflex99]

Randomish question:

What are currently the best video drivers for the 3830TG?

I tried the most recent 301.42, and as others report, they are rather glitchy. (also low power states would not properly engage, but that is another issue entirely)

I was using 295.73 before, with less than stellar (albeit, non-gltichy) results.

Now i am back to 267.21 (latest from the ACER site), for no particular reason. Problem here is that many games do not run well with them (namely BF3)

So if anyone has a suggestion as to the 'best' nvidia driver, please let me know.

Thanks

[CoLDxFiRE]

Randomish question:

What are currently the best video drivers for the 3830TG?

I tried the most recent 301.42, and as others report, they are rather glitchy. (also low power states would not properly engage, but that is another issue entirely)

I was using 295.73 before, with less than stellar (albeit, non-gltichy) results.

Now i am back to 267.21 (latest from the ACER site), for no particular reason. Problem here is that many games do not run well with them (namely BF3)

So if anyone has a suggestion as to the 'best' nvidia driver, please let me know.

Thanks

I've been using 296.10 for a while and have never experinced any problems. I play lots of Skyrim and Halo 2 but I dunno about BF3.

[reflex99]

I've been using 296.10 for a while and have never experinced any problems. I play lots of Skyrim and Halo 2 but I dunno about BF3.

what about battery life?

have you noticed any differences between drivers?

[CoLDxFiRE]

what about battery life?

have you noticed any differences between drivers?

Since I use the laptop for some heavy work, I have it plugged in most of the time. But on occassion when I take it with me to school it lasts about 5-7hrs browsing the internet and stuff.

If the battery drains very fast when unplugged, restart the laptop AFTER you unplug the AC adapter. It seems to work for me.

I didn't notice much of a difference between drivers though regarding battery life.

[pasoleatis]

You could get more than 9 hours if you make a power plan in which you do not allow the cpu to consume more than 5% of the total power.

[reflex99]

Since I use the laptop for some heavy work, I have it plugged in most of the time. But on occassion when I take it with me to school it lasts about 5-7hrs browsing the internet and stuff.

If the battery drains very fast when unplugged, restart the laptop AFTER you unplug the AC adapter. It seems to work for me.

I didn't notice much of a difference between drivers though regarding battery life.

I noticed this too.

If i just uplug it and keep using it, i will get about 4.5Hrs on a charge.

If i unplug, restart, and then use it, I can get like 7. weird stuff man.

[xenago]

Does this work on a 5830TG?

[Kallogan]

New Acer slim line is out : Aspire V5 with ULV dual core and Nvidia 620M GT.

Starts at 399 euros with a 17W entry level pentium and intel HD

Very good price but the 620M GT isn't a monster though, barely on par with the 540M GT

Acer: 15,6"-Ultraslim-Serie Aspire V5 ab 400 Euro - Notebookcheck.com News