Acer Ethos AS8951G/AS5951G Owners Lounge

[cnduffey]

Can you upgrade the graphics card on the 8951G?

[Palio]

Please how can I enable wake-up the notebook from sleep mode by USB keyboard?

[aleicgrant]

Hey all. Just picked up a hardly used 8951G from ebay. Ordered 16gb of Kingston 1866 memory, have a vertex 120gb ssd on the way. I am also planning to upgrade the cpu to the 2860

what are you using for the wifi card? I know the installed is junk.

secondly, any new sources for the second hd cable. The company in Canada is sold out :-(

This laptop is EOL but still a killer in its own right

thanks

P.S. dolby 4 links all seem to be dead. can anyone kindly repost a live link

[aleicgrant]

Has any one done the Win 8 preview on the 8951? How did it go, Can you install any of the Acer apps?

[aleicgrant]

hello is this thread still alive ;-)

[Edgar83]

I hope so, i've just bought a 5951G for my girlfirend

Seems a nice machine, skyrim runs very smoothly, unfortunately acer update bios upgrade suggestion fooled me and I bricked it... what a bad moment!

Googling for it fortunately saved it (and me) with a pendrive and a fn+esc boot.

It's incredible that you power up the machine for the first time and a acer program suggest you a way to BRICK your pc!!!

[aleicgrant]

what are you all using to replace your wifi card/ I have a dual band router and bought the wifi intel 6300 but it will not turn on with the commands. I am thinking acer has white listed certain cards. help

[downloads]

Acer doesn't whitelist anything. That said if your 6300 is meant doe Lenovo it won't work- there was something different about Lenovo ones (I can't remember what it was though )

[aleicgrant]

this a half height intel direct from amazon. I get a code 10 message in the device manager. Problem is I cannot seem to turn it on with the FN F3 key.

suggestions?

[aleicgrant]

well I have tried everything to get this wifi card to work. The drivers are installed and I can see it the device manager but has the yellow exclamation.

Code 10 is the reason for it not working. If I take it out and put back the one that came with the computer, fires right up. If I put the wifi 6300 in an asus, has no problem working. I just cant figure out how to turn it on outside of the function F3......Are you sure they dont white list.